Chapter 227: Limited Tsukuyomi, Activate!
The Land of Rain, Amegakure Village.
Everything was ready.
Everyone gathered at the training ground outside the village.
Even though he had already explained it once, Orochimaru still continued to act as the commentator, explaining the mechanism of Limited Tsukuyomi again.
Limited Tsukuyomi is a low-spec version of Infinite Tsukuyomi, not a high-spec version of Tsukuyomi.
The biggest difference lies in the controllability of the illusionary world.
Whether it was Uchiha Itachi or Uchiha Hikari, both of them had absolute control over anything they themselves created within the Tsukuyomi illusion world.
It was precisely because of this that Hikari was able to turn Tsukuyomi into a "psychological illness treatment technique" and help Tsunade overcome her fear of blood.
Hikari could freely control everything about the people within the illusion.
For example, in the previous experiment of turning illusion into reality, when Kakashi took out a lump of Rin's cells, Hikari could have completely controlled Rin to counterattack with a Chidori and stab Kakashi.
She could even have made Rin transform into a second Sage of Six Paths and stuff Kakashi full of Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Don't ask whether Rin could do that. This was an illusionary world. As long as you could imagine it, it could happen.
But Limited Tsukuyomi was different.
In the world of Limited Tsukuyomi, from beginning to end, the caster could not control anything that happened inside. The only things they could do were activate it, deactivate it, and decide who was allowed to enter.
If there was a Senju Hashirama inside the illusionary world, unless the Limited Tsukuyomi just happened to define Hashirama as a complete useless weakling, then defeating him would require no less strength than defeating the real Hashirama in reality.
Therefore, anyone who entered the Limited Tsukuyomi world had to possess sufficient strength. Otherwise, they would only be a burden.
Moreover, the Limited Tsukuyomi world was even more complete than one might imagine.
If characters who originally existed in the ninja world entered it, it could trigger certain butterfly effects, such as characters who should have existed dying, falling into darkness, and so on.
Thus, in the end, it was decided that only Shiromo and Uchiha Hikari would enter the Limited Tsukuyomi world.
Everyone else would take on the roles of [spectators] and [liaisons].
The first effect of [spectating] was similar to when ordinary Tsukuyomi had been used before.
They could observe Shiromo and Uchiha Hikari's actions from a god's-eye view.
However, this effect was not the key point.
The second effect was that spectators could convert their perspective into their own perspective within the Limited Tsukuyomi world, synchronizing their senses.
Although they could not control anything, this could be used to gather information.
For example, after activation, Fū could directly switch to her own perspective to see where she was, then pass that information to Shiromo and Hikari, greatly reducing unnecessary search time.
In addition to that, the final key point was whose inner world the Limited Tsukuyomi was based on.
Infinite Tsukuyomi created a world based on each individual's inner desires. Limited Tsukuyomi, on the other hand, required manual selection, and multiple people could be chosen.
However, if multiple people were selected, the Limited Tsukuyomi world might automatically balance itself and modify the development of the world.
Too many was not good, but too few could also cause problems.
This time, the core objective of the Limited Tsukuyomi was to collect the tailed beasts, so the tailed beasts were indispensable.
Uchiha Hikari selected three people.
Fū, Yugito, and herself.
As jinchūriki, Fū and Yugito naturally had deep impressions of the tailed beasts, and both of them had a certain understanding of tailed beast power, so there was no need to worry about problems with the appearance of the tailed beasts.
If it were only Fū alone, there was concern that it would turn into a "make-friends-in-a-corner version of Limited Tsukuyomi".
So an additional, relatively rational and normal Yugito was included.
As for how Yugito, who was thousands of miles away, could serve as a core of the Limited Tsukuyomi, there was no need to worry.
Hikari's Yachihoko transmission had no distance limit. The mark left on Yugito earlier was precisely for today.
Adding Hikari herself at the end was, naturally, for the final restriction.
To prevent the world from going off course.
As core figures, both Fū and Yugito could appear as spectators, but without Hikari's permission, they still could not enter the Limited Tsukuyomi world.
For Fū, this didn't matter, since she was already here and would soon spectate directly.
The main concern was Yugito's side.
No one here knew what Yugito was doing at the moment.
But it didn't matter. Even if she was in the middle of using the toilet and hadn't had time to wipe, all they could do was apologize.
Nagato directly summoned the Gedo Statue, to transmit chakra locally and reduce transmission delay.
Kurama Yakumo timidly sat at the very front. Uchiha Hikari, holding the stone, manifested her Mangekyō and placed her hand on Kurama Yakumo's left shoulder.
On the other side, Tsunade, also holding the stone, had rainbow-colored flowing patterns spread across her entire body, and she placed her hand on Kurama Yakumo's right shoulder.
Kurama Yakumo's body had already recovered to the level of a normal person, but just in case, Tsunade still acted as a "healing fountain", preventing accidents and ensuring absolute safety.
Finally, there was Shiromo. There was nowhere for his hand to go, so he simply placed it on Hikari's hand.
Double reinforcement, no problem.
Limited Tsukuyomi, activate!
At the same time, Yugito and Samui were meeting at the border of the Amegakure Village.
The diplomacy between the Iwagakure Village and the Sunagakure Village had gone extremely smoothly, without the slightest obstruction, and the alliance had been concluded.
Thus, the two followed their prior agreement and headed together toward the Amegakure Village.
"Hm?"
Yugito raised her hand and saw the Yachihoko mark on it begin to glow, immediately sensing that something was wrong.
"Yugito, what's wrong?"
Urgency immediately appeared on Samui's normally indifferent face.
"Don't come closer, I…"
Yugito didn't know what was happening, but she had a very bad feeling.
However, before she could finish speaking, Samui stepped forward and grabbed her hand which had the mark.
Buzz.
In the next second, the environment around the two of them underwent a drastic transformation.
Just moments ago, they had been in a forest during the daytime. In an instant, they were transferred into a pitch-black night sky.
"Huh? Why are there two? Forget it, whatever."
A voice sounded beside their ears.
"Who's there?"
"Who is it?"
Yugito and Samui, shaken and alarmed, looked around.
"Don't panic, it's me. I…no, it's Shiromo. He's asking you… mainly the Two-Tails jinchūriki, to help with something."
Hikari corrected herself halfway through, hurriedly changing her words to avoid forming a bond.
"What kind of help? What is this place?"
"Why did we suddenly appear here? Is this space-time ninjutsu?"
"This is a Limited Tsukuyomi I used by imitating Infinite Tsukuyomi. The purpose of using it is, of course, to save the ninja world."
When Uchiha Hikari mentioned saving the ninja world, she felt a bit guilty.
After all, her true goal was to destroy the current bond-based ninja world created by Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, and create a new one.
"You probably didn't fully believe what we told you before, right? Then this time, experience it properly."
"Remember, no matter what you see, don't get emotional. You only have the right to watch. You can't change anything."
After saying her last sentence, Uchiha Hikari stopped paying attention to the two of them.
(End of this Chapter)