Is Mind-to-Mind Communication Really a Necessary Ability for Humans?

After leaving the Hyuga House and saying goodbye to Neji and Hyuga Hiashi, who would probably be too excited or worried to sleep all night, Daren Yi returned home and slept quite soundly himself.

Early in the morning, the computer in his bedroom chimed with a "beep beep beep" notification for a new message. Daren Yi leaned over to take a look and discovered that he had received an invitation from Neji Hyuga on The House of the 'Shamate' Tribe.

Not only had he invited Daren Yi, but he had also invited many familiar friends to gather at the Hyuga House. It was essentially an attempt to organize an offline meetup.

On The House of the 'Shamate' Tribe, the invitees were posting in a discussion group, eagerly discussing the matter!

"Has anyone gotten in touch with Sasuke-kun? Is he coming? —Posted by: My forehead isn't big, it's a sign of intelligence"

"No idea. Sasuke's situation is hard to say! But I've already gotten up and started putting on makeup. Whether Sasuke-kun shows up today or not, I need to be battle-ready in advance. I'll definitely be the prettiest flower at the entire gathering today! —Posted by: I don't want to be a pig, I just want to be a blooming flower"

"Troublesome, troublesome, so troublesome! —Posted by: In my next life, I want to be a rock, completely motionless"

"Is someone treating us to a meal? Great! —Posted by: What's wrong with me eating just a little more? Being fat is not a crime"

"Don't worry, I'll bring Sasuke with me! —Posted by: Ancestor of Shamate"

Daren Yi made a post as well. The discussion group suddenly fell silent, then exploded as a flood of posts rapidly refreshed.

"Ahhh! Ancestor of Shamate is going to descend in person this time too? What a surprise! —Posted by: Konoha's Dog Shadow"

"Cheer! Rejoice! The supreme Ancestor of Shamate shall descend today—my youth is burning! —Posted by: Burning Blooming Youth"

"Ancestor of Shamate is bringing Sasuke along? Uh, that's rather different from what I imagined! —Posted by: In my next life, I want to be a rock, completely motionless"

"Although I've never revealed my identity, don't you all already know? My mother was an Uchiha who married out of the clan. Isn't it perfectly reasonable for me to take in a lonely, helpless Uchiha orphan now?

Oh, right. I also want to bring my girlfriend, Izumi Uchiha, along today. She's an Uchiha Clan survivor too. You don't mind, do you? —Posted by: Ancestor of Shamate"

Daren Yi did not mind letting others know Izumi Uchiha's identity. After all, everything he did was simply for fun, not to bind himself with rules and restrictions of his own making.

At that moment, the atmosphere in the discussion group became a little strange. Only after quite some time did someone timidly ask:

"Does Lord Third Hokage and the village know about this? —Posted by: My forehead isn't big, it's a sign of intelligence"

"They probably don't! You'll all help me keep it secret, right? —Posted by: Ancestor of Shamate"

Daren Yi imagined the group of youngsters on the other side of the screen all wearing troubled, conflicted expressions, and a delightedly malicious smile could not help appearing on his face.

A good mood did not vanish into thin air. It merely transferred between people.

This early in the morning, Daren Yi was already in an excellent mood. Teasing and messing with characters from the original story whom he had once liked was a pleasure every transmigrator needed to experience. It was simply too enjoyable!

He stepped out of his bedroom and knocked on the neighboring door. Izumi Uchiha had previously merged her entire Mind World into Daren Yi's Mind World. Although no major problems had arisen, she had been mentally exhausted and gone to rest early last night.

A moment later, the neatly dressed girl opened the door and came out, complaining, "We can clearly communicate directly through our minds, so why are you knocking?"

"But if I stood silently outside a girl's bedroom door without knocking, I'd feel like a pervert!"

Daren Yi scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed. After their Mind Worlds overlapped, they could communicate directly through consciousness and converse mind-to-mind, but clearly, neither of them had quite adjusted to it yet.

The two stood silently where they were, their hearts connected. They did not say a single word, yet their thoughts had already flowed back and forth hundreds, even thousands of times. It was exceptionally efficient and accurate, and the atmosphere seemed to slowly turn pink...

"Ah! No, Brother Yi, what are you thinking..." The girl suddenly cried out. Her body moved faster than her thoughts as she sent a flying kick at Daren Yi, catching him completely off guard and launching him away.

In an instant, her face and neck turned completely pink. Like a startled rabbit, she darted back into her room.

With a bang, she slammed the door shut and even locked it from the inside, taking absolute precautions!

Daren Yi sheepishly peeled himself off the wall across the hallway. With his physical defense, he had not been hurt at all—not even a little pain.

Unfortunately, an indentation shaped like a human had been left in the wall. The startled girl had apparently reinforced her strength with Chakra on instinct.

At that moment, he suddenly understood that mind-to-mind communication did not bring only good things!

It was ridiculous... In that kind of situation, he had no control over what thoughts might suddenly pop into his mind!

At noon, Daren Yi and Izumi Uchiha brought along Sasuke Uchiha, who had been left outside to live alone, and headed toward the Hyuga Clan grounds with almost no disguise at all.

Pedestrians along the way turned a blind eye to the older and younger pair whose coats bore especially conspicuous Uchiha Clan Crests, as if they had not seen them at all.

Hiromi Sarutobi, a Jonin of the Sarutobi Clan who was also wandering the streets, was dumbfounded by the sight. If he was not mistaken, weren't those two Uchiha Clan members?

Such a huge incident had happened just yesterday, so why were the other pedestrians completely unsurprised to see Uchiha Clan members now? Why was no one reporting it to the village?

"H-Hey, did you see that? That one seems to be the missing Sasuke Uchiha, and the other girl seems to be an Uchiha Clan member too?"

Standing far away, Hiromi Sarutobi grabbed a middle-aged man beside him and asked in a low voice, hoping the man would say something about reporting this to the village or Lord Third Hokage.

To his surprise, the middle-aged man merely irritably slapped away the hand on his shoulder and said impatiently, "So what? What does that have to do with me?"

Then he glared at him and walked away.

Hiromi Sarutobi was utterly stunned. Had Konohagakure's residents' sense of identification with, trust in, and support for Lord Third Hokage really fallen to such a degree?

Unwilling to give up, he went on to ask many other people, but their answers were mostly the same... A short while later, he sat dejectedly by the roadside.