Senju Hashirama's residence.
"Madara, do you think I don't have much time left?"
Hashirama suddenly asked.
Madara Uchiha's body stiffened as he turned his head and asked unhappily,
"Why would you ask something like that?"
Hashirama had always been in robust health, so Madara did not understand why he would say such a thing.
"Don't be so serious." Hashirama smiled. "Although you've nursed my body back to health, there will still come a day when my lifespan runs out."
"I was just thinking... after I'm gone, will you feel lonely?"
"Why are you getting so sentimental?" Madara Uchiha said irritably. "Do you think I've never died before?!"
"Exactly, Hashirama." Izuna Uchiha chimed in. "We're people who have died once already. That sentimental stuff doesn't work on us!"
He and his elder brother had truly died and come back to life, while the Senju brothers had never been killed.
Hashirama: "..."
The perfectly good atmosphere had been ruined.
"Haha, that's true." Hashirama scratched his head with a smile. "Could you tell me what the world after death is like?"
"Once you die, you have no consciousness." Madara Uchiha explained in a deep voice, "It's like falling into a deep sleep. After being brought back through Impure World Reincarnation, your memories remain at the moment before death."
Tobirama Senju quietly pricked up his ears. So this was what the world after death was like.
He had thought there would be a place like the Underworld.
Now, it seemed that was not the case. Once you died, you were truly dead.
"I see..." Hashirama looked disappointed. "I had thought I might be able to see Mito after I died."
"Heh. If you die, I'll use the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive you."
Madara Uchiha sneered.
"I won't let