Hiruzen Sarutobi had never even dreamed of something like splitting the Reaper in half, much less ever considered it.
Yet today, he had witnessed this unbelievable sight with his own eyes.
"What kind of sword was that?"
A weapon capable of cleaving the Reaper in two with a single strike definitely couldn't be ordinary, could it?
However, when Yinsen sheathed his sword, Hiruzen Sarutobi sharply noticed a tag still hanging from the scabbard. It was from a perfectly ordinary blade shop in Konoha.
"Yinsen picked it up from a roadside shop before coming here. I was wondering why he bought a longsword at the time. I never expected him to use it for something so astounding."
Jiraiya understood Hiruzen Sarutobi's feelings all too well. His worldview had been shattered by Yinsen time and again until he became like this: no matter what astonishing thing Yinsen did, he would no longer be surprised.
This also seemed to prove once again that what Yinsen had said about his identity was true.
At the very least, he didn't believe an ordinary person could casually buy a longsword off the street and use it to cut down the Reaper.
Neither Jiraiya nor Hiruzen Sarutobi had considered that Yinsen simply hadn't taken this so-called Reaper seriously. In his eyes, the Reaper was more like the manifestation of some rule. It had little self-awareness, and its strength was nothing impressive.
For Yinsen, cutting down that thing was no different from cutting down an ordinary ninja.
So after finishing the deed, he didn't think he had done anything remarkable at all. He calmly continued what he was doing.
He had rescued Minato Namikaze's soul, and Kushina Uzumaki's soul had long since been summoned here. All that remained was to revive them.
In the Naruto World, bringing the