When all the Chibaku Tensei vanished into nothingness, Isshiki's ashes were scattered along with them.
Obito landed on the ground, looking as though he still wanted more.
His left eye felt extraordinary. It seemed that nothing besides the sky and earth could obstruct his vision. If anything did... he could extinguish it with Divine Illumination.
Naturally, what everyone wanted to know most now was whether Divine Illumination could kill people—or, to put it more precisely:
Could Divine Illumination annihilate [living targets]?
Compared with ordinary objects, living targets possessed an additional element: [souls].
Souls seemed to follow a separate, independent system of laws.
Even Isshiki's [Sukunahikona] and [Daikokuten], exalted as divine techniques, could not manipulate living beings other than himself. That alone made the issue clear. Techniques that could directly affect souls were exceedingly rare in this world.
The value of Sasuke's Hōsuseri-no-Mikoto kept rising...
Now, in this alternate dimension Isshiki had left behind, there were no living creatures apart from the four of them.
Obito said, "It seems we shouldn't conduct the next test in this dimension."
Kabuto Yakushi said, "Going back won't make it any easier. Would we kill an animal or a person?"
As those who bore responsibility for the world's future, the Sasuke Faction tacitly observed three major principles whenever killing was involved.
Those with a clear hostile stance—irreconcilable enemies in the greater cause—could be killed outright; those who posed an immediate threat to survival could be killed outright; and animals could be killed for food when sustenance was needed.
Outside those three reasons, they would not kill as a matter of principle.
Destruction without malicious intent and accidental killing did not fall under these restrictions. (After all, worrying about the lives of nearby animals in the middle of a furious battle would have been taking things