Chapter 236: Transcription Seal

Chapter 236: Chapter 236: Transcription Seal

When it came to the fusion of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Hyuga Kagami actually only had a superficial understanding of the process himself.

After all, there were simply too few precedents for him to use as reference.

As far as he knew, only two people had ever successfully obtained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan—Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Sasuke.

As for the unique Mangekyo Sharingan abilities possessed by the biological brothers Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna, Kagami knew nothing about them. And the ocular abilities Madara possessed after obtaining the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan were currently impossible to verify as well.

Therefore, the fusion of the brothers’ Mangekyo Sharingan held little reference value for Kagami.

That meant the only pair of biological brothers who could truly provide Kagami with some useful clues were Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke.

The unique ocular abilities of Uchiha Itachi’s Mangekyo Sharingan were Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.

Before his death, Itachi had once used the Transcription Seal to seal Amaterasu inside Uchiha Sasuke’s Sharingan, setting it so that the moment Sasuke saw Obito’s Sharingan, the Amaterasu sealed within his eye would automatically activate.

Coincidentally, when Sasuke later awakened his own Mangekyo Sharingan, he also possessed the ability Amaterasu.

This made Itachi and Sasuke the only known case thus far in which two separate pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan possessed the exact same unique ocular ability.

Hyuga Kagami couldn’t determine whether this was truly just a coincidence, or whether Itachi’s use of the Transcription Seal to seal his own Amaterasu within Sasuke’s Sharingan had indirectly influenced the Mangekyo Sharingan Sasuke would later awaken.

But this gave Kagami an idea.

Perhaps the Transcription Seal could, to a certain extent, influence the ocular abilities of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

If this conjecture was correct, then Kagami had come up with a solution that could give him the best of both worlds.

The idea itself wasn’t complicated.

He would use the Transcription Seal to seal Uchiha Hideki’s Iwato into the Mangekyo Sharingan in Uchiha Ryota’s right eye.

That way, during the fusion of their ocular powers, there might be a chance that Ryota’s right eye would inherit the unique Mangekyo Sharingan ability of Uchiha Hideki—

Iwato!

As for the original ability of Ryota’s right eye—the ability to reduce the chakra consumption of Susanoo—it was comparatively dispensable as far as Kagami was concerned.

While pondering the matter of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Kagami paced into another room within the secret laboratory.

This room had been temporarily constructed by him. Its walls had all been specially reinforced, while the surroundings were covered in sealing formulas and explosive tags powerful enough to destroy the entire room in an instant.

There wasn’t much furnishing inside.

Only two large nutrient tanks stood in the center of the room.

And the ones floating inside those nutrient tanks were none other than the two brothers whose Mangekyo Sharingan Kagami had removed one after another not long ago—

Uchiha Hideki and Uchiha Ryota.

After the previous great battle, both Hideki and Ryota had suffered injuries on top of injuries. Coupled with the removal of their Mangekyo Sharingan, their bodies had been weakened to the absolute limit.

If Kagami hadn’t treated them in time, the two of them would probably already be dead by now.

But even though Kagami’s treatment had come in time, both their bodies and minds had still suffered tremendous, irreversible damage.

It was already impossible for either of them to ever return to their peak condition.

Standing before the large nutrient tanks, Kagami quietly studied the unconscious Uchiha brothers.

For a moment, he couldn’t help but feel somewhat emotional.

The main reason Kagami had won the previous battle so easily was because both Uchiha brothers had been physically weakened and severely injured.

If the brothers had been in peak condition, and if they had been given a month to familiarize themselves with their newly awakened Mangekyo Sharingan, then there was no way Kagami could have defeated them so easily.

Putting aside those thoughts, Kagami carefully inspected the two of them from head to toe once more.

Although the Uchiha brothers had already been reduced to cripples, and even the Mangekyo Sharingan in their eye sockets had been removed, Kagami still didn’t let his guard down in the slightest.

He hadn’t omitted a single seal that needed to be placed on them. He had even injected anesthetic directly into the nutrient tanks to ensure that the Uchiha brothers would remain unconscious at all times.

Kagami had done this mainly because he wanted the two Uchiha brothers—who had contributed two pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan to him—to suffer a little less.

Although Kagami was deeply devoted to his research, he wasn’t some cold-blooded, heartless madman.

Now that he had already achieved his objective, continuing to torment them would not only be completely meaningless to him, it would also make him deeply uncomfortable.

Leaving the room where the Uchiha brothers were being held, Kagami headed back toward the experimental area while pondering,

"Before I attempt to fuse the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, I’ll have to learn the Transcription Seal first."

A sealing technique like the Transcription Seal, which was based on ocular power, had undoubtedly been developed by the Uchiha clan.

Therefore, if he wanted to learn the Transcription Seal, he would have to start with the Uchiha clan.

However, none of that was Kagami’s most pressing concern right now.

His highest priority at the moment was figuring out how to clear Shisui of suspicion.

As for how to fuse the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, whether he should clone a Fire Release clone possessing Uchiha blood, and everything else related to those matters—

Those could all be slowly considered later.

Slumped back in his chair, Kagami closed his eyes to rest while continuing to refine his plan to clear Shisui’s name.

After everything that had happened tonight, Kagami was actually quite exhausted.

It was just that he had still been somewhat excited earlier, temporarily masking his fatigue. Now that he had finished taking stock of all his gains, the exhaustion naturally came flooding over him.

After resting for a while, Kagami pulled out a map. Rubbing his forehead, he began planning various escape routes and hiding places.

After all, Kagami himself was an ANBU assigned to monitor the operation to encircle and suppress Kamigami, so he knew Danzo’s entire deployment like the back of his hand.

Therefore, no one knew better than him where it would be safest to make an appearance, or which routes would be the most convenient for retreat.

...

Early the next morning.

As usual, Shisui sent out his messenger crow before practicing his shurikenjutsu alone in the small courtyard of his home.

Clang...

Clang...

Clang...

Amid a series of metallic collisions, Shisui slowly landed after flipping through the air.

He raised his head and glanced at several targets positioned at different angles.

Seeing that a shuriken was embedded directly in the bullseye of every single target, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl upward slightly.

This technique—using collisions between shuriken to alter their trajectories in midair and strike different targets—was considered a fairly advanced shuriken-throwing technique even within the Uchiha clan.

Clap, clap, clap...

At that moment, a burst of applause rang out in the courtyard.

Shisui turned around and smiled.

"Itachi, you’re here!"

"Brother Shisui, I’m here too!"

A tiny figure suddenly darted out from behind the applauding Itachi.

Shisui smiled and teased,

"Oh, so Sasuke came too. Sorry about that—you’re so short that I didn’t see you just now."