"Hey, brat, what exactly is this thing?"
Inside the Sealing Space, a white-skinned man with horns on his head raised his hand toward the blue screen and asked Naruto in an arrogant tone.
"None of your business."
Naruto turned his head aside and curled his lip.
More than ten full days had passed since Isshiki's Kāma had entered his body.
Perhaps Isshiki had been too weak when he first came in, or perhaps Hashirama and Madara had gotten too carried away fighting.
Whatever the case, Isshiki had slept for a long time, and his consciousness had nearly become muddled.
As for the current situation...
That had to start a few days earlier, when Uncle Tobirama visited.
At the time, Isshiki's consciousness was still unable to speak.
That left Tobirama feeling a little impatient.
He thought, Wasn't he an Ōtsutsuki? Why was his consciousness recovering so slowly?
After all, the sooner Isshiki could speak, the sooner he could obtain more information from him.
So he visited Naruto's Sealing Space again.
Then, after spending some time studying Isshiki's feeble consciousness inside the Eight Trigrams Seal, he discovered something.
The Eight Trigrams Seal (Chains of Heaven version) seemed to suppress Isshiki too strongly, preventing even the chakra the Kāma drew from Naruto from reaching Isshiki's consciousness to restore his condition.
As a result, his current condition was actually the same as when he had first been locked inside the Eight Trigrams Seal, perhaps even worse because he received no chakra replenishment.
Remembering how he had told Isshiki to take his time recovering, Tobirama's mouth twitched.
Of course, he felt no guilt whatsoever. The other party was an enemy, after all.
At most, he felt a little awkward.
Tobirama set down the experimental data in his hand, turned, and walked toward the Eight Trigrams