"There was no such concept. Even if someone had been dead for decades, as long as I could find their bones, I could still bring them back with Impure World Reincarnation."
"That proves their souls have remained in the Pure Land all along."
That made Torikaze rather unhappy.
Qinghe's lifelong dream had been to become a ninja. For that, he had even been willing to give up this life and become a ninja in the next.
But now he was being told that souls could not reincarnate. Wasn't that just ridiculous?
"With so many people in the Shinobi World, and so many dying every day, wouldn't the Pure Land have been packed full long ago?"
Tobirama Senju glanced at Torikaze. "Kid, I've never died either. How would I know what the Pure Land is like? Why not find someone and ask them?"
The idea made Torikaze's eyes light up, though Hashirama was rather opposed to it.
"Disturbing the souls within the Pure Land will earn its rejection. I suggest you use fewer of those vile ninja techniques."
Tobirama paid him no mind, but Torikaze feared that the Pure Land might truly reject him and chose to give up on the idea.
"What rejection? It's just a place for storing the dead. Everyone has to go there when they die. What's the big deal?"
Tobirama truly did not care about such things. When he had created Impure World Reincarnation, he had never considered whether the Pure Land would reject him.
After all, even if it rejected him, could it refuse to take him after he died? If it really did refuse, even better—I wouldn't have to die.
With that mindset, he had developed Impure World Reincarnation, a technique capable of forcibly dragging the souls of the dead back into the living