When the Fake Meeting Notice was brought back to the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked grim.
This time, it was not a classified file.
Nor an orphan placement register.
Nor a logistics authorization slip.
It was only a summons.
But it named Shisui Uchiha.
And it invoked the authority of the Hokage Building.
In the Small Conference Room, the original summons lay on a sheet of sealing paper.
Beside it was the Uchiha's internal filing record.
Beside that was the Hokage Office's official register.
With the three laid side by side, the truth was already clear.
The register contained no such summons.
The Hokage Office had no record of initiating it.
The so-called "Hokage Building Special Affairs Records Group" had no corresponding reference number for that day, either.
After reading it, Danzo merely remarked blandly.
"Paperwork is chaotic after a disaster. Errors like this are hardly surprising."
Standing outside the door, Uchiha Toru nearly laughed aloud.
An error?
A summons with no reference number, an irregular signature, and vague contents, specifically naming Shisui, had been delivered to the Clan District.
If the filing system had not just been established, Shisui would have gone to the Side Building tomorrow.
And that could be called an error?
Uchiha Gen did not laugh.
He knew why Danzo had said that.
As long as this was reduced to "paperwork chaos," it would never become "someone using the Hokage's authority to summon Shisui alone."
Once the seriousness of the issue was played down, the investigation would never reach its true source.
Uchiha Gen pushed the filing record to the center of the table.
"This isn't an ordinary forged letter."
Mitokado Homura looked at him.
"How can you tell?"
"An ordinary forged letter only needs to deceive its recipient."
Uchiha Gen looked at the summons.
"This