"Really?"
Unconcealable excitement appeared on Uchiha Kagami's face.
Shimura Danzō and Sarutobi Hiruzen exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.
They hadn't expected Renya to be able to help someone awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan!
"I'll say this first—there's only a chance of success, not a guaranteed one.
"Don't get excited too early."
Renya gave him a mental precaution in advance. Even he wasn't completely sure he could succeed.
To be honest, this was his first time using his eye's dōjutsu.
Uchiha Kagami calmed down and nodded seriously.
"I understand, Renya. No matter what, I have to try!"
Right now, only Renya could help him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Even if the hope was slim, he had to try.
He wanted to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan far too much!
Only with those eyes could he deter the hawks within the clan.
Although Uchiha Kagami was ostracized by his clansmen, he had never hated them.
His only wish was to ease the conflict between the clan and the village.
Unfortunately, the clansmen didn't buy it.
Since words didn't work, he would have to rely on force to intimidate them.
Under the curious gazes of Danzō and Hiruzen, Renya and Kagami stood facing each other.
"Kagami, look directly into my eyes. Don't resist."
Renya activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and, without hesitation, used the dōjutsu of his left eye — [Inka].
A technique that imprints one's own or another person's extreme emotions onto a target.
A formidable mental genjutsu.
Such a dōjutsu was perfect for helping a Uchiha open their eyes.
As long as Uchiha Kagami wasn't the kind of prodigy who awakened a single tomoe from family extermination rage, he should basically be able to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Uchiha Kagami took a deep breath and met Renya's Mangekyō Sharingan.
...
The moment their gazes met—
A strange crimson glow erupted from Renya's left eye, and terrifying ocular power surged out instantly!
"Inka!"
It wasn't a physical attack, but a mental assault filled with negative emotions.
It forcefully broke through Uchiha Kagami's mental defenses and poured straight into the deepest part of his mind.
"Ugh—"
Uchiha Kagami let out a muffled cry of pain. His body trembled violently, and he collapsed to his knees uncontrollably.
Shimura Danzō and Sarutobi Hiruzen nervously watched Kagami's agonized expression, unsure whether Renya's genjutsu could successfully make him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Although Danzō inwardly didn't want Kagami to awaken it, it wouldn't be too much of a problem if he did.
Kagami was among the very few Uchiha who possessed the Will of Fire.
He shouldn't do anything that would go against the village.
At some point, the scenery before Uchiha Kagami suddenly changed.
The Hokage's office vanished.
He found himself alone in a desolate desert, with a crimson full moon hanging in the sky.
"Renya? Danzō? Hiruzen?" Uchiha Kagami instinctively called out to his companions.
But unfortunately, aside from himself, there was no other life in this barren desert.
A violent wind swept up sand and gravel, striking against his body.
A vast, unprecedented loneliness surged over him like a tidal wave.
This feeling came without warning.
It wasn't ordinary solitude, but the kind of loneliness as if the entire world had abandoned him.
An inexplicable panic rose in Uchiha Kagami's heart. He could only keep walking forward, trying to find a way out of this place.
He didn't know how long he walked, yet he remained within the same desert.
The loneliness inside him grew stronger and stronger, making it almost painful to breathe.
"Re… Renya…"
Despair filled his face. He desperately wanted to leave this desert.
He had no concept of time; he didn't know how long he had been here.
Every moment was torture.
After another unknown amount of time, an even stronger shock struck him.
Countless emotions he had never experienced yet felt painfully real poured into his mind — pain, anger, despair, unwillingness...
Countless intense emotions intertwined.
He "experienced" the agony of watching his loved ones die before him while he was powerless.
He "felt" the unwillingness of being betrayed by a close friend and pierced through the chest from behind.
He "saw" the fury of the entire Uchiha clan being annihilated by Renya alone.
He "realized" the despair of being trapped in the desert for an immeasurable period of time with no escape.
These overwhelming emotions were so intense he nearly fainted, as if he had truly lived through them himself.
Tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.
All of this was the extreme suffering created by Renya's Mangekyō dōjutsu, "Inka."
He worried that Uchiha Kagami wouldn't be able to endure it, so he had deliberately reduced the intensity, omitting the suffering of his second personality.
Otherwise, Kagami would have turned into a fool before awakening anything.
Severe emotional shock could indeed help a Uchiha awaken their eyes.
But if the emotions exceeded the body's tolerance, one could genuinely become brain-dead.
"No… don't… this isn't mine… ahh!"
Uchiha Kagami clutched his head and released a shrill scream in the desert.
These pains that weren't his yet felt unbearably real nearly crushed his consciousness entirely.
For self-preservation —
Or rather, for the sake of processing this surge of overwhelming negative emotions —his brain instinctively began to operate.
Chakra converged toward his brain in a way he had never felt before, and some of it suddenly flowed into his eyes.
Violent emotional upheaval — that was the key to unlocking the true power of the Uchiha!
A strange, icy force suddenly burst from deep within his eyes.
...
All the negative emotions that had nearly driven him mad vanished instantly from his mind.
In reality, the kneeling Uchiha Kagami suddenly raised his head.
His originally black pupils had turned into three tomoe sharingan.
Then the three black tomoe spun wildly, connecting, changing shape!
Finally forming a complex pattern.
The Mangekyō Sharingan!
"It worked?!" Shimura Danzō and Sarutobi Hiruzen were stunned.
They hadn't expected Kagami to awaken the Mangekyō in just a dozen seconds.
Although they didn't know exactly what he had experienced, it was obviously excruciating.
Uchiha Kagami broke free from the genjutsu, the pain still lingering in his eyes.
He gasped heavily, sweat soaking his clothes, and his gaze at Renya was filled with indescribably mixed emotions.
There was the excitement of awakening the Mangekyō — and the terror of what he had just gone through.
He slowly raised his hand to touch his eye sockets.
He could feel a powerful, unprecedented force within them.
This was the Mangekyō Sharingan awakened after enduring extreme suffering!
Renya slowly closed his left eye, a line of blood tears sliding from its corner — the side effect of using his dōjutsu.
Uchiha Kagami had just opened his mouth to thank him when his vision went black and he collapsed to the ground.
"Tch, he fainted already!"
Renya couldn't help but remark. He didn't even get to ask Kagami what his Mangekyō ability was.
"Kagami, are you alright?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen quickly stepped forward to check on him. Fortunately, it was only severe mental exhaustion causing unconsciousness; his life wasn't in danger.
At Danzō's signal, Hiruzen carried him to Konoha Hospital for treatment.
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