He made it!
He made it—he'd finally made it!
The restraint had vanished!
As he turned his head back, Hirohiko's smile slowly faded into a poker face. Then, a trace of delight gradually appeared on that expressionless face.
It hurt so much!
Then, in the next second, as the scattered black sparks slowly broke apart, the delight on his poker face was immediately twisted by pain.
It felt as though every cell in his body was wailing in agony. Was this the side effect of this Susanoo?
Amid the pain, Hirohiko's expression took on a hint of gravity. Watching Uchiha Nobuhiko ahead of him, whose face remained expressionless yet somehow seemed altered, he clenched his teeth so hard that even his poker face nearly crumpled and twisted.
I don't know...
How much longer can I hold on? This pain is too intense! It's almost affecting the output of my eye power! As his expression grew graver, Hirohiko inwardly cried out in alarm. Just moments ago, upon hearing Yukina's words and driven by that surge of grief and fury, he had finally taken this step with his suddenly skyrocketing eye power. He had stepped in front of his dearest friend and blocked the fatal attack aimed at him.
But with that step, the effects of that unknown treatment seemed to have finally ended. What was bound to come had come.
First came the swelling pain in his eyes, followed by excruciating agony throughout every cell in his body, nearly making his vision go black and causing him to faint.
Still, he had managed to endure it.
And almost instinctively, he understood that this pain on a cellular level came from the Susanoo.
But now, if he wanted to protect his Teacher and his dearest friend against Uchiha Nobuhiko's attacks, he had