When Kazemori Masaki returned home again, he could already see the slight swell of Satomi's belly. The thought of a new life growing inside his wife filled him with quiet joy.
"I examined her with a secret technique a little while ago, and it looks like Satomi is probably carrying twins. You really are a lucky fellow." Senju Toka, who had been looking after Satomi these past few days, shared the good news as soon as she saw Kazemori Masaki.
"Really?" Kazemori Masaki had never expected Satomi to conceive two children at once. For the sparsely populated Kazemori Family, this was a wonderful surprise.
"Of course. Don't underestimate our clan's secret techniques," Senju Toka said with a smile.
Although the shinobi world had no medical equipment specifically designed to examine unborn children, it did have secret techniques that served the same purpose. While the tools ordinary people used were still at the level of the fifteenth or sixteenth century in another world, the secret techniques used by shinobi could rival modern civilization in certain respects.
Kazemori Masaki certainly trusted the Senju Clan's medical secret techniques. He had personally witnessed Hashirama Senju's powerful Yang Release. Even setting Hashirama aside, the unique secret technique that maintained a healthy appearance without diminishing combat strength was equally astonishing. He also knew that, before his death, Hashirama had preserved his own cells with a secret technique for his younger brother to study, and those cells remained viable to this day.
Only then had Kazemori Masaki understood why Hashirama's cells could still be used in the shinobi world in the years to come. It was not that Hashirama still possessed living cells after his death; he had simply set aside a reserve long beforehand. Madara Uchiha had probably used a similar method to preserve the piece