"The time we're in is actually the future?"
"Wait, I'm a little confused. Minato, what do you mean by that?"
Kushina hurriedly waved her hands, signaling that she didn't understand and needed an explanation.
"Like Shukaku said, it's actually very simple. A flaw in our thinking kept us from figuring it out," Minato explained, sharing his theory. "Everything that happened before, including the previous life Kurama experienced, wasn't our future. It was our past. Those events simply happened twice."
"Fourth Hokage, you say it's simple, but I think things are even more complicated than we originally imagined."
Tobirama glanced up at Shukaku and Himawari, then turned a serious gaze on Minato. "You know what this means. What we need to do next is completely different from what we were preparing to do before."
As he spoke, Tobirama had already signaled for his shadow clone to operate something off to the side.
Since this Laboratory dealt with the secrets of the tailed beasts, there were no other staff members around.
Second Hokage Tobirama Senju and Tobirama Senju's shadow clones served as the researchers and assistants throughout the process. As the saying went, the capable bore the greater burden.
Of course, Hashirama was also a frequent visitor to the laboratory, but Tobirama didn't consider his older brother a researcher—even twenty-four hours of earnest help from Hashirama might not make up for the trouble he caused Tobirama with a single careless mistake.
Fortunately, the bodies revived through the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu Tobirama had developed had no concept of fatigue or ordinary physiological needs. Otherwise, no one could have kept this up.
Still, the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu wasn't all-powerful. Through using it over this period, Tobirama had already become aware of a certain flaw, though he was planning to find time to