It wasn't just Orochimaru—at that moment, all three Edo Tensei bodies were hit with the same flood of information.
Edo Tensei bodies don't really have thoughts, and yet the overload of data hit them instantly.
Their souls and minds kept rebooting as they were forced to absorb endless information about everything in the world.
The four of them just stood frozen, not moving, letting the flood of knowledge crash into their brains.
"You're looking kind of spaced out too."
"If you're next to me, the Limitless Void shouldn't affect you. You're not going to end up brain-dead, are you?"
Hatake Satoru casually lifted Hozuki Mangetsu with one hand, then turned his head and waved at him.
Mangetsu stared at him like he'd seen a ghost, scanning him up and down.
With a soft *poof*, the white smoke cleared, and the big sword in his hand vanished into its scroll.
"I'm not brain-dead…"
"It's just… everything about that was way too much to handle."
"Forget about how this place suddenly turned pitch black."
"Sensei, you're way too unexpectedly handsome!"
Hatake Satoru's face was a solid 14 out of 10 in looks, nothing like the normal kind of handsome.
Eighty percent of women couldn't possibly have such a beautiful face.
If it weren't for Hatake Satoru's mouth moving, Hozuki Mangetsu would have a hard time believing this was the same guy who spent all day joking around and teasing them.
Mangetsu's mind wasn't shaken by the Limitless Void, but he was definitely struck by this face that was almost too handsome to exist.
After all, thinking about Kakashi's lazy, drooping "dead fish" eye, no one would connect the two at all.
Mangetsu then looked down at the ground under his feet—just now, there really had been a moment when it turned white.
Then the whole place became pitch black.
Behind Orochimaru and a few Edo Tensei bodies, there was a massive eye, like a black hole.
Hatake Satoru was holding Mangetsu up, and when Mangetsu cautiously stretched his foot down, sure enough, there was no ground below.
Other than Hatake Satoru, who was really standing in this space, everyone else seemed to be floating in midair.
What is this place…?
"Well, didn't I tell you I'm really handsome?"
"Why don't you ever remember what I say~"
Hatake Satoru replied lightly, then turned his gaze toward the Edo Tensei bodies.
The three reanimated bodies already had faint cracks forming, clearly about to collapse under the flood of incoming information, reaching the point of self-destruction.
Their souls were unstable to begin with, so in the Limitless Void, it wasn't strange for them to be completely destroyed.
Those things were fine to deal with, but that one living person still had to be kept as Hatake Satoru's scapegoat.
It would be a shame if he died.
After going through this, he'd probably behave himself for a while.
The sense of space inside this black void had completely changed—Mangetsu couldn't tell near from far or measure any distance.
It felt as vast as an endless universe.
Hatake Satoru instantly moved to Orochimaru's side and placed one hand on his shoulder.
Letting him be brainwashed by the Limitless Void a bit longer, it was hard to say whether this man—who survived until the end of the Hokage era and mastered core technology—would walk out sane or as an idiot.
Nothing could be seen, nothing could be felt.
Or maybe, everything could be seen, everything could be heard.
In an instant, all information gathered together.
No matter if it was important or not, everything was forcibly crammed into the mind.
So there was no way to move, no way to act.
Orochimaru had never experienced anything like this before—a power that seemed to lay the entire world bare before his eyes.
He had almost never even heard of something like it.
It wasn't immortality—it was as if the end of the world, the answer to the world, was contained within.
The moment Hatake Satoru's hand pressed on his shoulder, Orochimaru clearly saw the truth of everything around him. The noisy, complicated world fell silent in an instant.
Right in front of him, he could once again sense real, solid space.
"What… is this ability?"
But just as he finished speaking, the three Edo Tensei bodies in front of him began trembling violently.
The First and Second Hokage started cracking from the inside, their pale blue souls already trying to slip out.
Among them, the soul that had been made unstable by Sarutobi Hiruzen's Dead Demon Consuming Seal shook violently.
The reanimated bodies couldn't withstand the flood of information forced into them in an instant—every part of them took fatal damage.
Because the Fourth Hokage's soul had been sealed and couldn't be called back, leaving only an empty shell, his body was the first to shatter.
The once vivid, lifelike ash of the reanimation quickly turned dull gray.
That lifelike energy quickly vanished, collapsing into a large pile of gray dust.
In the thick dust lay the body of one of the Otogakure ninja who had taken part in the Chunin Exams earlier.
With the Fourth Hokage's body falling apart, the faint blue souls of the First and Second Hokage also floated free.
Once their souls left, the bodies were quickly destroyed as well.
Only two thick piles of dust remained, along with the corpses of two Otogakure ninja who had died with their eyes wide open.
"Impossible!? The Edo Tensei has been forcefully undone!?"
Even though his mind wasn't completely clear, Orochimaru understood what had just happened.
His eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at the three bodies that kept falling, yet wouldn't stop until they were freed from the Infinite Void.
"Normal attacks can't hurt people brought back by Edo Tensei, but that feeling just now… and this place… what is it!?"
It was fear that struck straight at the soul.
Who was this kid? And what kind of Kekkei Genkai were those eyes?
Whether it was the power to destroy Edo Tensei bodies or the overwhelming flood of information that had just filled his mind in an instant—
It all left Orochimaru stunned.
To think someone could do this.
By using those eyes, he didn't even need to attack—he could completely destroy an Edo Tensei body.
Orochimaru instantly thought back to how Hatake Satoru had been toying with the three Hokage the whole time.
This guy had been playing with them from the start!
He was just entertaining himself, and when he got bored, he simply used this ability to erase the Edo Tensei bodies.
He could even control Orochimaru to the point that, even knowing Hatake Satoru was right next to him, he couldn't fight back at all.
Orochimaru twitched his fingers slightly, but other than his mind still working, he couldn't move a muscle.
Just how strong was this kid to be able to do something like this?
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