"Ideas" were more stubborn than any virus. Once they took root, they could never be easily eradicated!
Even a top-tier old schemer who had hidden in the shadows for a thousand years, plotting to save his mother, could not remain unmoved once his deepest desire was touched.
Black Zetsu was indeed good at waiting...
But he had never lacked the ability to act!
From the earliest Indra to the reincarnates of every later generation, he had frequently appeared in the unwritten cracks of history. Relying on his elusive advantage, he repeatedly sorted through the course of events, attempting to steer everything toward the script he had meticulously designed.
And now, the chance to accomplish his grand undertaking lay right before him. The aloe-like man, who had originally planned to obediently play the role of old Madara's "clone," did not hesitate for long before formally incorporating Yamada Soji, this chess piece, into his grand plan that had been delayed for a thousand years.
The question was... how exactly could he seize the future most favorable to reviving his mother from among so many tangled branches?
After all, Black Zetsu's skill set did not include a power like 0-08 that could directly alter the torrent of fate.
All his so-called divine calculations were, in truth, founded on the premise of information asymmetry!
This meant the aloe-like man could not simply point at whatever was wrong and fix it as crudely and directly as Mother Kaguya could. More often than not, he had to solve problems through more roundabout means.
To put it more bluntly, even if he were confident he could use violence to eliminate Sarutobi Hiruzen in the prime of his life, Yamada Soji still could not possibly take Konoha's highest seat after the Third Hokage died unexpectedly.
At the very