"Teacher?!"
Ōnoki's pupils abruptly contracted, and a voice filled with disbelief escaped his throat.
"That's right. He looks like Lord Second, but we couldn't confirm whether it was really him from that distance."
"The Third Raikage and Second Mizukage were also spotted."
"Huh?!"
A abruptly straightened up, looked at the Iwagakure shinobi before him, and asked solemnly.
"Are you telling the truth?"
The shinobi struggled somewhat under the pressure of facing a Kage, but Tsunade reached out to shield him.
"Lord Raikage, if I'm not mistaken, the reports about those individuals should all be true."
Tsunade spoke at an unhurried pace, and everyone present could hear her clearly.
"The truth is, my great-uncle secretly researched a forbidden technique back then."
"Its name is Impure World Reincarnation."
"It can summon the dead from the Pure Land through a form of summoning."
Tsunade's great-uncle... Right, the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.
A shinobi renowned as the Shinobi World's Godspeed, with an extraordinary intellect and mastery of ninjutsu.
"How could a technique like that exist? Isn't that a desecration of the dead?"
Ōnoki looked at Tsunade and demanded in a somewhat hoarse voice.
Behind him, Kurotsuchi gently patted his back to ease his distress.
Seriously, my great-uncle developed the technique, but I'm the one who has to take the blame.
A trace of helplessness flashed through Tsunade's eyes. Research into this technique had clearly been halted back then.
Why had it suddenly appeared in the Shinobi World now, and on Obito's side, at that?
Could a spy in Konoha have stolen the forbidden techniques in the Scroll of Seals and even perfected Impure World Reincarnation?
"My great-uncle stopped researching that forbidden technique when he was only halfway through."
"From the looks of it, the forbidden technique must have been leaked and perfected."
Tsunade's tightly