"The mask? Leave it here. I'll handle it."
With Hashirama relaying their communications, Tobirama obtained the Mask of the Shinigami and began studying and analyzing it.
Hashirama had complete confidence in his little brother.
After all, as long as he gave him a direction, he was sure to figure something out.
Space-time, sealing jutsu, genjutsu, Water Release, Impure World Reincarnation...
He was simply an all-around talent.
And after obtaining the Mask of the Shinigami, Tobirama indeed lived up to that confidence. After a few simple attempts, he already had three solutions.
The simplest and quickest was to have their Little Itachi use genjutsu to control a shinobi in prison who had committed serious crimes and make him perform the Reaper Death Seal to break the seal.
As for the other options, they were a little troublesome and would even require the research results from the Blue Screen's side.
Use rules to counter rules.
But after all this research, Tobirama had only encountered three kinds of rules.
One was the rules concerning the Pure Land in Impure World Reincarnation, one was the rules on the Blue Screen's side, and the last was this thing called the Shinigami.
People tended to call things whose workings they knew, but whose underlying principles and nature they did not understand, rules.
Although Tobirama wanted to explore the principles behind them, he did not have time right now.
After all, he had so much on his hands that he genuinely could not spare any time for research.
While Jiraiya and Karin were searching for the Mask of the Shinigami, something major also happened in the shinobi world.
Iwagakure issued an announcement that its tailed beast jinchūriki had been captured.
At the same time, it requested a Five Kage Summit.
And before this, the one that had