He had seen too many members of the Uchiha Clan, and before their minds turned extreme, they were just like Aomi.
Gaining love and losing love is just one aspect; if even one's true self becomes blurred, it's an even more terrifying mental disorder!
Yet, Senju Tobirama really didn't know what to say...
After a long while, Senju Tobirama abruptly turned around and met Aomi's gaze, his eyes full of sincerity, but he could only utter a line of dry and powerless explanation:
"Aomi, these are really just coincidences, trust me!"
"About Uchiha Izuna... I did keep it from you, that was my mistake!"
"But the forbidden techniques Monkey and Mito talked about are just nonsense. Your Adamantine Sealing Chains were her handiwork, Aomi, for the past month or two, Mito has been secretly infusing Chakra into your body!"
"Everyone misunderstood, in the past I might have been obsessed with Kinjutsu, but you are really just the reincarnation of mine and Uchiha Izuna's Chakra..."
Senju Tobirama seemed to have caught a chance: "The reincarnation theory, Aomi, you have read so many ancient texts, you must have heard of it, right?"
Aomi silently nodded.
This theory, in the thousand-year history of the Uchiha and Senju, is like a ghost story or folklore, never officially recognized, yet it's talked about enthusiastically as a topic of idle chatter.
"That guy Uchiha Izuna, his Chakra attached to your body!"
Senju Tobirama said extremely earnestly, "As his rival, I suspect that my Chakra probably followed him to your body, which is why there are consecutive things like soul summoning, tandem explosive tags, and passing power to you..."
"Tobirama, don't you find this logic somewhat flimsy?"
Aomi chuckled lightly: "Lord Mito and Sarutobi Hiruzen used the experiments you once conducted as evidence, and you, the renowned scientist and inventor of the Ninja World, are trying to fool me with street ghost stories?"
"If you want me to believe this as the truth, you might as well first believe I am the Six Paths Sage..."
Senju Tobirama fell silent.
Today, he learned a profound lesson—that in this world, such coincidences meeting countless other coincidences, which are completely different from logical deduction, can really happen!
Senju Tobirama fell into a panic; he no longer knew how to continue explaining.
But just then.
Aomi slowly sighed, "Forget it, these things don't matter, Tobirama."
Senju Tobirama's eyes brightened, yet his heart grew increasingly tense.
What doesn't matter?
Aomi's words had an air of carefreeness, but they also seemed somewhat world-weary!
"Whether I am a product of Kinjutsu or the reincarnation of your and Uchiha Izuna's Chakra, my current situation remains unchanged..."
Aomi gazed at his own hand, seemingly talking to himself:
"Even if you seem to be controlling me, I thought about it, and what I want to do are things I decided to do myself, whether it's covering retreat for Master Tsunade, or helping Uncle Duy, Guy, or Hachida, Asuma, Inada Kojiro..."
"I just want the people around me to have a better life, at least better than their original lives..."
"So, I may need to thank your choice; whether it's reincarnation or Kinjutsu, these have at least provided me with power to accomplish more things I want to do."
Senju Tobirama stared dumbfounded at Aomi, as if he saw Aomi's gold-like shining heart!
Such a heart, Senju Tobirama didn't even want to use the term Will of Fire to describe it; it wouldn't suffice to encompass it...
Aomi looked at the stunned Senju Tobirama and smiled:
"Anyway, whether you like it or not, I have plans to find a way to revive you, you are also someone close to me, and you died with so much regret, plus you haven't experienced much of life yet..."
"Why dwell on these things? At this moment, I feel my life is great, and I don't want to consider whether Lord Mito's logic is correct or if you deceived me."
Aomi sighed, pressing down on Senju Tobirama's shoulder: "Without your power, perhaps I would have died in that battle with Kakuzu..."
"So, even if you deceived me, I, this miserable Konoha Genin, can only forgive Lord Hokage, what else could I do?"
"Just consider me the Six Paths Sage, I don't believe Lord Mito's words, I believe in you, Tobirama."
Senju Tobirama abruptly turned his head, his emotions stirred complexly by Aomi's words.
Up until this moment, Aomi was still speaking of reviving him because he couldn't bear seeing him die with regret...
[Detection of similar or complementary special talents reached the standard for fusion——]
[Currently combinable——Power of Senju Tobirama, Uchiha Madara's Regret]
[Combine?]
[Combining…]
[You have obtained the Power of Tobizen!]
[Power of Tobizen]: 1) Senju Tobirama's soul will automatically nourish Uchiha Izuna's eye powers, enhancing them!
2) You can actively extract the power of Senju Tobirama, ignoring his subjective will, but unable to exceed the limit.
Aomi raised an eyebrow.
Does this seem to underestimate him somewhat?
To put it bluntly, the power of Senju Tobirama now has to be offered for him to take!
Yet unable to exceed the limit, with just a slight nudge of eye power, a certain Second Hokage would strike with full force like a cat seeing a mouse...
Perhaps, the system originally intended for Aomi to fiercely confront everyone, not to make confrontation targets all become his wings...
Senju Tobirama helplessly sensed the increase of Uchiha Izuna's eye power but already felt too weary to bother.
Aomi's gold-like heart had already left him, the initial interpreter of the Will of Fire, feeling somewhat ashamed in comparison...
The dialogue within Aomi's body came to a preliminary end.
And in the Hokage Office.
Tsunade pondered for a long time and asked a question that Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to ask but didn't dare, "Grandmother Mito, how should we regard Aomi then?"
"Should we see him as Second Grandpa, or as Uchiha Izuna, or as a Jinchuriki like the Nine-tails?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen pulled himself together, paying utmost attention to this question.
The complex situation with Aomi, only Uzumaki Mito could offer a reassuring explanation and approach so far.
Involving both Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt like he was back as a Genin, listening to the legendary stories of long-renowned Jonin.
Tsunade's eyes were filled with tension; she paid special attention to this question.
Deep in her heart, there was a voice that seemed to resent the presence of her Second Grandpa's Chakra within Aomi...
Uzumaki Mito glanced at Aomi, then at Tsunade and Sarutobi Hiruzen, and smiled softly...