Black Zetsu: Geniuses Are Nothing but My Pawns

"Lord Tobirama!!!"

Chiri's eyes reddened with fury. She immediately swung her kunai, cutting through the wooden spike beneath Tobirama.

Then she leaped away with Tobirama.

Unfortunately, she was still too late.

The attack had come too suddenly, and it was too deadly!

There had been no warning, and the strike had pierced Tobirama's heart!

Such a grievous wound.

Across the entire Ninja World, almost no ordinary ninja could have survived it, except Hashirama himself.

And Tobirama was no exception.

Unless Tobirama happened to be in some slippery snake's laboratory several decades in the future, where they might be able to replace his heart on the spot and keep him alive.

Unfortunately, they were out in the wilderness, on a battlefield.

There was no equipment or technology for such advanced transplant surgery...

"Princess Tobirama" spat out a mouthful of blood. His vision began to blur, and his life force rapidly faded.

As the second-in-command of the entire Senju Clan, the third-in-command of Konoha, and the power behind the Land of Fire...

Tobirama had never imagined this.

He was going to die so carelessly, so miserably.

Even more pitifully than if he'd died at the hands of Kinkaku and Ginkaku...

If another version of himself from the future found out, wouldn't he laugh all the way in the Pure Land?

"Chiri..."

Tobirama could no longer speak. He could only look at the young woman before him, his heart filled with remorse.

"Chiri, I'm sorry. I've let you down!"

"And that damn bastard Izuna! Where the hell are you? Get over here and help!"

"So slow. You deserved to get yourself stabbed to death!"

"Just you wait. I'll be waiting for all of you in the Pure Land. Elder Brother will avenge me!"

"And Elder Brother knows Impure World Reincarnation. I'll definitely come