Could this old guy have installed a surveillance device on me or something?
How else would he know that I secretly went to see Madara-sama?
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Renya immediately reacted.
This old guy is definitely trying to trick me!
If he really knew I had secretly met Madara-sama, he wouldn't be speaking in this kind of tone.
"There's nothing like that." Renya said with feigned calmness. "I haven't seen Madara in several years."
He had told this kind of well-intentioned lie more than once already; he was long past the point of stumbling over it.
He could even say it without his face reddening or his heart skipping a beat.
Senju Tobirama looked at Renya with suspicion, trying to read something from his expression.
Unfortunately, the kid's face was filled with nothing but innocence.
Could it be that I really misunderstood Renya and Madara?
No, that's not right—this kid is definitely lying!
If he hadn't secretly met Madara, how could his condition have relapsed?!
He had always believed that Renya's split personality was inseparable from Uchiha Madara.
Looking at it this way, this kid is absolutely lying.
"Hmph, it'd better be just like you said." Tobirama snorted coldly.
It's all that innately evil Uchiha Madara's fault—he led this kid astray.
Renya used to be very well-behaved. Ever since he got to know that Madara guy, even his lies have become hard to tell apart from the truth.
It could be said that his adopted son was completely corrupted by Madara.
No wonder that second personality back then bit down hard on the claim that it was born from his experiments.
At the time, Senju Tobirama had blamed himself for a long while because of that.
Now that he thought about it, this must have been Uchiha Madara's plot!
Deliberately sowing discord between him and Renya.
Then tricking Renya into leaving the village to follow Madara and carry out the "Eye of the Moon" plan.
In that case, the truth of that year had already come fully to light.
Uchiha Madara must have used some method to cause another personality to appear inside Renya.
Then, through the mouth of the second personality, he dumped all the blame onto himself.
Using that to affect the relationship between him and Renya, trying to make Renya fall to darkness and defect from the village.
Ultimately joining Madara's camp.
The more Senju Tobirama thought about it, the more reasonable and logically consistent it all seemed.
Fortunately, back then he had completely resolved the second personality and shattered Madara's ambitions.
And since Renya had been taught by him from a young age, he wasn't like those arrogant Uchiha clansmen.
He wasn't so easily driven to extreme emotions.
Even after learning that he had been used as an experimental subject, he had merely left the village to clear his head.
He hadn't let Madara's scheme succeed!
Renya truly lived up to being a child personally cultivated by him, Senju Tobirama, from a young age.
If it had been any other Uchiha, they really might have been tricked away by Madara.
"Kid, have you felt anything strange lately?"
Senju Tobirama asked tentatively, hoping to infer the state of the kid's condition from subtle clues.
"Everything's normal."
Renya didn't know why this old guy was asking that, but he still answered honestly.
Every day, aside from lying in his tent to rest, he went to the battlefield to provide support.
The only thing he felt was unpleasant was that it rained every day in the Land of Rain.
He couldn't lie around sunbathing like he could in Konoha.
Senju Tobirama frowned slightly upon hearing this, but didn't say anything.
It seemed the kid hadn't noticed any changes in his body.
Forget it.
During this period, he planned to stay on the battlefield and see whether this kid's condition would relapse again.
"Alright, you can go rest."
Senju Tobirama waved his hand, signaling that he could leave.
Then he turned around and entered the commander's tent.
Renya: "..."
This old guy had taken over his tent—where was he supposed to go rest now?
"Renya!"
In the distance, Hiruzen and the others were waving at him. Renya could only head over to check what was going on.
"Tobirama-sensei, what did he say to you just now?"
They had been standing a bit far away earlier and hadn't heard the conversation between the two.
"Nothing."
This matter involved Madara-sama, and he didn't want to say much.
If the White Zetsu secretly monitoring him told Madara-sama about it, that would be troublesome.
Right now, Madara-sama had already become wary of him.
Following the principle of fewer matters being better than more, he'd better not mention Madara-sama's name.
"What the heck, you're not even telling us."
The group was quite dissatisfied with Renya's concealment, feeling that he simply didn't want to tell them.
But they only complained briefly and, knowing better, didn't press the issue.
Over the next period of time, Tobirama stayed in the commander's tent, secretly observing Renya's every move, but found no abnormal behavior.
Even so, he didn't lower his guard, instead observing even more carefully, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.
That second personality back then had almost left him with a psychological shadow.
He was afraid that another new personality might appear.
For several consecutive days, Tobirama didn't find anything unusual about Renya.
Usually, he rested in the tent; when the frontline fighting grew tense, he went to provide support.
Then he came back to rest again, repeating this cycle over and over.
This made Senju Tobirama start to wonder—had Renya's condition really relapsed?
Could it be that Nara Mikage had made a mistake?!
Taking advantage of a gap when Renya went to the battlefield to provide support, he questioned Nara Mikage.
"Commander, do you think Renya truly has a mental issue?"
"Second-sama, although Jonin Renya hasn't shown it recently, when he defeated the Mizukage and returned to the tent, the strange behavior he displayed was extremely suspicious!"
Nara Mikage recounted in detail everything Renya had done at the time.
"If Renya shows similar behavior again in the future, you must inform me immediately!"
Senju Tobirama said solemnly.
"I'm about to return to the village. I'll leave the rest to you."
It was impossible for him to stay on the battlefield forever; the remaining matters could only be entrusted to Commander Nara.
"I understand, Second-sama." Nara Mikage said seriously.
From the Second-sama's behavior over these past days, he had vaguely guessed that Jonin Renya had once suffered from a mental illness.
It had been cured by someone before, and now there were signs of relapse.
And when the condition relapsed, it was extremely severe—so much so that the Second-sama had personally come here.
Since the Second-sama didn't say more, he wouldn't ask further.
He only needed to be responsible for supervising whether Jonin Renya exhibited any strange behavior.
Seeing this, Tobirama said nothing more and turned to leave the tent.
The Nara clan head was a smart man; some things didn't need to be said aloud to be understood.
"When the time comes, tell that kid I've returned to the village."
..."
Dozens of meters underground.
"Madara-sama, Senju Tobirama has left the battlefield."
The White Zetsu responsible for monitoring the Konoha battlefield reported.
Uchiha Madara's tightly closed eyes slowly opened, revealing those Rinnegan eyes that radiated overwhelming pressure.
"That Tobirama has finally left."
From the very moment Tobirama headed to the battlefield, he had already received the news.
During this period, he had White Zetsu keep a close watch at all times.
Naturally, he knew the reason Tobirama had come to the battlefield—worrying that Renya might develop mental problems again.
"Has this kid's condition really relapsed?"
Uchiha Madara murmured softly.
If the condition relapsed again, would it affect the plans going forward?
"Looks like it's time to find a new tool."
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