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"Huh?" Anyway, Kushina's question was very valid. Haori was speechless.
In fact, before they did this, Haori didn't think he and Kushina could get away with it. The nature of this act was quite serious. It was equivalent to stealing national secrets, and it was the most confidential thing.
For example, just for example, they could transform and sneak into this office without alerting anyone, and steal some of the jutsu from the Book of Seals, and then leave safely. Even so, the Hokage would be able to trace this matter sooner or later...
Instead of doing that, it was better to be straightforward like this. This was actually "confessing and receiving leniency."
(ShixT9: The funny meme about stealing a bike and asking god for forgiveness after)
Besides, that kind of infiltration was impossible.
So Haori was carrying the courageous spirit of "spending the rest of my life in prison" during this operation.
"…Forget it. Anyway, we can't turn back now. Things have already gone this far." Kushina had already figured it out on her own, without needing Haori's explanation.
"This scroll is sealed in class. Ordinary people can't just open it, or they will be hit… No, it's not a seal. What is this? A curse?"
Kushina didn't rush to open the Book of Seals. Instead, she began to study the seal on the outside of the Book of Seals.
"Forget it. Anyway, it's not too hard for me."
"Release!"
The saying goes, "All is in one, and one is in all."
This is the legendary "All laws are one." A sealing master like Kushina is very difficult to challenge. This is a qualitative improvement over quantity. Ordinary people can hardly reach this level.
Someone like Haori also learned a lot of sealing techniques from Kushina. If you just talk about the number of sealing techniques, he masters a good number, but he still has a long way to go in terms of mastering them and being able to use them effectively.
After releasing the seal, Kushina immediately unfolded the Book of Seals and said quickly, "Hurry up and look. Remember as much as you can."
Without Kushina's reminder, Haori was already staring intently at the Book of Seals with wide eyes.
If you asked him what jutsu he was most interested in here, the first one was definitely the space-time jutsu, Flying Thunder God… So he skipped that jutsu.
That's right, he was right to do so. Haori naturally didn't expect to be able to record a powerful, complex, and difficult-to-learn S-rank jutsu like Flying Thunder God in one go.
No one knew when the Hokage would discover the situation here. Haori couldn't spend all his time on this one jutsu.
He could only memorize this stuff in his head, and he couldn't leave any written records.
In fact, his guess was right.
As Kushina broke the seal outside the Book of Seals, in the Sarutobi residence in Konoha, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was already asleep, suddenly sat up in bed.
"Hiruzen, what's wrong?" The Hokage's wife was awakened by him.
(ShixT9: Didn't know he got a wife)
"Someone has broken the seal on the Book of Seals!"
The Hokage said this while quickly putting on his clothes and rushing out of the bedroom.
"Hokage-sama!"
As the Third Hokage just came out of the room, an ANBU ninja appeared in front of him.
"Dispatch personnel immediately. Surround the Hokage's office building."
"Yes!… Third Hokage, what happened?"
"Don't ask. Go do it now!"
The Hokage gave his order and then rushed toward the office building.
At this moment, the Hokage realized the shortcomings of his own jutsu. If he had a real-time surveillance jutsu, he would know what was happening in the Hokage's office right now, instead of being in the dark and only knowing that someone had broken the seal on the Book of Seals… The only thing he could do now was pray that the Book of Seals hadn't been stolen.
Because of this incident, the Hokage decided to invent a surveillance jutsu like that used by witches, Hmm, how about calling it "Telescope Jutsu"?
Such a jutsu would be critical at key moments, such as now. If the Hokage had this jutsu, he could immediately know what was happening inside the office. Normally, he could use it for peeping... Ahem, wrong, for surveillance. To monitor Konoha's safety.
The Third Hokage, wearing his combat uniform, quickly ran through the streets of Konoha. Behind him and on the roofs on both sides, followed the Hokage's direct ANBU.
In less than ten minutes, they had surrounded the Hokage's office building.
At that moment, inside the Hokage's office, Kushina suddenly said, "Haori, we're surrounded."
Haori replied, "I know, Teacher Kushina."
He had also noticed. Although his perception ability wasn't as good as Kushina's, so many people suddenly appearing, as long as he wasn't an idiot, he would know that the Hokage had brought people here…
However, while speaking, his eyes never left the Book of Seals. Maybe he could memorize a few more jutsu in these one or two minutes.
The commotion outside naturally caught the attention of the ninjas guarding the Hokage's office building. One ninja quickly came out, and when he saw that the leader was the Third Hokage, he relaxed.
"Hokage-sama, what happened?"
The Hokage silently glanced at him. Shouldn't he be the one asking that?
"Has anyone been in my office recently?"
Since the guard force was intact, the Hokage was temporarily relieved. It meant that the Book of Seals probably hadn't been taken.
"That… Kushina-sama came here a while ago." The ninja didn't understand what had happened to cause such a big commotion, but he quickly told him what he knew.
"Kushina?!" Hearing this name, the Hokage was surprised, but not entirely surprised. If it were Kushina, she might really have done something like peeking at the Book of Seals.
Of course, if you had to describe the Hokage's feelings at this time, he was a bit more reassured than before. After all, the Book of Seals being looked at by Kushina was much better than being looked at by some unknown person or enemy.
But reassured or not, Kushina had done something quite serious this time.
"Did she leave?" The Hokage asked.
"No, Kushina-sama came here less than 20 minutes ago. She hasn't left yet."
Hearing this, the Hokage didn't reply but directly walked into the office building. But since he knew the culprit was Kushina, he didn't bring too many people inside.
The Third Hokage walked in front, with two ANBU ninjas behind him. After reaching the third floor, he pushed open the door to the office without hesitation.
The first thing the Hokage saw were the four ANBU ninjas lying unconscious on the floor. Then, he saw Haori still sprawled over the Book of Seals. Finally, his gaze shifted to Kushina's face.
"Uh, Third Hokage…",Kushina gave an awkward smile. "It's already so late. Have you eaten yet?"
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