Late at night, Senju Tobirama's laboratory.
This laboratory had been built at great expense when Renya first created it; inside were the most advanced devices and instruments of the shinobi world at the time, making experiments far more powerful and precise.
At this moment, Renya lay unconscious, his limbs tightly bound.
A thick stack of files was spread out before Senju Tobirama — all of them experimental data. He wanted to know exactly when Renya's body had begun to malfunction.
Every experiment had recorded Renya's bodily metrics, so finding the problem shouldn't be especially difficult.
Soon his flipping stopped abruptly; his gaze fell on the data from the ninety-ninth experiment. It recorded that, during that period, because of the merging of bloodlines, Renya's mental state had become unusually active.
At first he hadn't thought much of it, but now it was clear that from that experiment onward, a separate personality had split off inside Renya's body.
"I didn't expect the problem started back then." Senju Tobirama murmured, then checked Renya's very first experiment.
After who-knows-how-long, he finished reading all the reports. Indeed, from that experiment onward Renya's spiritual energy had been growing — slowly but steadily.
Although he had noticed this at the time, he hadn't paid it much mind. Back then Renya's bodily indicators were all rising, so Tobirama assumed the growth in spiritual energy was fine.
And Renya was, by nature, an Uchiha — it wasn't unusual for him to have strong mental power.
No one would have thought that such a small oversight would sow this trouble.
Tobirama looked at the unconscious Renya with a determined expression and said,
"Kid, I will cure your illness."
He would not allow that thing to take control of Renya's body and run wild. He didn't intend to tell Renya about this — he would cure him in his own way.
Once Renya's ailment was cured, he would never experiment on him again!
But for now Tobirama had no starting point; he didn't know how to completely eliminate that thing…
Still, he trusted himself. Give him some time and he'd come up with a solution.
While he watched Renya, Renya's eyelashes trembled; he slowly opened his eyes — the black pupils turned scarlet, and three black tomoe gradually appeared in his eyes.
"You old man, the four hundred and eighty-first already!" Renya said coldly, staring at Senju Tobirama, a bitter smile curling his lips. "I thought you might take it easier, but you've only gone further."
He had warned the old man earlier today; he hadn't expected to be lying on the cold examining table that very night.
He had already experienced this feeling — limbs tightly bound, unable to move a fraction — for four hundred and eighty-one nights.
If he weren't concerned about the original body's feelings, he would have killed that old man long ago!
"You're back again." Tobirama's expression was calm.
He was clueless about this whole matter and could only see whether he could coax some information from this fellow.
This presence had awakened in the middle of the fourth experiment — the last time he'd woken was eleven years ago, when Renya had just turned ten…
That night, Tobirama had, as usual, given Renya a sedation milk and brought him into the laboratory for various studies.
Halfway through the experiment Renya suddenly opened his eyes and roared angrily,
"Old man, experimenting on me again!"
Honestly, Tobirama had been startled.
He hadn't expected Renya to wake from his coma — something that had never happened in over ten years.
Just as he was thinking how to make an excuse, he realized the Renya in front of him didn't seem like the boy he knew; it was as if someone else had taken his place…
"Old man, experimenting on me every day!"
"I'll have someone come and kill you one day!"
There was no way the boy he knew would ever speak like that!
Tobirama tried to speak, but Renya had already fallen back into a coma.
From that moment on, whenever Renya fell asleep there was a small chance another personality would awaken.
As time passed, that presence began appearing more and more frequently.
Each time it woke, it would go to the Hokage Office to mock and ridicule him, seeming to take pleasure in seeing him embarrassed.
Whenever Tobirama questioned it about the origin of its appearances, it refused to answer, only claiming that its emergence had something to do with his experiments…
Tobirama kept searching for a method, but first he needed to know the reason that thing appeared so he could treat it properly and eliminate it.
"Old man, not talking — are you thinking about how to get rid of me?" Renya's taunts pulled his thoughts back.
"Yes," Tobirama admitted bluntly. "You won't be around much longer. I won't let your existence affect that boy."
"Oh ho ho, you make it sound like it's definite." Renya scoffed. "I don't even know how to get rid of myself, much less you."
"You don't know, but I can." Tobirama's face grew serious. "Give me some time and I will find a way to make you disappear."
Seeing him so earnest, Renya's eyes flickered and a smile crossed his lips.
"Is that so?"
"Then I look forward to that day." he said with a smile. "Honestly, I've had enough of this life…"
"What do you mean by that?" Tobirama looked puzzled, not understanding what the fellow was talking about.
"Do you know what it's like to have thought and awareness but to have no physical sensations?" Renya murmured. "I've lived like this for more than a decade."
"I'm the same as those tailed beasts sealed inside jinchūriki."
"No — I'm worse off than those animals…"
Tobirama's brow tightened; he was about to ask when Renya interrupted him.
"Old man, you want to squeeze words out of me. That's impossible."
Tobirama: "..."
"Still, you should be thankful. Without your experiments I would never have had a chance to come out for a breath." Renya yawned. "Recess is over. I'll come out and talk to you another time."
As soon as he finished speaking, he slipped back into a coma.
Tobirama looked silently at the unconscious Renya, his thoughts in turmoil.
The information the fellow had revealed suggested he had always been inside Renya's body, and Tobirama's experiments had given him control over that body…
But some things were hard to explain: why did Renya's body have two personalities?
And the words Renya spoke might not be true — he could be trying to mislead Tobirama down the wrong path.
"No matter what, I will eliminate you!" Tobirama glanced once more at the unconscious Renya, then turned and began to sift through a mountain of documents.
"Bastard Senju Tobirama, secretly experimenting on him again!"
Would this make the boy's condition worse?
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