"Huh???" Hashirama exclaimed from beside them. "Tobirama, didn't you say you developed the Flying Thunder God Technique yourself? Were you deliberately lying to me?"
"That's impossible! No one could possibly have developed the Flying Thunder God Technique before me!" Tobirama shook his head firmly, his face full of disbelief. "And even if someone developed Space-Time Ninjutsu based on the same principles, there's no way they would coincidentally give it the exact same name!"
"But his technique does have the same name as yours!" Hashirama retorted.
Tobirama fell silent and said nothing.
"All right, all right, forget about the Flying Thunder God Technique. Let's go check on that fellow from the Kaguya Clan first, then gather our people and head back to the clan grounds to rest!" Hashirama said with an awkward laugh.
Only then did the tension ease.
The corners of Uchiha Sora's mouth lifted slightly. He knew Tobirama was suspicious by nature, but the man could rack his brains all he liked and never guess that Sora had come from another world.
After that minor interlude, the four returned to the battlefield together.
The enormous bone demon warrior had vanished from the battlefield. Long bone spikes covered the ground, making it look like a vast forest of bones from a distance.
The four reached the center of the bone forest and found Kaguya Yakki's body amid a pile of grayish-white bone fragments.
His entire body looked deathly pale, drained of color and withered.
"Did he die after exhausting all his chakra? Shikotsumyaku truly is a terrifying kekkei genkai. But without powerful chakra reserves and a strong body, this kekkei genkai will turn against its user instead." Tobirama took out a scroll and sealed Kaguya Yakki's body inside it, sighing.
"All right, let's head back," Hashirama said with a wave