Splash!
As the lake's surface gradually calmed, the sound of rushing water suddenly rose. A water mirror abruptly surged up from the lake, standing sharply before the young man who had been looking down at his reflection. Slowly, it revealed his clear figure.
Impossible! This can't be possible!
Could this... could this be Taki Chiba's final move? And I... just now, I burned my...
No! Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
I saw it clearly. He couldn't have switched them. Under the Rinnegan's insight, he couldn't possibly have switched them! There was only one wooden tube in his hand! It could only have been inside that wooden tube! The very wooden tube I took back!
Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Taki Chiba could never have done that!
He couldn't. At that moment, the ease on the young man's face in the water mirror had completely turned into anxiety, horror, disbelief, and fear.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Uchiha Nobuhiko suddenly realized something—something he had failed to notice before.
His left eye had been switched.
The left eye he had taken from Taki Chiba was not his left eye. It was not his Rinnegan left eye.
And if that was truly the case...
Then in that final attack just now, he might have burned his own Rinnegan left eye.
He had burned his own eye.
Now that he had finally relaxed, he suddenly discovered that the ocular power in his left eye had vanished.
No, it should not be called vanished.
It was simply gone.
At first, he had thought that his Chakra reserves were insufficient, and that Printless Regeneration had not yet fully repaired all the severed visual nerves. That was why his ocular power could not flow smoothly, and why he could not sense the ocular power in his left eye.
But now,