After putting his young girlfriend to sleep, Tamura Hiroshi went to sit in a lounge chair in the living room, while his consciousness entered the Spiritual Space.
In the past, he hadn't been able to enter the Spiritual Space of his own accord, and he had been practicing the Nara Clan's secret technique for that very reason, but he still hadn't quite mastered it.
However, after absorbing the First Hokage's Yang Release Chakra earlier and falling unconscious, his consciousness had entered this place. There, he had seen the true form of his Golden Finger: a Fragmented Jade Piece.
Before, he'd only been able to sense it vaguely and knew it could improve his comprehension. He had also received a few scattered bits of information from it.
"Backlash of Destiny, the Kama, Timeline Collapse, severing the ages."
Murmuring those four pieces of information, Tamura Hiroshi had some vague suspicions.
His Golden Finger needed a kind of Power of Destiny to activate. Only then could it improve his comprehension and assist his training.
The Kama probably referred to the Otsutsuki treasure that could travel through time. Timeline Collapse was easy enough to understand.
The last phrase, "severing the ages," probably referred to the Desolate Heaven Emperor from another world, who had severed Time and Space and left behind a relatively independent world for the future.
It also meant severing time so no one could change the past.
Putting these clues together gave him a few ideas. Combined with the mysterious disappearance of his father's first wife and the child she'd been carrying, as well as the changes to the mothers of the two protagonists, what had happened was easy to guess.
Perhaps this wasn't his first time in this world. Perhaps he had failed in his previous life, then started over with