Until the sun tilted to the other side, nearing dusk, Hakushi took some time to come over and check on Ruri's training progress.
At this moment, Ruri opened her red eyes, in the Sharingan state.
Seeing Ruri's exposed red Sharingan, Hakushi slightly opened his mouth, his expression suddenly becoming blank.
"What's wrong? Why do you have that stupid look on your face?"
Ruri frowned, not understanding what Hakushi's expression meant.
"Ah, no, it's your Sharingan, Ruri..."
Hakushi pointed at Ruri's Sharingan with a peculiar expression.
"Sharingan?"
Ruri touched her eyes; what happened to the Sharingan?
Although her pupil strength had enhanced a bit, it shouldn't casually elevate to Mangekyo Sharingan.
Moreover, she hadn't sensed her exclusive pupil technique.
So what was Hakushi surprised about?
Ruri walked to the pond, looked at her reflection in the water, and also saw the condition of her Sharingan.
Like Hakushi, she was taken aback, frozen on the spot.
Her Sharingan, originally the Three-Tomoe, was now missing one Tomoe. It was regressed from Three-Tomoe Sharingan to Two-Tomoe Sharingan?
What's happening?
How could the Sharingan possibly regress on its own?
Ruri's mind also froze, entirely clueless about what was happening.
In the recorded history of the Uchiha Race, such regression exceptions had never appeared.
"How did my Sharingan regress? No, if it regressed, my pupil strength should decrease, but I can feel that the Sharingan's pupil strength has not decreased; instead, it's stronger. What on earth is this..."
Ruri continued to speculate, ultimately unable to understand why her Sharingan exhibited the strange occurrence of reduced Tomoe count.
"It might be the result of training."
Hakushi stood beside Ruri, seeing this situation for the first time, uncertainly speaking.
"Training? You mean..."
"Didn't you say it yourself? Three Tomoe became Two Tomoe, and the pupil strength did not weaken; instead, it strengthened a bit... If you return to the Three Tomoe form, the pupil strength might ascend another level."
Hearing Hakushi's explanation, Ruri felt that it made sense.
Indeed, since the pupil strength hasn't regressed, training the Two Tomoe back to Three Tomoe will undoubtedly enhance the pupil strength.
Then another week passed.
Ruri looked at herself in the mirror, with an eerie expression.
"..."
Her pair of red Sharingan eyes, not only failed to revert from Two-Tomoe Sharingan back to the Three-Tomoe form, but instead regressed again, becoming a One Tomoe form.
Strangely, her pupil strength had not weakened due to the regression of the Tomoe in the Sharingan, but instead became stronger than before.
"Next, could the Sharingan shut off entirely?"
Hakushi also stared blankly at Ruri's pair of Sharingan in the mirror, lost for words.
"Testing it will show, since my pupil strength hasn't weakened. It should be fine."
Ruri felt a bit frustrated but did not give up on training. Instead, she put even more effort into understanding what was happening to herself.
This time, until mid-July, Ruri's Sharingan underwent a new change.
The Sharingan was gone.
No matter how Ruri tried to activate the Sharingan, her eyes remained in normal form and couldn't transform into the Sharingan.
Such a situation left Ruri a bit at a loss.
Yet, the more peculiar thing was, the disappearance of the Sharingan did not cause the pupil strength to dissipate; she could still sense it was brewing within her eyes.
This feeling made Ruri feel an indescribable oddity.
To verify her thoughts, Ruri called on a Jonin from the clan for a test.
"Activate the Sharingan and use an Illusion Technique on me."
Ruri asked the Jonin clan member to use an Illusion Technique against her.
The clan Jonin, though feeling strange, followed Ruri's orders.
He activated the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, staring at Ruri who showed only ordinary-looking eyes, performing a powerful illusion hypnosis.
At first, it was smooth, but quickly the Jonin Uchiha sensed something amiss. He felt as if his body was restrained by something powerful, unable to move.
"Wh-What..."
Before he could finish his sentence, countless chains wrapped from all directions, swiftly enclosing him like a cocoon, tightening more and more, making his skin flush red and his face twist in agony.
Then, the chains disappeared, and he knelt on one knee, relieved, sweat dripping on the ground, gasping greedily.
He raised his head, gazing at Ruri with reverence.
Even without activating the Sharingan, she had directly rebounded his strongest illusion. Such a technique could only be described as miraculous.
Ruri, however, remained indifferent to the clan Jonin's inner shock, her expression grew more peculiar.
In the past, only when her Sharingan was activated did she possess the ability to repel illusion techniques. Using normal eyes against the Sharingan, even for her, would involve being captured by an illusion without fail, unable to bounce it back.
Yet now she hadn't activated the Sharingan... No, perhaps it was already activated, just not in the form of Tomoe, appearing like normal eyes, but its essence had drastically changed.
Moreover, the power to reflect illusions seemed stronger than the previous Three-Tomoe form.