The moment Impure World Reincarnation Tōka finished speaking, Edo Madara summoned Susanoo and lunged at her recklessly, consumed by hatred!
If Impure World Reincarnation Hōkaku and Impure World Reincarnation Hashirama had not immediately stepped in front of Tōka, even her immortal, reanimated body would have been smashed to dust over and over by Susanoo.
"Madara, stop!"
Hashirama, who had endured Edo Madara's one-sided violence without ever fighting back, finally intervened.
He understood how much grief and despair Edo Madara felt, but taking it out on Tōka, who was equally tormented by the loss of her daughter, was undoubtedly wrong.
"Clan leader, if you need to hit someone, hit me... Aaaah!!!"
Impure World Reincarnation Hōkaku looked utterly devastated. Nothing could be crueler than learning he had once had a child, only to immediately discover that she had died long ago.
He suddenly felt full of resentment toward Hashirama.
Why had he brought him back? Why had he made him endure this pain? Why had he made him learn these cruel truths?
But what hurt him most was this: why had Tōka not told him everything back then?
"Senju Toka, why? Why didn't you tell me?"
"..."
Faced with Hōkaku's questions, Tōka merely stood there in silence, her eyes hollow and despairing.
Sometimes, a single decision really could change the course of the entire world's history.
Back then, when she realized she was pregnant and that the child was far from ordinary, the Senju and Uchiha clans had only just founded the village, and friction between them was constant.
Impure World Reincarnation Tōka had abandoned the idea of asking Hōkaku for help, choosing instead to turn to her cousin, an Uzumaki clanswoman she knew well.
With her cousin's careful arrangements, she left Konoha as an envoy to the Land of Whirlpools, intending