"Rumble~ rumble~ rumble~"
009 and 001, who had been blasted into the air and sent spinning through a 720-degree rotation by terrifying force, finally recovered from their violent dizziness.
After landing awkwardly, they stared at the dents in their chest armor with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.
"Who are you?!"
"Sorry, so it was a person. I thought I'd run into someone's roadside mutt."
Uchiha Gin, who had been crouching before Uchiha Madara to check on his older cousin, turned back. There was not the slightest hint of apology in his punchable tone, making the two grit their teeth in irritation.
"You bastard!"
"Big Brother, are you all right?"
Ignoring his own injuries, Uchiha Izuna stepped forward and helped up Uchiha Madara, who was in some sort of profound state.
"Hm, that feeling just now was..."
Uchiha Madara, whose evolution had been interrupted time and again, frowned. He had the lingering sense that he had missed something important.
Uchiha Gin, meanwhile, eyed his older cousin up and down. The aura around him was extremely unstable, and a look of realization gradually surfaced in his eyes.
It seemed he had come at the wrong time. His older cousin had apparently triggered some kind of emergency mechanism just now, causing the power of Ashura and the power of Indra within him to briefly merge.
If he had not interrupted him, perhaps his older cousin would have already begun awakening the power of the Six Paths, and his strength would have surged by several percentage points.
Still, he was family. Letting him hone himself a little more was for his own good. If this kid awakened the Rinnegan so early, Uchiha Gin feared he would not be able to handle it.
With that thought, the last trace of guilt in