When the unmarked dossier cart was stopped, Gen did not ask for it to be opened immediately.
Uchiha Jun could not understand this.
"We've caught the cart. Why aren't we looking inside?"
Gen said, "Record everything first."
Who had pushed the cart.
Where the cart had come from.
Which stretch of corridor it had passed through.
At which registration point the record had gone blank.
Who had seen it.
Who had stopped it.
All of this had to be clearly documented first.
Otherwise, once the dossier cart was opened, Root could steer the issue toward what was inside.
If there was nothing in the cart, they would say the Uchiha were making a fuss over nothing.
If it contained incomplete documents, they would say the documents had been switched after the cart was opened.
So the first step was not to inspect the contents.
It was to pin down the route.
Crow quickly understood this.
Crow personally had the Anbu reconstruct the dossier cart's route.
The corridor outside the Sealed Records Room.
The auxiliary transfer point.
The old logistics passage.
The registration point with the blank record.
Any farther, and it could pass beyond the area directly monitored around the main sealed archive.
This route did not require opening the Sealed Records Room's main door.
But it allowed access to the dossiers outside awaiting sorting.
Gen studied the route map and said quietly, "Danzo didn't touch the Sealed Records Room door."
Fugaku picked up the thought.
"He used the transfer point outside the Sealed Records Room."
That statement was entered into the record.
The old Root Mark on the dossier cart was also copied with a rubbing.
Crow confirmed that it was not an official transfer order from the Hokage Office.
But it bore the hallmarks of Root's internal passage