Puzzling over Shingetsu's incomprehensible, melodramatic pronouncements, Tobirama knitted his brows and carefully reconstructed the instant she had broken the Caged Bird Seal in the Hyuga Clan Compound from memory.
The blade had pierced a skull without touching so much as a speck of flesh or blood. Even in the Shinobi World, where Newton's laws held no sway, that sight was so impossible it bordered on magic.
Having failed to witness it himself, Tobirama could only reconstruct it over and over from the reports. Yet the facts proved that Shingetsu had done plenty of seemingly magical things.
Whether she was cutting through ninjutsu and chakra, killing poison, or breaking the Fire Temple's Iron Wall Seal, every single feat was a jaw-dropping miracle. But how exactly had she done it? She had not even awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan!
"Didn't Shingetsu already tell you? Those eyes can see the death of all things."
Madara Uchiha impatiently explained it again, but in essence, he had explained nothing. He still refused to speak in comprehensible terms. Tobirama's expression kept shifting until he finally sighed and murmured in disbelief:
"How... is that possible?"
How could a mere mortal so easily glimpse something like death? Those were eyes that only the god of death should possess!
In Tobirama's understanding, the closest thing to the concept of a death god was the Uzumaki Clan's forbidden secret technique-the Reaper Death Seal. But could something like that truly compare to these eyes?
For a moment, Tobirama was speechless, his thoughts a tangled mess. He struggled to reorganize them and decided to get to the bottom of how Shingetsu had awakened her eyes. His gaze turned to Madara Uchiha, who stood opposite him.
"How did she awaken her Sharingan?"
Madara fell into a rather telling silence. After a long moment, he