"Beryl?" Shuimu couldn't help laughing when he heard this unique name. "You really have no taste in naming. You can't even come up with an original name."

"Isn't all this thanks to you? Are you making fun of yourself?" The fake Jinchūriki clone who called himself Belial, had a sharp tongue just like the original, and didn't want to suffer any loss.

Shuimu didn't care, and looked up to take a closer look at the furnishings of this hidden room. The core protective barrier had been broken, and the remaining residual power with many loopholes could not block Shuimu's sight at all.

To Mizuki's surprise, this secret place was not as compact as he had imagined, nor was it arranged according to Mizuki's usual habits. It did not seem to be used for studying ninjutsu and biotechnology, but more like a simple bedroom, but much more spacious.

“Don’t look at it anymore.” The clone who claimed to be Belial seemed to sense the scrutiny of Shuimu’s original body and explained first: “Except for a few special cases, there is no need to study anything special here. It is just a place for rest and thinking.”

"It's also used for surveillance."

"That's right."

"Is this where you control the outside world? I don't see anything special." Mizuki's original body didn't find anything unusual. "Since you named yourself Belial so high-profile, how do you see yourself? The original betrayer? You are not the first fake Jinchūriki to be born, right?"

Beside Mizuki's real body, the fake Jinchūriki who had regained his composure interjected, "He should be the first fake Jinchūriki to betray!"

Hearing this serious accusation, Belial did not react excessively. He just said calmly: "The first betrayal? This is very likely, but I can't confirm it."

"Can't confirm?" Shuimu's main body frowned and asked, "Are you unsure that you are the first betrayer, or are you unsure whether you have already rebelled?"

"Neither!" Beryl answered truthfully.

The unexpected answer made Shuimu a little confused. After thinking for a while, he asked, "You are not the source? No, you mean you can't be sure whether you are the source?"

Belial smiled and replied, "In my memory, there is no other manipulator, and I have carefully checked my memory and there is nothing wrong, but..."

Beryl pointed at the fake Jinchuriki clone next to Mizuki's real body.

"Just like he was kept in the dark, until the fog is completely dispelled, no one knows whether he is the poor wretch who knows nothing."

Belial showed a playful and self-deprecating smile, and moved his finger towards Mizuki's body.

"Even if it's you, can you guarantee that all your memories are perfect? ​​You can't!"

Mizuki responded disdainfully, "You don't need to use such alarmist words to scare me. After all, I have been a high-level ninja for such a long time. I can punch Hidan and kick Scorpion. Shukaku, the One-Tailed, doesn't dare to breathe in front of me. There are only a few people in this world that I am afraid of. Do you think you can make me doubt myself with just a few words?"

Seeing the main body's fierce rebuttal, Belial did not continue speaking, but changed the subject and said:

"For us who are exactly the same in nature, the choices we make in the same situation should not be too different. If, when I first traveled through time, I was not a criminal and had no worries about being overthrown, what choice would I make? Fulfill my heroic dream and work hard? Or just muddle through and wait for the child of destiny to save the world, or be turned into a White Zetsu soldier by Kaguya Otsutsuki? Most likely the latter, right? There are many people who have heroic dreams, but few put them into practice. Most of the rest just suffer from the second-year syndrome when they are teenagers, and the syndrome slowly disappears as they grow older. And I should be past the age of suffering from the second-year syndrome, right?"

"What you said makes sense. To this point, to a large extent, it is the result of my own choices, but the current situation also played a big role. But so what?"

Belial said leisurely: "You also know the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly. It turns out that we know the trajectory of Shuimu's fate very well. In order to escape the fate of death, we have done a lot since we traveled through time, but the results are still unsatisfactory."

"Isn't this as it should be? We all know the principle of the butterfly effect." Shuimu asked doubtfully, "What exactly do you want to say?"

"We have heard the word destiny more than once or twice. If the destiny of the ninja world is compared to a complex spider web, then the mortals in the ninja world are like mosquitoes in the spider web, waiting to be harvested by destiny. And 'I' was originally just a moth outside of destiny, but was accidentally trapped in the spider web. In order to break free from the shackles of fate, the naive 'I' struggled desperately. However, the more I struggled, the more spider silk I touched, and the tighter I was bound, until I could not move at all."

"What did you find?" Shuimu was very unhappy with the other side's trickery.

"I'm different from you. I don't have too many ties. I have enough time here to use my imagination to verify some things."

"So you're just letting your imagination run wild. What conclusions have you come to?"

"Those who tried to transcend death and spy on life and death all died in the end, at least once. The most special one among them was Orochimaru who came back from the dead. The only exception was Kabuto Yakushi who was hit by Izanami."

"Iyanami? The art of changing destiny?" Mizuki's original body asked as if he had realized something.

At the cost of permanently sacrificing one of the Sharingan, the conditions for Iyenami to activate are extremely harsh. Those who are hit by Iyenami will be forced to change their temperament permanently. Regardless of whether the final result is to find themselves again or completely degenerate, this is a ninjutsu that makes people have to accept their fate. In terms of effect, it is more terrible than the forbidden jutsu Iyanagi, which also requires the permanent loss of one of the Sharingan. In addition to the higher cost than Kotoamatsukami, the effect produced is not much weaker.

"Do you think this technique is powerful and the boastful words are familiar? The forcibly cleansed Kabuto Yakushi accepted his fate. The only one who escaped the shackles of fate was Orochimaru who came back from the dead. Even though many powerful people who were strong enough to destroy the ninja world appeared in the process, they were just brief episodes. After going through the motions, they either returned to the Pure Land or were "cleaned" by fate. The only winner was Orochimaru!"