Uchiha Hikari's Rinnegan

The air inside the isolation room seemed to have frozen.

Uchiha Hikari's body arched violently as it trembled, the wooden patterns surfacing on her skin spreading like living things.

Her hands dug hard into the edges of the experiment bed. The alloy frame groaned under the terrifying force of her fingers, leaving five deep gouges behind.

"Heart rate has exceeded the critical threshold! Two hundred and thirty beats per minute!"

"Blood pressure is still soaring! Systolic pressure has broken three hundred!"

"Chakra is running wild!"

Piercing alarms rang through the entire laboratory, and every data curve on the screens flashed red.

Several researchers in white coats had gone deathly pale, frantically operating the instruments as they tried to stabilize the situation.

"Prepare the inhibitor!" Hiruko's voice carried a rare urgency as he rushed to the control console, fingers flying across the keyboard. "Inject No. 3 neutralizer immediately. Adjust the dose to maximum!"

"No good!" a researcher shouted in terror. "Her chakra has formed a defensive barrier! The needle can't pierce her skin at all!"

A faint red glow of chakra covered Uchiha Hikari's entire body like armor.

The light was not dazzling, but it carried a heart-stopping pressure. Any object that came close was repelled three millimeters from her skin.

Hiruko's face turned livid. He personally grabbed a special high-pressure syringe, its needle made from a special alloy capable of piercing most defenses.

But just as he was about to step forward—

"Wait."

A pale hand pressed down on his shoulder.

At some point, Orochimaru had arrived beside Hiruko. His golden vertical pupils were fixed on Uchiha Hikari on the experiment bed. There was no panic on his face at all—only excitement!

"Orochimaru, are you insane?!" Hiruko growled. "If we let this continue, she'll be completely devoured by the Hashirama