In the inner chamber.
Uzumaki Mito looked at Aomi with a kind expression and said with a smile, "No need to be nervous, child, I've discovered you have some atypical potential..."
"This ability might help the village. Would you like me to try and activate it for you?"
Aomi nodded obediently, "Lady Mito, I will listen to you."
Uzumaki Mito smiled, placing her hand on Aomi's arm, looking into his clear black eyes, "Aomi, have you awakened your eyes? Can you show me your Sharingan?"
Aomi nodded and opened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan without hesitation.
Uzumaki Mito's face was as calm as a lake, but in her heart, she was constantly analyzing—
"Swift like a torrent, calm like the sea, I can't be wrong, this is Tobirama..."
"But deep within Aomi, there's also a very pure Uchiha essence!"
"The Chakra from Tobirama tightly envelops Aomi's exterior, as if it's devouring and transforming his body, gradually converting his inner Uchiha parts..."
In this confrontation between Senju Tobirama and Uzumaki Mito.
A certain mediocre Hokage still lost; Uzumaki Mito managed to break through his defenses.
But Tobirama hadn't completely lost.
The disguise Senju Tobirama made for Aomi successfully diverted Uzumaki Mito's thoughts to a strange place…
Uzumaki Mito recognized Tobirama's techniques.
Uzumaki Mito closed her eyes, recalling the secret forbidden jutsu research Senju Tobirama used to conduct.
After Senju Hashirama's death, freed from Hashirama's constraints, Senju Tobirama let loose, even his sister-in-law Uzumaki Mito couldn't restrain him on this matter…
Aomi's unusual situation, combined with her past memories, led Uzumaki Mito to a conjecture—
The soul, Senju Tobirama had meddled with Aomi's soul!
Throughout the Ninja World, soul-related Jutsu are extremely rare; apart from the Uzumaki Clan's "Reaper Death Seal," only the Katou Clan's "Spirit Transformation Jutsu" has achieved any success.
But coincidentally, Tobirama could acquire both these Jutsu and access related scrolls.
After much effort, Senju Tobirama developed a Soul Imprisonment Jutsu, which Uzumaki Mito was aware of.
In the original timeline, Senju Tobirama once used this jutsu to keep the dying Sasuke alive.
Uzumaki Mito pondered, continually recalling the details from back then, and how Senju Tobirama frequently hinted questions at her while developing the Soul Imprisonment Jutsu.
In the view of the Uzumaki Clan, the soul is a kind of energy that ninjas innately possess, and chakra can also transform into a soul.
Chakra is almost omnipotent; it can turn into wind, lightning, water, fire, earth; it can transform into human limbs, serve as a vessel for consciousness...
Soul, Uchiha, Senju Tobirama—these three words formed a line in Uzumaki Mito's mind, guiding her to the truth of the matter—
Tobirama developed a certain Kinjutsu, transforming his chakra into a remnant soul that roams the Ninja World, attaching itself to Aomi!
And this remnant soul has started devouring Aomi, transforming his inherent Uchiha power...
Ultimately, Aomi might turn into Tobirama's likeness, right?
After arriving at this shocking conclusion, Uzumaki Mito quickly checked the logic from beginning to end!
Tobirama studies souls, desires to eliminate the instability of the Uchiha, fears another Uchiha Izuna or Madara emerging in the future, Aomi's unusual eye powers, Tobirama's chakra eroding Aomi...
Combined with Tobirama's disregard for morality and boundaries, everything connected!
Uzumaki Mito sighed deeply in her heart:
"Tobirama, oh Tobirama, you've ultimately developed this kind of forbidden jutsu!"
"Manipulating souls, and even modifying your own soul, if your elder brother knew, I wonder how he would scold you!"
But at that moment, Uzumaki Mito also understood where the Nine-Tails' anger came from.
The Uchiha that Tobirama's remnant soul chose must have extraordinary talent, at the very least starting at a level comparable to Uchiha Izuna, possibly even reaching Uchiha Madara's extent...
Uzumaki Mito felt very conflicted.
At that moment, she didn't even know whether she should criticize Tobirama.
An Uchiha with the potential of Uchiha Izuna or Uchiha Madara, if not entangled by Tobirama's remnant soul, even with Uzumaki Mito's broad-mindedness, she would still feel uneasy.
An Uchiha of this caliber growing up wouldn't be something Sarutobi Hiruzen or Shimura Danzo could handle...
Uzumaki Mito almost figured out the truth!
Although.
It wasn't Tobirama entangling Aomi, rather Aomi found Tobirama first...
"Tobirama, is this your Will of Fire..."
Uzumaki Mito shook her head; regardless of whether Senju Tobirama's Kinjutsu crossed boundaries, he did it for Konoha.
A Hokage's remnant soul wandering above Konoha searching for Uchiha prodigies, taking almost thirty years to find a suitable target...
Only, Aomi was sacrificed.
"Aomi, I can see the Will of Fire in your heart, your eye powers are special..."
Uzumaki Mito pointed to herself and softly said, "I want to ask you to use your eye powers to help Kushina control the Nine-Tails, securing Konoha under the Tailed Beast's power for peace."
For a moment, Uzumaki Mito even considered making Aomi the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
But the idea was quickly dismissed, as Aomi already had a remnant soul of Tobirama within him inundating him.