Hashirama felt somewhat sorrowful, but knowing that he too would return to eternal rest after this, he let out a breath.
At that moment, Minato led several Uchiha clansmen over to Hashirama's side.
"First Hokage, following Shamu's orders, we need to recover Madara's body."
Hashirama turned and looked at Madara, staring blankly for several seconds.
"Mm. Go ahead."
The Uchiha clansmen quickly took out a body bag and placed Madara inside.
Among them, one person wore a particularly subtle expression.
First came confusion, then a hidden little surprise, and finally, his entire face twisted with ecstatic joy. He merely rubbed his face.
He quickly suppressed his emotions.
This person was Uchiha Rikuto. The reason his emotions had changed so drastically—
Was because of his Mangekyō Sharingan ability.
Deathly Shadow Retention: it could summon the dead again in the form of shadows.
What it summoned was merely a mass of shadow. It could not speak, had no intelligence, and currently could not use any other abilities.
But they could not be killed.
It was basically a simplified version of Limbo: Border Jail.
The activation condition was that he had to have seen the person, and that person had to die within a thousand meters of him.
However, with his current ability, he could only summon one person.
When Shamu had died, he had tried it and failed.
Now that Madara had died, he tried again—and succeeded.
This gave Rikuto a bold suspicion: their clan head was not dead!
However, he did not reveal it. If the clan head had faked his death, then he certainly had his reasons.
In any case, the clan head would appear again someday.
Haku pulled Kimimaro into a corner.
"Why did Lord Shamu do this? How is he now!?"
Haku glared at Kimimaro, his face full