"...Since you want to learn my Jutsu, from now on, you are my disciple."
Tobirama had been holding back for a while and finally found an angle to regain his dignity.
"No."
Hikari refused without thinking, "How about this, I'll teach you a few Jutsu too, and we can consider it an exchange."
"What a joke, what Jutsu do you have that you can teach me?"
Tobirama scoffed.
"Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Kagutsuchi."
"...I don't have a Sharingan, are you delirious and talking nonsense?"
Tobirama was speechless.
"Then don't blame me, you're the one who won't learn, it's not that I won't teach."
Hikari spread her small hands.
"Don't be afraid, technology changes destiny. Didn't I say it last time? Nidaime(2nd)-sama, if you really want it, you can have Orochimaru transplant two Sharingan for you..."
"Silence!"
Tobirama interrupted Bai Mo, "If you dare to put a Sharingan into my body, I'll... I'll... I'll use Chrono Seal to completely seal my and my elder brother's souls, so you can never Edo Tensei us again!"
"Uh, what does that have to do with me?"
Hashirama, squatting on the ground, tilted his head.
"The price of Chrono Seal is that one's own soul must also be sealed, but Nidaime(2nd)-sama only wants the price, it needs to include a target, so he was planning to seal Shodai(1st)-sama as well."
Orochimaru kindly explained.
"Tobirama, that won't do. I don't want to be sealed incidentally by you for no reason."
Hashirama shook his head.
"Elder brother, do you still want to be Edo Tensei'd by Orochimaru and toyed with? Have you forgotten what you said before?
Didn't you say that this Jutsu of mine desecrates the souls of the deceased and requires sacrificing living offerings, and is not a good Jutsu?"
Tobirama was already despairing of his elder brother constantly undermining him.
"Oh right, speaking of Edo Tensei sacrifices, I happen to want to do an experiment. Orochimaru, come here for a moment."
Bai Mo took out a scroll from his person and placed it on the ground.
The Senju brothers stopped bickering and quietly watched what Bai Mo intended to do.
"Because White Zetsu have no souls, I previously used my ability to restore White Zetsu that had been dead for a period of time. I want to see if White Zetsu can still be restored by me after being used as a sacrifice for Edo Tensei.
If it can, then Edo Tensei can truly become a permanent Ninjutsu with no cost."
Bai Mo stated his idea.
"Ability? What ability?"
Tobirama and Hashirama didn't know what ability Bai Mo was referring to, so they could only continue to watch.
"This is..."
Orochimaru took the scroll and saw a 'three' (三) written on it, and his expression immediately darkened.
"This is Third Hokage's cells that I stole from Konoha."
The White Zetsu responsible for liaison emerged from underground.
"Third Hokage? The Monkey? He's dead? Wasn't he alive and well a while ago?"
Tobirama and Hashirama exchanged glances, shocked and confused.
"This is thanks to both of your good granddaughters, my good teammate Tsunade.
Bai Mo-kun told her about the Ōtsutsuki threat, asking her to notify Bai Mo-kun as soon as she found someone arriving, but she had her own ideas and didn't trust us."
Orochimaru's expression returned to normal; his indifference to life quickly made him accept his teacher's death. Besides, his Konoha Crush Plan was originally intended for the Third Hokage to die in battle.
"..."
After hearing Orochimaru's explanation, the Senju brothers glanced at Bai Mo and collectively sighed.
"After this is over, is there a chance to go to Konoha? I want to go educate little Tsuna with Tobirama."
Hashirama sighed deeply again.
"Yes, it feels like she's inherited all of my and my elder brother's flaws. She doesn't trust when she should, and lacks foresight when she needs it."
Tobirama was also quite speechless about Tsunade.
"Don't rush, both of you. Since Bai Mo-kun wants me to use my teacher for this experiment, we can just ask him."
Orochimaru said, opening the scroll.
— With Edo Tensei around, Detective Conan couldn't be filmed in the Ninja World at all.
Wherever there's a murder, just Edo Tensei the deceased and ask them.
Unless the deceased was killed instantly, and didn't even know who killed them.
"White Zetsu, is this all you brought?"
Orochimaru looked at the opened scroll, where something covered by a white cloth lay quietly, and glanced at the White Zetsu on the ground.
"What, not enough? There's no way, to avoid being discovered, I could only steal such inconspicuous and useless things."
White Zetsu felt very innocent.
"What is it?"
Uchiha Hikari curiously stretched her neck and stood on tiptoes, wanting to see.
"Don't look, even though it's covered, you won't be able to see."
Bai Mo raised his hand to block Hikari's eyes.
He hadn't expected the resourceful White Zetsu to directly remove the Third Hokage's body's 'special part'.
However, it seemed that according to White Zetsu's explanation, there really was no problem.
After all, out of respect for the deceased, when the Third Hokage was buried, no outrageous eccentric would suddenly pull down his pants to see if his 'special part' was still there.
Missing a hand, a leg, or even a piece of flesh would be easily discovered.
Only this particular place.
Even if someone genuinely thought that area looked a bit shriveled, they would only think that the Third Hokage was old and past his prime, a small acorn.
They wouldn't actually raise such an absurd suspicion at a memorial service where the deceased is to be honored.
"Edo Tensei!"
Orochimaru held his teacher's 'special part' in his palm and performed Edo Tensei.
As one of the two White Zetsu brought by Orochimaru began to scream, Hiruzen Sarutobi was successfully Edo Tensei'd.
"Edo Tensei?"
The Edo Tensei'd Third Hokage looked at his hand with some confusion.
"Teacher, we want to confirm who killed you."
Orochimaru walked up to the Third Hokage.
"..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked up at Orochimaru but did not answer.
Silence, hesitation.
"It was Boruto, possessed and controlled by Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, right?"
Bai Mo spoke.
"...Possessed by an Ōtsutsuki? So that's how it was? No wonder that child."
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed.
After sighing, Hiruzen Sarutobi remembered what Tsunade had told him and Jiraiya, and now seeing Bai Mo, he felt a bit ashamed.
"In a situation with such unequal information, we really should have chosen to trust. I agreed to Tsunade's decision at the time, so my death is somewhat my own fault."
Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly stopped there, walked in front of Bai Mo, and immediately performed a dogeza, "I humbly request, sir, to overlook past grievances and help Tsunade, help Konoha!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi knew very well that his death would definitely make Tsunade, who had just recovered not long ago, fall into despair.
And even if Tsunade didn't despair, facing Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, who could absorb Ninjutsu and instantly kill him, as well as another Ōtsutsuki who was mentioned to appear, Konoha's current fighting strength would be no match.
"Who's this? The old man looks so pitiful."
Uchiha Hikari curiously walked to Bai Mo's side and asked.
"Hiruzen Sarutobi, Konoha's Third Village Chief."
"Sarutobi, oh, then keep kneeling."
Uchiha Hikari immediately showed a look of disdain.
Isn't this the Sarutobi clan that sealed her along with the Senju?
How could they be so pathetic?
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