Tobirama Senju had stumbled his way to adulthood under the protection of his powerful relative, Hashirama Senju, and through the baptism of his powerful enemy Madara Uchiha's murderous intent. Along the way, he had developed a fixed notion.
People with great combat strength generally weren't very bright. Whatever they did, they simply bulldozed through it like his big brother Hashirama, without much planning. Meanwhile, sneaky people who relied on schemes and other tricks generally weren't all that strong in a fight-himself, for example.
Tobirama Senju had inevitably fallen into the trap of treating experience as dogma. Subconsciously, he believed that the strong should disdain petty tricks, which led him to a conclusion:
-Maybe there was more than one Black Zetsu?
A flawed line of reasoning had led to the right conclusion. He had hit the mark by accident.
As things stood, the Shinobi World might have one powerful Black Zetsu who behaved with outrageous arrogance, and another weaker Black Zetsu who stirred up trouble behind the scenes and used every trick in the book to manipulate others.
As Tobirama Senju pondered this, he casually laid bare both Black Zetsu's and Watanabe Ichiro's secrets.
Of course.
This was merely a bold hypothesis. It might bear no resemblance to reality and be entirely wrong.
Still, not trusting [Black Zetsu] was the right call regardless.
Using a shadow clone, Tobirama Senju carefully sealed away everything Black Zetsu had touched, including the note.
Tobirama Senju had read the note, but he had viewed its contents entirely as "the enemy's schemes and tricks." He hadn't believed a single word.
Ninja who had survived the Warring States era were far more vigilant. There was no telling whether intelligence obtained at the risk of your life had been deliberately leaked by the enemy, so every piece of