Uchiha Minamoto raised a hand and pressed it down slightly, his manner brooking no argument.
"I trust the village.
"I believe that even if Lord Third, Elder Mitokado, and Elder Utatane shared a deep friendship with the missing-nin Shimura Danzō, they would never commit the disgraceful act of using forbidden jutsu to resurrect him.
"However, many of the mysterious Masked Man's abilities do indeed bear an uncanny resemblance to Shimura Danzō's. You could even call him a more powerful Shimura Danzō."
Mitokado Homura still refused to believe it. "Words aren't proof! You-"
"Elder Mitokado, look at you. Getting worked up again."
Uchiha Minamoto took out a Sealing Scroll and used the [Unsealing Technique] to retrieve its contents.
"I have an actual 'witness' right here!"
Poof!
A cloud of smoke rose.
A deathly pale corpse appeared in the Hokage's office.
"I call this creature 'White Zetsu.'"
Uchiha Minamoto displayed White Zetsu's corpse to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others.
"It possesses human intelligence and can use an extremely sophisticated [Transformation Technique], imitating everything about another person, from appearance to chakra.
"More importantly, this creature's cellular composition is extremely similar to the First's!"
White Zetsu's corpse lay right before them.
However much Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other two disbelieved any connection between the "mysterious Masked Man" and Shimura Danzō, they fell silent now.
Just look at White Zetsu's utterly pallid skin.
Anyone with eyes could see its connection to Hashirama cells at a glance.
There was no other "cool-toned pale complexion" like it in the entire shinobi world!
But the "surprise gifts" Uchiha Minamoto had brought went far beyond this.
"Besides what I just mentioned, that mysterious Masked Man also possesses a very special kind of Space-Time Ninjutsu.
"His body can freely shift between tangible and intangible, allowing him to ignore virtually any