Senju Tobirama was stunned, a wave of unprecedented tension surged within him.
A feeling hard to describe...
Unlike being caught by his brother for developing forbidden techniques, unlike the battles with the Uchiha Clan, unlike the Ninja World War...
The tension brought by these matters was due to the consequences of things he had indeed done himself...
But Aomi's situation really, truly had nothing to do with him!
The problem lay in the fact that Uzumaki Mito and Sarutobi Hiruzen, both knowing him best, wove a perfect logical chain from his past conduct to the notes on Artificial Tailed Beasts, to his enmity with the Uchiha Clan.
So much so that even Senju Tobirama himself thought if Aomi were a product of his forbidden techniques, it might seem more appropriate to an observer than the fact of the Dual Reincarnation Body...
"Tobirama, why aren't you speaking, are you thinking of how to explain it?"
"Aomi, it's really not me, I really didn't..."
"Don't speak yet!" Aomi waved his hand.
Suddenly forgetting that he had just asked Senju Tobirama why he wasn't speaking.
But Senju Tobirama obediently closed his mouth, unsure of what he should say.
"I seem to have figured it out..."
Aomi seemed to be recalling the past and slowly said:
"You say I'm an Uchiha, so why, when troubled by the clan's conflict with the village, would I think of coming to you for a solution? Tobirama..."
Senju Tobirama quickly thought, defending himself: "Isn't that reasonable, Aomi!"
"I'm the Second Hokage, with intricate ties to the Uchiha Clan, I came up with the strategy to establish the Konoha Security Team to limit the Uchiha, I've also mentored the Monkey and Danzo, so to solve this at the root, it's natural to come to me..."
Aomi frowned: "But I remember that was exactly what I said to you back then, yet you only believed I wanted to destroy Konoha!"
Senju Tobirama's expression froze momentarily, then he awkwardly smiled and said: "Wasn't it to test you..."
"Test me, test me..."
Aomi repeated these words, for some reason, listening to Aomi's calm tone, Senju Tobirama felt a chill.
"Alright, but why is it that without even your bodily tissue, just sensing the Netherworld, your soul entered my body?"
"Could there possibly be such a misunderstanding with the Reanimation Jutsu?"
"And that Tandem Paper Bomb Jutsu, was that your doing too? Otherwise, how could I sense your Summoning Space?"
Aomi's eyes sparkled with logic: "Tobirama, what explanation will you give now..."
"Tell me the truth, was it your chakra affecting my mind, causing me to think of coming to you for solutions, thereby sensing your soul, so you entered my body..."
"According to Lady Mito, you combined your chakra with Uchiha Izuna's chakra, and even with the Uzumaki Clan's... because you wanted to create a second Nine-tails for Konoha."
"But you were more cautious than Lady Mito thought, to prevent accidents, you set up successive plans, even bringing your soul into my body, ensuring the power wouldn't go out of control..."
"After all, chakra cannot speak, but a soul can. You could even transfer power to me to suppress Uchiha Izuna's chakra, which is what you've always been doing..."
Aomi's emotions seemed somewhat out of control, his words growing quieter, even at such a distance from Senju Tobirama, his voice sounded somewhat vague.
But Senju Tobirama strained to listen to Aomi's words, his pupils constantly trembling.
How could Aomi think this way?
Indeed...
He could indeed converse with Aomi, Aomi indeed always rejected his power, indeed it was he himself who forced it upon Aomi...
And the purpose of giving Aomi that power, seemed indeed to be to suppress Uchiha Izuna?
This, this, this...
This was really all a coincidence!
Senju Tobirama hadn't even thought of how to defend himself; the ones bringing forth the arguments were none other than the most understanding Uzumaki Mito and Sarutobi Hiruzen...
Senju Tobirama never imagined, such an obvious dual chakra reincarnation body, how could you not think of it!
How could it be so foolish, so skewed, insistently arguing in favor of strange areas like human experimentation, arguing so convincingly that even Senju Tobirama was bewildered...
"Aomi, listen to my explanation..."
"Don't speak yet!"
Aomi covered his head, muttering: "I'm really foolish, really..."
"Tobirama, I was even worried you were an emotional idiot, explaining Uchiha Rin's Five-Step Technique to control Uchiha Obito, but it turns out you're a master of this method!"
Senju stared blankly at Aomi.
He could admit to knowing forbidden techniques and human experimentation, but the Five-Step Technique...
Heaven's truth, Senju Tobirama never knew that in his life!
Forget CPU, he never even dated, never even held hands in that life, how could he know such crooked methods!
Aomi raised five fingers, with a hint of a faint sadness in his tone:
"Step one, Curiosity Trap—a common Uchiha boy, inexplicably summoned the soul of the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama into his own body, naturally he would be extremely curious, wanting to explore..."