Before long, Karin took down all twenty-seven "Reaper Masks" from the wall one by one and packed them into a bag.
Hyuga Kagami casually asked the Uzumaki clan chief beside him, "Now that we've identified the corresponding 'Reaper Mask,' how do we undo the Reaper Death Seal?"
The Uzumaki clan chief shook his head. "I'm not very clear on the specific method for undoing the Reaper Death Seal."
"Huh?!"
Hyuga Kagami could not contain his surprise as he stared at him.
With his hands tucked into his sleeves, the Uzumaki clan chief said blandly, "The Reaper Death Seal is a forbidden jutsu that guarantees death. Once it is used, the caster perishes alongside the enemy. So long as one knows how to cast it, that is enough. Whether one learns how to undo the seal is irrelevant."
"This..." Hyuga Kagami found himself unable to refute that for a moment, so he could only say, "But aren't you the chief of the Uzumaki Clan?"
The Uzumaki clan chief replied coldly, "Our Uzumaki Clan has countless varieties of Sealing Jutsu, all different in nature. No one can master every Sealing Jutsu—not even this old man!"
The Four Symbols Seal, Eight Trigrams Seal, Adamantine Sealing Chains, Contract Seal, Yin Seal, and other powerful Sealing Jutsu renowned throughout the Ninja World all originated from the Uzumaki Clan. Thus, although the Reaper Death Seal was powerful, its enormous drawbacks meant it was not a jutsu that every Uzumaki clansman was required to learn.
As for whether any Uzumaki clansmen had specifically researched methods to break the Reaper Death Seal, there certainly had been some. They were simply a minority within the clan.
It was like how, though they were all Hokage, the Third Hokage might not necessarily know the First Hokage's Wood Release or the