[His gaze returned to Boruto and Shikadai, and his red pupils seemed to reflect the rise and fall of countless data:]
["Over the years, Orochimaru and I have exhausted our minds and means—one attempting to replace the weakness of flesh and blood with mechanical eternity, and the other exploring the boundaries of soul reincarnation and cell cloning."]
["What we do is merely an attempt to find a way to evade the erosion of time and prolong the existence of 'existence'.")
["However, we have both merely glimpsed the threshold, and we are still far, far away from truly mastering the mysteries of time."]
[Seeing his master reveal a rare, slightly melancholic expression, Child Emperor hurriedly comforted him:]
["Master, you are already very, very amazing! The path you pioneered is unique! I believe that as long as you continue to research, you will succeed one day!"]
[Boruto understood only half of what he heard, catching only a few keywords, and he whispered to Shikadai:]
["Shikadai, what on earth does senior Sasori mean? A time weapon? That girl..."]
[Shikadai's expression turned solemn, and he lowered his voice to explain: "Simply put, senior Sasori means that this girl's body should actually have died several hundred years ago."]
["When the Senju Clan sealed her back then, they did not have the ability to let her live this long."]
["That she can 'survive' until now relies entirely on some kind of self-preservation ability of her Mangekyō Sharingan propping her up by sheer force."]
["However, this kind of maintenance has a limit. Her 'soul' might still be there, but her body is already riddled with holes and could completely collapse at any moment. She is now more like a special 'living dead' state."]
[Boruto's heart tightened, and he anxiously looked at Sasori again: "Senior Sasori! Then do