The Ninja Academy's Incredible Legends (39) Even Exceptionally Talented Children Have Knowledge Blind Spots

What truly made Mizuki wary was Kaguya Otsutsuki's phenomenon-like immortality, as natural and inevitable as apples falling from trees and water flowing downhill.

The Shinobi World itself no longer possessed any means of completely killing such a "phenomenon." One could only become one with the Way like the Sage of Six Paths and serve as an agent of nature's will, or, like Mizuki, use reincarnation to achieve the goal through the power of time.

Both methods could erase the primary will of these phenomenon-level immortal beings and, as time passed, turn them into part of the underlying rules.

If neither could be done, then they could only be sealed away for now and dealt with once the capability existed.

Orochimaru's so-called "immortality" was merely a technicality. Whether to deal with him or not depended entirely on Mizuki's attitude. So long as he did not return from death after entering the underworld, Mizuki could turn a blind eye.

If he really wanted to split hairs, Mizuki himself was in a state similar to Orochimaru's, as was Hayate Gekko. All of their physical clones were the same. Since that was the case, why should Mizuki go looking for trouble?

Time would naturally smooth over all discord.

Ever since becoming the top student, the only one capable of competing with little Miyuki had been Nagi Gekko.

Yet even in practical swordsmanship, the one area where she had held an advantage, she was gradually being caught up to. There was basically no way to stop little Miyuki from monopolizing first place.

"There haven't been any decent geniuses at the school these past two years."

Mizuki idly flipped through ****, and he roughly understood the current situation.

Not to mention students from Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha's generation—even those with talent like Konohamaru's were nowhere