“Even though the surgical tools look far larger than the bag that holds them.”
A question mark might as well have appeared over everyone’s head.
It kills people, says it’s sorry—then operates on the corpse?
Buddy.
Are you kidding?
Someone call the police.
That’s desecration of a body.
The file keeps scrolling.
“Corpses operated on by SCP-049 return to a mobile state. These instances are designated Anomalous Object 049-1. 049-1 is not a resurrection. 049-1 has no capacity for thought. It is, in effect, a walking corpse. Once it receives an order from SCP-049, however, 049-1 becomes highly active and carries that order out. SCP-049 typically describes 049-1 as an imperfect cure.”
Mouths twitch across the ninja world.
“What the hell? It kills them, then brings the body back with surgery—and *controls* it? What kind of ninjutsu is that?”
“Why does this write-up feel so wrong?”
“Resurrecting a corpse… why does that name sound familiar? Isn’t that a jutsu?”
**Konoha**
The Third is certain now.
The Plague Doctor is not a force for good.
He is starting to think the Anomalous Containment Facility isn’t either.
He stares at the screen, brow heavy.
Other people might not recognize a jutsu that raises the dead.
He does.
He still doesn’t know why this so-called Plague Doctor has something so similar, or what they want.
That doesn’t stop him from deciding what they are.
**Otogakure**
Orochimaru watches the introduction, a strange smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
Looked at this way, the Plague Doctor might make a like-minded partner.
He is very interested in that ninjutsu.