Danzo Shimura's crude attempt to change the subject wasn't cutting it. He'd always been stubbornly headstrong suddenly cowering clashed with his image. But what could he do? One was Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage called God of Shinobi, and the other was his teacher, the Second Hokage. You can't just headbutt them.
Hashirama Senju: Oh! Brother, how many forbidden jutsu did you invent?
Tobirama Senju: ??? You ask me? Who else? When I said I invented jutsu, you tossed me the scroll, I didn't even have time to think!
Tsunade: Good grief, so nobody knows the answer?
Tobirama Senju: Well… over a hundred for sure! But name any forbidden jutsu and I'll recognize it!
Tsunade: !!!
Hashirama Senju: Then what do we do ask one by one?
System: Judging Hashirama Senju's answer ("1"), incorrect! Penalty: revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
Hashirama Senju: !!! Three more gone!
System: Judging Hashirama Senju's answer ("3"), incorrect! Penalty: revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
Hashirama Senju: !!! This is a joke I give away jutsu for free!
Tobirama grabbed Hashirama's arm if this continued, Hashirama's low-tier jutsu would be stripped away.
Tobirama Senju: Brother, calm down your jutsu have always been free!
Hashirama cocked his head: "Oh, really?"
"Of course! Since childhood, any jutsu you saw as difficult, you'd clap your hands and perform it!"
"I suppose that's true…"
Sarutobi Hiruzen and Minato Namikaze watched in stunned silence everyone knew Tobirama's forbidden jutsu were endless, yet Hashirama had no idea.
Fourth Raikage Darui: You only realize now?
Mizukage Mei Terumi: Um… I suspected his Versailles style but had no proof!
System: Initiating question!
System: How many forbidden jutsu did Tobirama Senju invent?
System: Correct reward: one random forbidden jutsu ×1 (worth 800,000 gold); wrong penalty: unknown!
System: Numeric answers only answer carefully.
Hashirama Senju: That's the question?
Tsunade: It's my Second Hokage's life work do you think we wouldn't know?
System: Judging Tsunade's answer ("2"), incorrect! Revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
Tobirama Senju: …No, I actually don't know!
Tsunade: You don't know your own inventions?
Fourth Raikage Darui: I dub you "Most Reckless," Fifth Hokage!
Hashirama Senju: Fifth Hokage? Surely you wouldn't gamble away Konoha?
System: Judging Darui's answer ("5"), incorrect! Revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
System: Judging Hashirama Senju's answer ("5"), incorrect! Revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
Tobirama Senju: If Lady Tsunade's clueless, all of you are idiots!
Fourth Raikage Darui: Ahem, honest mistake.
Hashirama Senju: Would she really risk everything?
Tsunade: Of course not!
Shizune: Not her style.
Orochimaru: When Tsunade took office, the village was near ruin, no one could break the Four Violet Ward.
System: Judging Orochimaru's answer ("4"), incorrect! Revoke three random C-rank jutsu!
Hashirama Senju: Exactly, nobody could penetrate that ward then!
Tobirama Senju: If that ward could stop my Water Severing Wave, I'd be silent.
Hiruzen Sarutobi: …
System: Resuming Forbidden Techniques Masters' daily life broadcast.
Orochimaru cackled hidden away, "They returned so easily? Use Edo Tensei now!"
Tobirama Senju: That name sounds epic must be a handsome master!
Hashirama Senju: Solo missions are easy clone works while true body rests.
[End of Chapter 12]