Genjutsu Defense

"In my understanding, nothing is unchangeable."

"The only thing in this world that never changed was change itself."

"The future was the same."

"Taking that as the premise, the future itself held countless possibilities for change."

"Every prophecy of the Great Toad Sage had been accurate enough, which showed that change itself could be perceived."

"Perhaps the so-called members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan could perceive it as well."

"What we needed to address was their very perception."

"First, we could become strong enough that we did not need to guard against the future."

"But if they could foresee the future, they might wait until those of us capable of dealing with them were dead before attacking the Shinobi World."

This was the simplest and most brutal method.

As long as people capable of defeating the enemy continued to emerge in the Shinobi World, there would be no problem.

"Second, and most importantly, foreseeing the future definitely required observing people."

"Since observation was necessary, there had to be some point of leverage."

Orochimaru smiled.

"Of course, the other side might use divination-based precognition, unlike the Great Toad Sage's prophetic dreams."

"That would eliminate the step of observation."

"But they could not be using that kind of object-based divination."

"It could only provide partial information, since there was an intermediary in between."

"That would introduce more variables into so-called precognition."

"If they used that method, we only needed to proceed step by step."

"As long as we hid information about our strength and ourselves, we could create more variables in the future."

Tobitake Tonbo nodded. Orochimaru's words made sense.

If precognition worked like the Great Toad Sage's, it definitely required observation in some form.

If there were ninjutsu capable of countering observation, they could start from that angle.

Orochimaru continued, "The other