Ninja World's Divine Speed! Tobirama Senju

"Uchiha Ye, you truly are a mysterious and terrifying man!"

Orochimaru stared at Uchiha Ye with a dangerous glint in his eyes. "You are like a riddle, leaving one completely unable to discern your true bottom line."

"To be an enemy of someone like you is truly despair-inducing!"

In the world of ninjas, the importance of intelligence goes without saying.

Often, it is intelligence that allows the weaker side to achieve victory.

Take, for example, Asuma Sarutobi, who was killed by Hidan in the original story.

It was precisely because he did not understand Hidan's abilities that he lost his life.

Now, however, Orochimaru's own trump cards were known so clearly that even he felt a sense of unease.

He could not be certain if Uchiha Ye possessed even more intelligence.

This left him with no advantage whatsoever when facing Uchiha Ye.

On the contrary, he risked being countered at every turn!

"Despair?"

Uchiha Ye laughed. "I appreciate the compliment. I will continue to work hard toward that goal, striving for the day when I can turn all of this into reality!"

He said to Sasori of the Red Sand beside him, "Leave the Edo Tensei enemy to me, and handle Orochimaru, Brother Sasori. Is that acceptable?"

Sasori of the Red Sand nodded. "No problem!"

He did not understand the Edo Tensei technique and would inevitably suffer if he faced it blindly.

Since that was the case, he would leave the Edo Tensei enemy to Uchiha Ye while he held Orochimaru back.

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Ye nodded and looked toward the coffin. He couldn't help but narrow his eyes. "Orochimaru, your calculations are truly excellent. Using the one most proficient in Water Style to restrain me renders my most prominent abilities largely ineffective, and I might exhaust my chakra before I can even break through his blockade."

"And you are naturally more than enough to deal with Brother Sasori alone. In the end, we might truly fail our mission and be unable to eliminate a traitor like you!"

Hearing Uchiha Ye's words, Orochimaru's gaze sharpened once more. "You actually know who I summoned?"

For the first time, he felt an urgent desire to eliminate someone.

Facing Uchiha Ye, he felt as though he had no secrets at all, gripped by the chilling sensation of being seen through completely.

"Is that so hard to guess?"

Uchiha Ye grinned. "You already marked the identity on the coffin yourself. Besides, facing an enemy like me with heat-based abilities, the only person from Konoha you could specifically summon is him, right?"

Sasori of the Red Sand did not understand their cryptic exchange and asked, puzzled, "Ye, who is in the coffin? Do you know him?"

Uchiha Ye let out a mocking laugh. "Of course!"

Immediately, he turned his gaze forward, sharp as a blade, and said word by word, "The Second Hokage of Konoha, the greatest enemy of my Uchiha clan—Tobirama Senju!"

Just as he spoke, the coffin lid fell and crashed to the ground. The person summoned within stepped out—who else could it be but Tobirama Senju?

His face was gray and white, covered in cracks, his eyes dull and devoid of any vitality.

He stood with a hunched posture, like a marionette, and remained motionless after standing up.

"I wonder what the Second Hokage will think when he realizes he has been summoned by the very jutsu he invented?"

Uchiha Ye was actually in the mood to joke.

Sasori of the Red Sand also found the prospect quite interesting.

"You are truly relaxed, Uchiha Ye!"

Orochimaru smiled as well, though with a hint of annoyance.

All his trump cards had been guessed; there was no sense of surprise left.

He pulled out a kunai attached with a control talisman and inserted it into the back of the Second Hokage's neck.

Suddenly!

The Second Hokage's previously gray and white face began to flush with color.

Tobirama Senju was officially revived!

Although there was still a vast difference between him and a living person, his eyes suddenly sharpened with focus.

"Where am I..."

The Second Hokage was startled by his own reappearance.

He clenched his fists and frowned. "Edo Tensei?"

His gaze turned icy. "To think someone would dare to toy with this technique so recklessly?"

He turned to look at Orochimaru, who was walking over, and stared at him intently. "Is it you, you scoundrel!"

"Who are you? Why do you possess my Edo Tensei?"

Orochimaru gave a low laugh. "Who I am is unimportant. What matters is that you have a task to perform, Second Hokage. I did not summon you here to be questioned."

Hearing this, Tobirama Senju's gaze grew even colder. "Are you threatening me?"

A heavy, overwhelming aura erupted from his body, clearly reaching the level of a Kage.

Seeing this, Orochimaru immediately activated the control formula, and Tobirama Senju instantly felt his body lock up, even his chakra dissipating beyond his control.

This took him quite by surprise!

Of course, it was also incredibly infuriating!

To think that he, Tobirama Senju, would one day be reduced to someone else's puppet, completely unable to resist.

And to be controlled by a ninjutsu he had invented himself, no less!

It was truly a disgrace to his old face!

"My apologies, Second Hokage!"

Orochimaru licked his lips and said, "Do you see that Uchiha brat? He is your opponent today!"

Upon hearing this, Tobirama Senju looked over, his gaze turning terrifyingly sharp: "An evil Uchiha brat! Judging by your attire, it seems you are no longer a Konoha ninja."

"As I expected, I knew you lot couldn't be trusted; you were bound to betray Konoha!"

Hearing these words, Uchiha Ye couldn't help but scoff: "Second Hokage, your hostility toward the Uchiha is as intense as ever, isn't it?"

"But then again, are the Uchiha the only ones who are evil?"

He smiled mockingly and pointed at Orochimaru beside him: "This man... is the prized student of your dear disciple Sarutobi Hiruzen, a former Hokage candidate named Orochimaru!"

"Compared to someone like him, who tramples on life at will in pursuit of immortality, conducts experiments with blood-soaked human lives, and even toys with the souls of the dead, our Uchiha evil pales in comparison!"

He watched as Tobirama Senju's face darkened, and teased: "How about it? Being manipulated by your own grand-disciple must be quite the experience, right?"

Orochimaru merely chuckled at this: "It is my honor to be able to command the Second Hokage in battle!"

"Now, enough talk!"

Activating the formula, Tobirama Senju instantly lost all autonomous consciousness.

This, at least, spared him the fate of being angered to the point of vomiting blood.

"Whoosh!"

Like a bolt of lightning, Tobirama Senju closed the distance in an instant, a kunai appearing in his hand to slash at Uchiha Ye's throat.

It was absurdly fast, leaving no room for reaction!

"So fast..."

Seeing this scene, Sasori of the Red Sand was shocked to his core within Hiruko: "Is this... the Second Hokage? The rumors of his god-like speed in the Ninja World are no exaggeration!"

Squelch!

Without any warning, Uchiha Ye's throat was torn open, and crimson liquid sprayed everywhere.

But Tobirama Senju suddenly retreated at high speed!

Because the kunai in his hand had actually melted.

Moreover, what sprayed out was scorching magma, not blood.

This was certainly not something that should happen when wounding an enemy.