"Mind Transfer Jutsu!"
Asuna slowly stood, drawing the slender sword at her waist. The tip of her blade pointed directly at her own throat.
"Hyuga Kirito, this is where it ends!"
The sudden arrival of Yamanaka Fū shattered the deadlock, tipping the scales of battle dramatically.
"You came just in time," Danzo murmured. It wasn't resolve or injury keeping him down, he could still stand. The truth was, the old fox was simply feigning weakness, hoping to lure Kirito into a false sense of security for a lethal counterattack. But now that reinforcements had arrived, that act was no longer necessary.
"Danzo-sama… your chakra!" Fū was stunned. Though Danzo looked unharmed, his chakra reserves were nearly drained dry. Fū had never seen him in such a state.
He had sensed Danzo's depleted condition even before reaching the scene. To push someone like Danzo to this point… their opponent had to be a monster. Fū had wisely abandoned any plans for a direct attack, instead, he went straight for the hostage play.
Logically, it was the best move. But what Fū didn't know was that Kirito had already reached the end of his strength. The only thing keeping him standing was sheer willpower. If Fū had launched his jutsu from behind instead of going for Asuna, it might have ended already.
Even now, the end was near.
Kirito's sword, Sode no Shirayuki, slipped from his grasp and scattered into melting snow. It wasn't just because Asuna was being threatened, he no longer had the strength to hold a weapon.
"So this is it…"
He had exhausted every last drop of chakra. His Arsenal was sealed off. His personal stats might rival a Jōnin's, but he still depended too much on his system. Without chakra, he couldn't summon a single weapon. Even his equipped items, Swift Boots and Phantom Cloak, had auto-unequipped once their chakra requirements were unmet.
He had nothing left.
Danzo stood up slowly. Kirito made no move.
Still cautious, Danzo didn't approach right away. He checked his right arm, only one Sharingan remained active. Izanagi was still running.
"To be safe…" he muttered.
Danzo slowly removed the bandage from his right eye, revealing another Sharingan.
But this one, was different.
As it opened, veins bulged red around his eye. Danzo channeled the last of his chakra into that eye alone.
"Release!"
His chakra spiked with a sinister, oppressive pressure.
The Sharingan transformed. The tomoe twisted into a pinwheel, like a windmill shuriken.
Mangekyō Sharingan.
Kirito could sense the power shift, but it was already too late. Even a regular Chūnin could kill him now.
Danzo stepped forward.
"You've been stubborn, rebellious. Violence couldn't break you. But this will."
With Mangekyō's heightened perception, he saw it clearly: Kirito's chakra was empty. No tricks and traps.
Danzo ended Izanagi. There was no point maintaining it now.
The earlier battle had already burned through nine of the Sharingan embedded in his right arm. It was mostly due to his inefficient, incomplete mastery of Izanagi, but still, Kirito had managed to "kill" him nine times. That spoke volumes of the boy's strength.
Thankfully, Danzo had a dozen more Sharingan in storage, spoils from the Uchiha Massacre. Each one was a weapon. None would be wasted.
Danzo grabbed Kirito by the throat, lifting him with one hand.
Kirito didn't resist.
His breath came in ragged gasps. His vision blurred.
But something was wrong.
This wasn't just exhaustion. His body and chakra might have been empty, but in life-and-death moments, humans often broke past their limits. Yet Kirito felt… nothing. No spark. No survival instinct.
His body was paralyzed. His mind, awake.
Danzo sneered. "Finally given up?"
He extended two fingers and pried open Kirito's eyes.
The Mangekyō flared.
"Kotoamatsukami."
The Uchiha's ultimate genjutsu, able to rewrite someone's will without their knowledge.
Danzo trusted no one. Not even his most loyal subordinates, Fū and Torune, had been spared. Both had Kotoamatsukami cast upon them. For Kirito, there was no chance he'd rely on brute submission. This jutsu was the only way.
"Agh…" Kirito winced. His eyes felt like they were being pierced by burning steel.
His vision dimmed.
Then-
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!!"
A bloodcurdling scream snapped him back to reality.
"My eye! My eye!"
Danzo staggered, clutching his right eye. His left eye stared wide in disbelief.
Kirito's irises, once dark, now glowed silver.
"…A Byakugan?!"
Danzo's voice trembled with disbelief. "Impossible! The Byakugan can't resist the power of Mangekyō!"
But then-
Kirito's eyes shifted again. The silver hue receded, and from the edges of his pupils bloomed a vast, starry blue.
Something entirely different had awakened.
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