"All right... we can talk about the bodies later. Let's bring my dad back first!"
As he spoke, Naruto handed the Shinigami Mask to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru wasted no time. He put on the mask and began forming the hand seals to undo the Reaper Death Seal.
"Reaper Death Seal... release!"
Once he finished the hand seals, the Shinigami Apparition appeared behind him.
Orochimaru then drew the knife he had prepared earlier and sliced open his stomach without hesitation.
At the same time, the Shinigami drew his short blade and sliced open his own stomach.
As the Shinigami cut his stomach open, a wisp of a soul flew out.
After leaving the Shinigami's stomach, the soul paused for only a moment before flying straight into Minato's Cloning Body.
Inside the Sealing Space.
Minato, who had watched everything unfold, embraced Kushina.
"Kushina, don't worry. I'll bring you back as soon as I can!"
"Okay! I believe in you!"
After saying goodbye to Kushina, Minato Namikaze dispelled this clone of himself.
Meanwhile.
A streak of light flew out of Naruto's stomach and entered Minato's Cloning, just as the soul had earlier.
"Naruto... hurry and pry open my Cloning Body's mouth!"
Just then, Orochimaru's somewhat feeble voice rang out.
Hearing him, Naruto immediately pried open the Cloning Body Orochimaru's mouth.
Orochimaru immediately used Living Corpse Reincarnation to switch bodies.
After switching bodies, Orochimaru promptly got up from the floor and began examining his new body.
He found that, apart from being several sizes smaller, his current body was almost no different from his previous one.
Because it was younger, its cells were more active.
Orochimaru had a feeling that a body created through cloning would not need to be replaced every few years.
To be precise, this body was his own, so