“Hmm . . .” Mito probed Shiki with her Mind’s Eye of The Kagura, attempting a more invasive method of analysis.
The core of the problem was something she had figured out as soon as she took a first analysis, Shiki was trapped deep within his own mind, aremely deep introspective state arising from chakra enhanced meditation.
Mito had no idea how Shiki mao get into such a state but ohere, it became nearly impossible t him without inflig spiritual damage. The more invasive probing was meant to figure out a way to do precisely that.
The normal procedure would be trying to coax the subject out of the depths of their mind through the use of genjutsu to simute important things, people or pces to the subject, thus stimuting them into awakening on their own.
Unfortunately, Mito simply did not know anything personal enough about Shiki that could thus stimute him and based on the inquiry she had her servants make wheiced him, her did the people of the orphanage.
‘It seems the only option is to try and ect with him directly and try to personally coax him out.’ Mito cluded.
‘The Yamanaka would be more suitable for such a task but . . .’ Mito paused, pting whether she should call such a specialist over.
With her influence, she could get the best to e with all haste, no problem at all but still . . .
‘I’ll give it a light try myself and if I feel it could hurt him or I fail to pull him out . . . Then I’ll call a specialist over.’ Mito decided.
With her highly advanced Mind’s Eye of The Kagura, boosted by the ability to sehe deepest emotions in others, courtesy of the creature she hosted within her, Mito was fairly fident in her ability to ect with Shiki’s spirit and bring him out of his state.
As she made her first attempt however, Mito realized her s were unfounded.
Unlike a normal mind, or one uhe trol of a third party, there was simply ao intrusion, in fact, it was as if Shiki’s state ihers into his mind instead.
This was not a wholly unknown effect, certain types of genjutsu or even drugs make others more pliable to manipution and and which also produces a simir effect of g resistance against intrusion by means of genjutsu.
However, g resistao intrusion and helping intruders iwo very different things, a distinito seemed not to have made.
It was an uandable mistake, the uniqueness of the situation made experie very useful and the mental domain was not her true specializatioe Mito’s sensory abilities infringing upon that domain.
As she dived into Shiki’s mind, Mito felt an otherworldly sense of pead detat.
Memories from his sed life revealed themselves all around her in the form of clear watery windows but it was clear Shiki himself lived wholly unbothered with his surroundings, after many failed attempts to create bonds, the other children and even the adults stopped trying.
It was a life of detat, as if nothing worthy of his attention, his iment and attat had appeared before him.
Diving deeper, Mito searched for the core of his mind, where meaningful memories could be found, hopefully along with his dormant sciousness.
In the middle of her search however, Mito came to a startling realization.
‘I o longer feel the way back!?’
At some point in her dive,Mito’s e to her physical body had been severed.
‘No . . . Not severed.’ She sensed.
‘I still feel it but it is . . . Blurred somehow?’
It was hard to expin but the fact of the matter was she could no longer use that e to pull herself out of Shiki’s mind.
Mulling over her predit for a short moment, Mito cleared her thoughts.
‘I shall keep looking for the boy’s sciousness. Perhaps I guide him in the process of awakening from deep meditation and that will get us both out.’ She decided.
‘And if not . . . Well, somebody will find us and the Yamanaka will owe me one less favor.’ Mito mused.
She was there during the founding of Konoha; few established s of the vilge did not owe her some favors, not to mentiohority she anded by merit of both her identity and strength.
She was Mito, Princess of the Uzumaki, Wife of the First Hokage, Jinchuriki of the ails and Konoha's stro kunoichi.
After wandering around some more, slowly losing her sense of time while sifting through more unimportant memories of Shiki, Mito decided to ge her approach.
‘Perhaps by following the older memories, I find the core of this boy’s mind. The memories seem to be somewhat anized based on time so it makes a certain sense.’
Uhat assumption, Mito decided to try and find the older memories from when Shiki was younger, slowly managing to grasp a heading based on her search.
And, after an uermined period of time, the differehodology bore fruit.
Wading through blurred memories captured by infant senses, yet to develop enough to take in the surroundings and form coherent memories, Mito found a spiritual body, seemingly asleep, at the core of it all.
‘There he is . . .’ She inwardly muttered.
However, before Mito could even decide on her following course of a, Shiki’s eyes suddenly sprang open and pinned her in pce.
Their gazes crossed but before anything could even take pce, Shik instinctually ejected the fn presen his mind and Mito, after a blurring of her sciousness, found herself in her own body, in the real world, once again.
As for Shiki, he abruptly sat up in Mito’s bed, trying to grasp the unfamiliar surroundings.
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Rewinding time a bit, once he lost sciousness in the real world and sunk deep into his mind, Shiki was not at all worried.
In fact, he thought he was still sitting in positioating as usual, only in a deeper state as a result of his test efforts.
At the core of his mind, wonder was all there was to be felt.
Memories fshing, his entire first life and his short sed being recollected in perfect detail in a fsh.
His thoughts sharpened and sped up to seemingly impossible levels.
Free of the straints of the flesh, Shiki’s Spirit Body surged in power with the assistance of his mysterious True Body behind it.
tless theories about chakra and its properties came a as Shiki’s knowledge and imagination worked at incalcuble levels, guided by the higher awareness of his True Body and approag the mysteries of the world, step by step.
In this miraculous state, Shiki quickly realized the dangers of his self genjutsu attempts.
‘I’m luot to have turned into an idiot or a prisoner in my own mind.’ He thought.
Metaphysical shivers ran through his body.
Being trapped in an unmoving body was bad enough, if Shiki went a step further and ended up trapped inside his mind before he could even properly enjoy his new life . . .
‘I don’t even want to think about it. I probably would’ve gone mad in no time.’ He pondered.
Though sidering his reckless experimenting and self guided practice that robably “a touch” too extreme, Shiki’s supposed sanity was in fact up for debate.
Pushing such demotivational thoughts out of the way however, Shiki moved on to more important things.
‘Though I’m fident I at least approach this miraculous state again, I doubt it will be as effective then so I should capitalize on this opportunity.’ He swiftly cluded.
It was a state achieved through d ce, very much akin to the so-called “sudden enlighte” often spoken about in cultivation novels Shiki had read in his past life.
‘First my breathing teique, then my self-genjutsu and then s new ideas.’
Listing his order of business, Shiki got to work on reviewing his self-made breathing teique, the “Nirvana Art: Three Bodies Breathihod” to try and further refi by taking advantage of his currently increased mental and spiritual capabilities.
It was then that, unbeknownst to Shiki himself, trouble came in the physical world.
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