"Difference? Can't you see it with your own eyes?"
Madara slowly opened his eyes and found everyone's gaze fixed on him.
"There seem to be a lot fewer cracks..."
"Not only that, his skin seems to have gotten paler."
"Look closely-the Rinne Sharingan mark is still on his forehead!"
"Ah! Madara opened his eyes! They aren't black around the irises anymore, either. They look like normal whites."
"Exactly... Ordinary Impure World Reincarnation gives off a strong sense of death, but this version radiates vitality...
Now this is true reincarnation!"
Madara frowned, his voice icy.
"What exactly... are you all doing?"
Tobirama folded his arms across his chest and looked smugly at Madara Uchiha.
"It looks like our experiment succeeded."
"What experiment?"
"Six Paths: Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu."
Madara stared into Tobirama's eyes for a moment, then closed his own, sensing the power surging within him.
"So that's it..."
Tobirama turned to explain to Kaguya, Hagoromo, and the Five Kage.
"Ordinary Impure World Reincarnation uses the most common dust from our Shinobi World, so what your bodies contain is the Shinobi World's natural energy.
But Six Paths: Impure World Reincarnation uses the ashes of members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan in place of that dust!"
"Huh?"
Third Raikage A glanced up at Kaguya.
"But Lady Kaguya... isn't she still standing right here, perfectly fine?"
"There's more than one Ōtsutsuki in the world.
My older brother, my sister-in-law, and I were already brought back through Impure World Reincarnation over a decade ago.
Before this war broke out, we lived on the moon, studying the secrets of the Ōtsutsuki Clan alongside Hamura Otsutsuki's descendants...
Otsutsuki Toneri and his now-deceased father."
At those words, everyone's expressions froze for a second.
Madara Uchiha raised an eyebrow and turned toward the perfectly composed Xuanhui.
"Your doing?"
"Who