In a mass of black smoke, a gigantic short blade shot down like a meteor chasing the moon, slicing off Kairen's lizard-like head.
"Ding!"
"Gamabunta dealt 500 damage to you!"
Gamabunta bit his big pipe, withdrew the blade at his waist, and said confidently,
"Did you see that? This is the power of the toads!"
"Is that so?!"
A faint voice sounded from within the smoke, followed by a chaotic gust that swept the smoke away.
A young man, bare-chested and wearing black pants, stood among shattered rocks, his face full of arrogance.
Gamabunta's toad eyes grew solemn. He snorted, "What an unkillable cockroach. Even after I chopped off his head, he's still fine!"
"Hey! Jiraiya, what are we supposed to do now?"
Jiraiya stood on top of Gamabunta's head, thinking carefully.
The most effective method against Kairen was Sealing Techniques—seal his Chakra so he couldn't use the Smoke Release kekkei genkai.
And he happened to have several sealing jutsu.
So Jiraiya said to Gamabunta, "Get close to him, I'll use a sealing technique to seal him."
"Got it!" Gamabunta nodded.
"Jiraiya, how about letting me lend you a hand as well!" Hiding in the shadows, Orochimaru slithered out from the earth nearby.
He had narrowly avoided Kairen's earlier frenzied assault.
"Summoning Technique!"
Orochimaru bit his finger and formed the summoning seal on the ground.
A huge burst of white smoke erupted, and a brown giant snake appeared—an ordinary giant snake from Ryūchi Cave, not as powerful as Manda.
Gamabunta drew the gigantic short blade at his waist, and the two massive beasts slowly approached Kairen.
Kairen let out a faint, cold laugh. Chakra surged across his body, and a brand-new red battle armor once again coated him.
His pitch-black eyes instantly turned blood-red, three tomoe spinning within them, exceedingly demonic.
Kairen raised his head, looking at Jiraiya and Orochimaru who stood upon the two massive beasts, and suddenly said,
"You two… have you heard of the Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
"Mangekyō Sharingan?!" Jiraiya was puzzled—he had only heard of the Sharingan, never the Mangekyō.
But Orochimaru's pupils slowly narrowed. As the Uchiha clan's supreme kekkei genkai, how could someone greedy for such power not know?
The Mangekyō Sharingan was a realm above the three-tomoe Sharingan, incredibly powerful, worlds apart from the ordinary Sharingan.
A Uchiha who awakened the Mangekyō was akin to a dragon incarnate. Throughout history, they left indelible marks—for example, Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna.
Orochimaru's amber-gold pupils fixed on Kairen.
"What are you trying to do?!"
Kairen smiled. "To let you witness the pinnacle of the Uchiha Sharingan!"
"You—" Orochimaru wanted to speak, but the words stuck in his throat.
He had studied the Sharingan; the supreme Mangekyō was something that appeared once in a century. Tracing its origins, only Madara and Izuna had awakened it in the Warring States era.
Kairen, being a—
Orochimaru didn't want to continue.
All his sciences collapsed around Kairen. This man seemed like a loophole in the ninja world; no logic made sense when applied to him.
Watching secretly, Uchiha Madara snorted coldly, "To evolve directly from ordinary three-tomoe to Mangekyō—without intense emotional loss—how could you possibly open it?!"
As someone who mastered the Sharingan to its peak, Madara knew well: only when a Uchiha loses their dearest love does fate choose them and grant them divine power.
He found it strange enough that Kairen had the Sharingan at all. But to think he could awaken the Mangekyō at his age, temperament, and with just a bold claim—utter nonsense.
If the brat could open the Mangekyō, Madara would immediately use his Susanoo blade to slice him into a pear.
...
Under everyone's gaze, Kairen folded his arms and slowly closed his eyes, his expression calm as drifting clouds.
He instantly entered the system space.
"System, exchange 6,000 experience points for the Mangekyō Sharingan!"
"Exchange successful!"
Suddenly, a vast energy surged within Kairen's eyes. He could feel endless yin-type Chakra swelling within them, almost overflowing.
Senju Tobirama once said that when a Uchiha loses their love, a special type of Chakra is produced in the brain—the Chakra of ocular jutsu.
"Ding!"
"Host's Mangekyō Sharingan awakened successfully!"
"According to the host's spiritual image:
Left eye ability —Samayō no Me: at the cost of the host's life, it can revive someone who died within three days.
Right eye ability — Shiryū no Me: allows remote revival."
Samayō no Me—one life for one life. Isn't that very similar to Chiyo's One's Own Life Reincarnation… Kairen thought.
Then he thought about the right eye—Shiryū no Me—similar to Kagutsuchi controlling Amaterasu's shape.
But Samayō no Me had no offensive ability; instead it enabled remote revivals. Like the all-destroying flames of Amaterasu turning into the fire of life.
Before he thought further, he heard the whistle of a blade cleaving air.
It was Gamabunta, swinging his giant toad blade down at Kairen, ready to chop him in half and see whether he was "ripe" or not!
Suddenly, Kairen opened his eyes. His red eyes glowed demonically under the night sky—like a reaper opening his gaze.
Gamabunta froze instantly.
Uchiha Madara's eyes widened as he saw the two red gems embedded in Kairen's face.
"Mangekyō… it's really the Mangekyō!"
Madara saw clearly and even recognized the pattern—straight tomoe—similar to his brother's.
"Impossible! Unscientific! Makes no sense!"
Madara gasped for breath; his aged body strained from the sudden rush of blood.
He and his brother Izuna had suffered countless hardships and lost their most precious people before awakening the Mangekyō.
But Kairen? He simply closed his eyes for a moment—didn't lose a father or a mother—and when he opened them, suddenly awakened the Mangekyō.
This made Madara deeply uncomfortable, as though everything he cherished was as easy for Kairen as eating or drinking.
He chased a woman for half his life—this guy knocks once on the door, and she follows him home.
Beside him, Tobi pounded Madara's elderly back.
"If you get too worked up, your poop won't come out smooth."
"Get lost!"
...
Orochimaru stared at those demonic eyes, his heart filled with greed—followed by deep, profound fear.
To him, Kairen's talent was utterly unreasonable: he awakened Wood Release and also possessed the Uchiha Sharingan.
And his Wood Release was no weaker than the First Hokage's, while his Sharingan had now reached Mangekyō level.
Heaven seemed to favor him—granting him everything in existence.
Orochimaru gritted his teeth, jealousy twisting his face, his heart on the verge of explosion.
Why not me, Orochimaru?!
One day, he swore, he would dig up the Sage of Six Paths' grave and ask him personally.
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