Danzo had no intention of holding back his trump card—
he directly used the "strongest genjutsu" on Uchiha Yu.
An Uchiha who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan,
an Uchiha who dared to assassinate him instead of running for his life—
Danzo deemed him worthy of full combat respect.
As for using Kotoamatsukami…
If that made it harder to suppress the masked man or Uchiha Itachi later, well—that would be the Third Hokage's problem!
In that instant—
Uchiha Yu stood frozen.
Inside his mind, his neural pathways felt like reprogrammed code, waiting for foreign will to overwrite his thoughts and identity.
It was a power he couldn't resist.
It ignored ocular resistance.
It ignored willpower.
This Yin chakra was a perfect match for the structure of the human brain.
It could slip seamlessly into any part of the sensory system.
And then—
It would weave an alternate reality, one the victim would never notice, never escape.
A world not belonging to the victim,
but entirely controlled by the user.
Kotoamatsukami...
This Mangekyō technique, known as the "strongest genjutsu," could only be used once every ten years or more.
But for the one affected by it—
it meant a lifetime of manipulation.
From afar, seeing Uchiha Yu suddenly frozen, the Uchihas gasped, stepping back, bodies rigid.
Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Minami, and the rest of the Uchiha looked on as if they were watching their own future unfold.
Yu's assassination attempt had failed.
Danzo's reinforcements—the Third Hokage and a large squad of ANBU—were already on their way.
They would end up just like the clansmen who died by Itachi's hand tonight—
buried in the past, reduced to dust in history.
Meanwhile, the Root members finally relaxed.
Their Lord Danzo had lived up to his reputation—neutralizing such a deadly ambush with ease.
None of them showed emotion over the comrades lost to Danzo's Wind Style.
For them, to die by Danzo's hand was an honor.
One Root captain glanced at the nearby Uchihas and sneered:
"Stragglers. Just die already."
The Uchihas' faces turned pale.
They couldn't even bear to look at Yu's fate.
Instead, they instinctively moved to shield Izumi and the badly wounded Tamao.
If they were to die…
Then they'd die together.
Izumi noticed Tamao's battered body was trembling. She wanted to speak, but then—
She saw him—blood-soaked, eyes burning with a three-tomoe Sharingan—
stand up, straighten his back, and roar:
"Big Brother didn't lose!!!"
From childhood to now, in Tamao's eyes, everything Yu said, he always did.
Back then, he said he'd get him out of the hospital, and he did, despite the clan's objections.
Now Yu said he'd lead them to take revenge, and he brought them here to cut down Danzo!
Even if his brother died—
He still didn't lose!!
The other Uchihas, however, lowered their heads in silence.
"I'll give you a swift death," Danzo growled viciously.
His fingers had already ripped out Yu's left eye, blood arcing through the air.
The genjutsu-bound Yu staggered backward.
"Heh…"
Danzo didn't show it on his face, but inwardly, he was more ecstatic than when he took Shisui's Mangekyō.
He had just acquired another control-type Mangekyō!
Happiness had come far too suddenly.
Danzo lowered his head and looked at the Sharingan in his hand,
then directly embedded it into the hollow eye socket on the back of his right hand.
This cloned arm, infused with Hashirama cells, could perfectly withstand the shock of multiple Sharingan ocular powers.
Its surface was lined with rows of pitch-black sockets.
Once the Sharingan merged in, the socket on the back of the hand enveloped the eye as if it were a real eye socket.
Logically speaking—
When Yu previously used his Mangekyō to exert mental control over him,
it should have been Danzo's Kotoamatsukami chakra that acted as the first line of defense against invading ocular powers.
However, his Hashirama-cell-infused right arm had subconsciously taken precedence over his brain, using the remaining three-tomoe Sharingan's chakra in the arm to fend off the Mangekyō—
which ultimately caused Danzo's mind to fall under the control of Yasakani
Danzo understood—
This happened because in his aged body, the influence of Hashirama's cells had grown stronger than even his own mind.
He currently had no way of controlling the cells within his body—
and they had nearly gotten him killed.
"Hmph. As long as I still draw breath, nothing will escape my control!
You naturally evil little Uchiha brat…
Prepare to be judged by fate!"
Danzo squinted his aging eyes, stepping slowly toward the retreating Uchiha Yu.
With Kotoamatsukami, he altered Yu's will, forcing him to freeze in place—
and stand there obediently, ready to be executed.
Yu stood motionless.
Up until now, Danzo had only acquired a single pair of three-tomoe Sharingan.
One had already been consumed when he used Kotoamatsukami to steal it from Shisui.
The remaining one had just been used to cast Izanagi, in exchange for this new Mangekyō.
A three-tomoe for a Mangekyō…
What a bargain!
He focused his senses on the new power surging from his right arm.
Danzo was already standing in front of Yu.
Just as his lips were curling into a cruel smile, ready to snuff out Yu's flame of life with his own hands—
his smile suddenly froze.
He sharply looked down at the cloned arm.
To his shock—
this Sharingan's chakra wasn't as rich as a typical Mangekyō.
Because—
Its chakra... was fading!
And not just that—
Danzo's eyes widened.
He could feel the Sharingan on his arm closing, lifeless—
and in its place, it was preparing a technique he knew all too well.
One that he himself had just used.
"Izanagi?" Danzo stared at Yu in disbelief, demanding "How do you know this forbidden technique too?!"
Blinded and plunged into darkness, having fallen under the control of Kotoamatsukami, Uchiha Yu covered his eyes in silence—
but the corners of his lips curled into a faint smile.
"No!!
You didn't even have time to form hand seals—
Not even a one-handed seal! Even if you did know Izanagi, when could you have possibly activated it?!
Izanagi requires a hand seal!"
"And another thing…
You were willing to sacrifice a Mangekyō like it was nothing? Just who the hell are you?"
Danzo's mind swirled with countless questions.
He was stunned by Yu's true identity, but even more so by his decisiveness—
someone who would so casually sacrifice a Mangekyō was far from ordinary.
Then suddenly—
a horrifying realization dawned.
Danzo's face twitched as he snarled:
"I see now!
It's a sealing inscription!
You sealed Izanagi into your Mangekyō beforehand—
and the moment you were attacked, it automatically triggered, didn't it?!"
Yu shook his head, dismissing Danzo's theory with a look of faint pity toward his rigid, outdated thinking.
At this moment—
the tide turned.
Yu's Izanagi had been activated.
He erased all unfavorable outcomes inflicted upon himself—
being affected by Kotoamatsukami,
losing possession of Kotoamatsukami,
and gained one minute of absolute control over reality-altering rules.
Danzo's own Izanagi had long since expired.
Now, it was Yu's turn to take the reins.
Suddenly, the Kotoamatsukami in Danzo's right eye socket vanished,
leaving behind a hollow, pitch-black socket.
His link to the eye was completely severed.
"Kotoamatsukami! My Kotoamatsukami!"
An agonizing surge of pain in his brain overwhelmed Danzo once again—
his spirit instantly plummeted.
"You really thought I just sacrificed my Mangekyō and placed Kotoamatsukami in my eye socket for nothing?
Izanagi can only alter outcomes that are personally unfavorable.
So I placed Kotoamatsukami into my own eye.
Then your Izanagi stole it from me.
You targeted me—
so when my Izanagi triggered,
it naturally returned Kotoamatsukami back to my eye and dispelled its effects on me."
"Also… when Kotoamatsukami briefly resided in your body,
even though you had used it before,
your internal Hashirama cells nourished it—
drastically shortening its cooldown.
I'm right, aren't I?"
Yu's right eye regained sight—
as he spoke, the symbol of Kotoamatsukami bloomed anew within it.
At the same time, he embedded the Yasakani Mangekyō into his left eye.
And thus—
His eye sockets presented a stunning contrast:
Left eye: Blade-shaped Mangekyō
— Yasakani no Magatama
Right eye: Shuriken-shaped Mangekyō
— Kotoamatsukami
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