After speaking with the Island Turtle for a long while, Tamura Hiroshi finally climbed onto its back. It was truly like an island, with plenty of vegetation and animals.
Following his senses, Tamura Hiroshi found Karura and the others. They were inside the True Waterfall. Uchiha Hikari was sitting cross-legged, facing the Dark Side shaped by the True Waterfall, while the others had gone behind it, where there was a vast space.
Tamura Hiroshi glanced at Uchiha Hikari, then strode into the waterfall.
"Does this count as plagiarism of the Water Curtain Cave?"
After making the quip, he looked around. The first things he saw were two rows of headless statues, each holding a hand seal—but not one of the twelve seals used in ninja techniques.
They looked a little like the Child seal, though the two fingers on the hands were pointing upward.
They also resembled the Unseal, but there were differences. Tamura Hiroshi knew this was a kind of hand seal used by monks.
Hand seals had originally belonged to monks and Onmyoji. Indra had merely developed them further; he hadn't invented them out of nothing.
"Those marks aren't very old. Did people from the village break them off?"
Leaping up to examine the broken necks of the headless statues, Tamura Hiroshi confirmed that the damage wasn't especially old. The color of the breaks was quite different from that of the statues themselves.
"I heard these statues had a special power that could stir people's emotions. They were extremely dangerous, so the heads were all broken off.
"The murals that used to be here had the same power to beguile people. In the end, they scraped them off and carved scenes of Father fighting the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails."
Yozuki A came over to explain. This place had once