"There's a technique that's not technically an illusion that can change the user's appearance, which would complicate plans like 'just avoid Itachi.' It's not dismissed the same way."

"Teaching someone to use chakra is possible but not fast, so when we're escaped I can show you how to disrupt your chakra. On the way out, if combat looks likely I can put a hand on you to dismiss anything. If you felt like doing radical eye surgery, my eyes can see through almost all illusions."

"That might be worthwhile, it'd certainly be gory but I could probably go through with it sufficiently numbed up... that part doesn't require training?"

"No. Not if you specifically make an active one, but de-activating them can be hard and they drain chakra while active. The usual for implants is one eye that's kept covered with a chakra-suppressant when not in use."

"I might have infinite chakra, if that's a meaningful concept, but I also might not be able to make an active one, I can't generally make magic things and I don't know how ninja stuff counts."

"I'd assume it's not more magic than rocks? Chakra is attached to everything. And that's a meaningful concept."

"Can you drain people's chakra, to test that?"

He shakes his head. "That's a specialized ability."

"The reason I'm reserving judgment on whether chakra is or is not a special thing that I might not be able to make stuff interact with is that I think if it were attached to people where I came from someone might have come up with a way to use it."

He shrugs. "It might be something true just about this universe."

"Right down to the rocks, which is odd, but not impossible," agrees Cam. "Some worlds have wacky laws of gravitation. Actually over the sample I know about roughly half of worlds have wacky laws of gravitation. Anyway, since that might just not work and we apparently can't check if I have any chakra let alone infinity of it I'll at least postpone the eye surgery." He acquires mirrored sunglasses.

"Sensible." He tries to summon Shiromi, but she doesn't respond - "They're probably not done."

"Should we wait for them, how are we on time?"

"We maybe have two hours, but it's best to leave before then. I don't know how long they'll take."

"Does this supervillain lair have any features that are hard to walk on? I have very poor balance."

"It's paved with even stones, mostly. There's stairs between us and the exit. If no one's looking I can just carry you."

"I can manage stairs if I'm leaving the wings and tail on, they help."

Nod. "It might still make sense for me to pick you up if we're running. I'm faster than most shinobi."

"Yes, go ahead and pick me up if we specifically have to run, I can't run without falling down. I can fly about fifty miles an hour, I don't know how fast a shinobi is. If I make a shuttle it'll do a few thousand miles an hour."

He does some math. "Short tactical bursts, I could maybe catch the shuttle. Long-distance, more like a hundred miles an hour for sustained, a few hundred if I'm rushing somewhere. I'm on the upper end of the scale, though."

"That's really fast."

"Chakra strengthens muscles and can be used to directly accelerate."

"Apparently! So, run out if we can't saunter, then switch to shuttle."

He nods.

"Do you have any more questions?"

Please say no, Sasuke's brain is exhausted, and he's probably going to have to talk to get them out.

"Am I going to need to say anything? How should we best disrupt this circle before we leave?"

"I can use an earth technique to lift the ink. And no, I'll do any talking."