"Gen, you mean Uchiha Obito and the others' plan—"
However, while hurrying along the road, Senju Hashirama still could not help opening his mouth to ask a question.
"Is it either killing everyone, or creating some kind of world where everyone sinks into a genjutsu?"
"Hmph, truly worthy of being an evil little brat of the Uchiha."
Senju Tobirama cursed low from the side.
"This kind of extreme method is indeed just like Uchiha Madara!"
"…"
Kitagawa Gen came back to his senses. He could not help tilting his head and glancing at the resentful-faced Senju Tobirama.
"I am not sure either; the information he gave was too little, but I think the information he obtained most likely came from the stone tablet."
"About the stone tablet? It seems that Madara did mention it back then."
Senju Hashirama touched his chin and began recalling those years.
"He seemed to have said that, besides unifying the entire Shinobi World, there was also a new method. It was just that I—"
"You weren't interested again, right?!"
Senju Tobirama could not hold it in. He had never imagined that his big brother could be this unreliable.
"You bastard, what other terrible things did you even get involved in? Why were you that stupid?"
"Hey, I said before I didn't have the Sharingan, and I wasn't interested. After all, I already had Konohagakure."
"But you still can't just ignore everything!"
"How did I ignore anything? I said that back then my heart had only Konohagakure."
"You—"
Seeing these two brothers about to start quarreling again, Kitagawa Gen could only helplessly smooth things over.
"All right, all right, it's nothing serious. Once Sasuke's eye problem is resolved, we'll all know."
"Hmph!"
Senju Tobirama gave Kitagawa Gen face, and Senju Hashirama also pressed his lips together, too lazy to keep arguing.
Instead, Kitagawa Gen touched his chin and spoke.
"Actually, when considering this, why not think about whether the Sage of Six Paths really didn't like Asura that much?"
"…"
The two brothers, who had still been puffed up with anger, stopped immediately upon hearing this. Senju Hashirama even covered his forehead.
"There you go again. When did the Sage of Six Paths ever say he disliked Asura?"
"Otherwise, why is it that other people get a stone tablet, but you two get a piece of tree bark?"
Kitagawa Gen blinked, then thought for a moment and continued.
"Moreover, according to Uchiha Madara's words, that tablet even recorded a method to save the world, yet your piece of tree bark advised you to side with Indra—"
"A child who is easy to like doesn't need too many words!"
Senju Tobirama could not endure it anymore and immediately cut off Kitagawa Gen's sentence.
"Besides, if we really want to talk about it, the Sage of Six Paths also had a problem. Why did he let Indra and Asura fight for so many years?!"
"This…"
Senju Hashirama's expression became somewhat awkward. Was this the kind of thing one could just say?
"It's not really within the scope of what we should discuss, right?"
Kitagawa Gen could not help blinking too, but Senju Tobirama acted as if he had not seen that at all. He kept going with a cold face.
"Hmph, I have a suspicion—could it be that the Sage of Six Paths did it on purpose?"
"Hiss—are you crazy?"
"I'm not crazy. Don't we all say the Sage of Six Paths is all-knowing and all-powerful? Then could it be that he foresaw the current situation?"
"…"
"For example, that Ōtsutsuki Genshiki—his power is something ordinary people cannot rival!"
"…"
"But through a thousand years of battles, the Shinobi World tempered a tenacious will and the courage to face powerful enemies!"
"…"
"In addition, with a genius like Gen, and after Ōtsutsuki Genshiki appeared, he even stepped into what that guy called 'evolution.'"
"…"
"You tell me—could this be the reason why the Sage of Six Paths allowed Indra and Asura to fight to the death?"
The more Senju Tobirama spoke, the brighter his eyes became; he even grew excited.
Originally, he merely wanted to find a reason that the Sage of Six Paths did not leave anything to Asura, to prevent Kitagawa Gen from continuing to speak nonsense.
But at this moment, he felt as if he had touched the truth!
And his reasoning was clear, his logic smooth. Even Senju Hashirama was stunned at this moment.
Because thinking it over carefully, it seemed to make some sense?
'Why does this sound so familiar?'
Kitagawa Gen instead sucked in a cold breath; he felt as though he had said something like this before.
No, he absolutely had not said it!
This was all something the evil old Senju had come up with himself!
How did he dare to slander the Sage of Six Paths like this?!
"Don't speak nonsense. It could get people killed."
Kitagawa Gen immediately interrupted Senju Tobirama, speaking cautiously.
"The older a person gets, the smaller their mind becomes. Look at the Third Hokage. The Sage of Six Paths lived over a thousand years—his mind is probably even smaller."
"Che. Rumor says he died long ago."
Senju Tobirama let out a cold snort, but he also cautiously swept his gaze around with the corner of his eye.
Senju Hashirama, however, was a bit speechless. The older a person gets, the smaller their mind becomes?
The two of them… weren't they even older than that little monkey, the Third?
"And I've never felt he did anything wrong."
Whether it was sincere or not, Senju Tobirama sighed and continued speaking.
"If it weren't for that thousand-year blood war, how could shinobi possibly have mastered the use of chakra?"
"How could they have the combat skills they have now?"
"How could they have such will and conviction?"
"How could they possibly dare to face an Ōtsutsuki Genshiki—a 'God'—head-on?!"
"…"
Kitagawa Gen and Senju Hashirama both stopped speaking, but Senju Tobirama clenched his fist and continued.
"So although the Sage of Six Paths appears cold and emotionless, even extremely cruel, his love for the Shinobi World is genuine!"
"At certain times, only by using such cold methods can the future become better. As expected, I still need to keep learning."
"…"
Senju Hashirama was completely speechless, yet he could not refute it. According to Tobirama's logic, everything was far too reasonable!
He just felt that Tobirama was treating himself as the Sage of Six Paths.
'Or could it be that Tobirama's personality is somewhat similar to that of the Sage of Six Paths?'
While Senju Hashirama fell into silence, Kitagawa Gen also looked around silently on both sides, wanting to see whether thunder would suddenly strike him from the sky.
Fortunately, such a thing did not happen, but he really admired Senju Tobirama.
Just to make up for his own clan, he dared to say anything and dared to think anything…
'Oh no!'
Suddenly, Kitagawa Gen's expression became even stranger, because he suddenly remembered that Ōtsutsuki Urashiki had descended.
'And I am going to change accounts as well—doesn't this even more perfectly fulfill Senju Tobirama's words…'
While they were hurrying along, the Land of Water itself was far from peaceful.
The Six-Tails Jinchūriki—this was a target of the Akatsuki.
The Three-Tails was now the Mizukage; even though he was almost equivalent to having no real authority anymore, there were still layers of protection around him.
But the Six-Tails was different. He was not a Kage!
Especially since he was not inside Kirigakure. Even if he had not left the Land of Water, this still gave the Akatsuki an excellent opportunity.
"As expected, it should be just ahead."
Within the dense mist of the Land of Water, Kisame looked at a village in front of them and spoke indifferently.
"That kid wants to leave the Land of Water, but he does not have any good place to settle. Either it is the Konohagakure alliance, or it is an enemy nation. Wanting to go to a small country is also not easy."
"What a pitiful fellow. If he wanted to run, he should have run earlier."
Biwa Jūzō shook his head. He was a Kirigakure missing-nin himself and could be considered "very experienced."
"That's right."
Raiga also nodded along. He let out a cold laugh.
"He wants to leave yet doesn't have the resolve or courage. In the end he is stuck in a dilemma. The Jinchūriki doesn't seem as smart as imagined."
"Speaking of which, how are we going to handle our Fourth Mizukage?"
Suddenly, Biwa Jūzō could not help asking a question.
"He still has the Three-Tails inside him. If he is not handled properly, the situation will most likely not look good."
"There will naturally be someone to deal with him. After all, our mission is only that brat Utakata."
Kisame shook his head. Now he upheld the belief that as long as it was not his job, he could not be bothered with it.
"Besides, we already do not get much in stipends. You two are both dead—why are you playing with your lives?"
"You're just not qualified to play with your life, right?"
Biwa Jūzō looked at Kisame with a cold face, while Raiga's eyes revealed murderous intent.
"I think it would be better if you also died and came to become an Impure World Reincarnation with us. That way you wouldn't have to worry about the problem of death."
"Let's just carry out the mission first."
Kisame simply shook his head. He truly did not want to discuss this matter at all now.
"And we'd better move a bit faster. Don't forget that previous chakra eruption. I keep having a bad feeling."
Kisame and the others were originally in Kirigakure, so they naturally could sense that powerful and strange chakra eruption.
Even if they could not perceive the Ōtsutsuki traits within it, that chakra was enough to make them feel uneasy.
"We really should hurry."
Biwa Jūzō nodded, and Raiga could not help letting out a sigh.
"Honestly—ever since that Kitagawa Gen appeared, the monsters of the Shinobi World have just been increasing…"
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