Ten-Tails Consciousness

Every Dragonkin mastered a power, a strength hidden deep within their bloodline.

As expected, the vision he'd just experienced had been Spiritual Vision.

After Uesugi Yayoi fused with the bloodline, it was only natural that she awakened her own Word Spirit.

Word Spirit—Mirror Eye

A Mental Type Word Spirit, and an extremely unusual one.

It could read information about objects and even copy other Word Spirits.

Although copying other people's Word Spirits was practically useless in a world without Word Spirits, the ability to analyze things alone was more than enough.

After all, this was the Ninja World—the era of ninjas, chakra, and jutsu.

With the Mirror Eye, it was as if she had the Sharingan. She could quickly analyze and copy other people's ninjutsu, taijutsu, and techniques.

She also wouldn't have to worry about keeping up in her studies. Her innate analytical ability was enough to put her ahead of most people.

Uesugi Yayoi wouldn't have to worry about falling behind at the Ninja Academy.

Besides, the ability to copy Word Spirits might not be completely useless.

Everyone knew that Dragon Script was the language of the Dragon Clan, while Word Spirits were the Dragon Clan's commands.

As long as she learned the command—in other words, the Dragon Script—Uesugi Yayoi might be able to use the Mirror Eye to recreate the Word Spirit from her previous life: the Wind King Eye.

But first, she needed to figure out how the Mirror Eye worked.

She cautiously activated the Word Spirit, and the world seemed to grow clearer before her eyes.

She turned her head. Her family's villa was reflected in her pupils as she analyzed it, almost as if she could see the house's "weak points."

If she destroyed those pillars, her house would collapse.

Uesugi Yayoi couldn't help reaching out, about to give it a try, but then she suddenly came to her senses.

"Holy crap, that was close."

She clutched her chest with one hand, panting heavily.

She'd almost ended up sleeping on the street tonight.

And the Word Spirit consumed a truly enormous amount of energy.

She'd only had it activated for a minute, yet Uesugi Yayoi already felt completely drained.

The fiery clouds on the horizon gradually faded. The sun chased the horizon down and soon sank below it.

Darkness fell. Just then, lights suddenly flickered on throughout the village.

As lights shone in homes all around, Uesugi Yayoi followed suit and switched on the lights in her own house.

As she felt the evening breeze, she thought about the information contained in her Golden Finger.

Her Word Spirit, and the path to growing stronger described within it.

Blood Rage

Suppress the dominant personality and awaken the subconscious Dragon Persona, thereby activating one's Dragon Clan Gene and secreting a special hormone to purify the bloodline!

Thinking of the dangers on the battlefield, Uesugi Yayoi hesitated for a long while, but ultimately decided to enter Blood Rage.

Once Blood Rage was activated, her bloodline would be continuously purified, beyond her control.

Some in the Dragon Clan said that activating Blood Rage was like stepping onto a Death Slide. The more often you entered Blood Rage, the steeper the slope became—until you plunged into the abyss.

Uesugi Yayoi had bathed in the blood of an Unknown Dragon Clan. She didn't know whose blood it was, but its overwhelming pressure had far surpassed that of the Dragon whose blood had sent her here.

In the Dragon Raja novel she'd read, Dragon King Heart Blood was said to stabilize one's bloodline.

Uesugi Yayoi guessed that the blood of a powerful Dragon might have a similar effect, perhaps reducing the side effects of Blood Rage.

Besides, she was only attempting First Level Blood Rage. It wasn't very dangerous.

Even though she was still young, she had the soul of someone from the Ninja World. She couldn't be compared to an ordinary person, and her powerful physique was more than enough to support an initial attempt at Blood Rage.

After enjoying the summer breeze in the yard for a while, Uesugi Yayoi's body recovered. She looked around with wide-eyed curiosity, then carefully shut the door.

She didn't want anyone to know what she was about to do. The sight of someone covered in scales during Blood Rage was terrifying.

And as her trump card, it was better if as few people as possible knew about it.

Back inside, Uesugi Yayoi sat on the bed and steadied her breathing. The desk in front of her was cluttered with books, many of them open.

Some were about the Will of Fire, the Chakra Extraction Technique, and other such topics.

The Ninja World's technological development was oddly skewed. Her family hadn't thought to buy a television, and she didn't have a phone. The original owner could only pass the time by reading the books at home.

There were even a few notes the original owner had written in a book about the Will of Fire.

It seemed she'd been a child who believed in the Will of Fire.

Uesugi Yayoi didn't know much about the Will of Fire. In her past life and the one before it, she'd only ever heard one saying:

"Wherever leaves dance in the wind, fire burns on. The firelight will continue to illuminate the village and help new leaves sprout."

The older generation protected the younger one. The Way of Sacrifice.

It sounded pretty good, didn't it? That was, until Uesugi Yayoi heard about ten-year-old children being sent to the battlefield.

In the face of ironclad facts, explanations were just excuses.

It was truly disappointing. She'd wasted the tears she'd shed in her previous life.

The air fell completely still. In the silence, Uesugi Yayoi was like a reef beneath the sea.

Suddenly, the lights flickered.

"First Level Blood Rage!"

Your boiling Dragon Blood burned within you, searing every inch of your skin. Sulfur seemed to churn through Uesugi Yayoi's veins.

A sense of unprecedented fullness surged into her mind. She was like a boiling volcano, with millennia of molten rock buried within. It erupted without restraint, setting Uesugi Yayoi ablaze.

Every cell in her body rejoiced. The boiling Dragon Blood carried strength through her veins to every corner of her body.

Uesugi Yayoi held out her hand. Tiny black scales began to grow, and an inexplicable wave of savagery rose in her heart.

Like the fury of a Monarch, she wanted to tear everything before her to shreds.

But the savagery came and went just as quickly. It lasted only an instant before vanishing, like a breeze brushing across her face.

Uesugi Yayoi understood. It was the effect of the Dragon Blood.

In the state of Blood Rage, Uesugi Yayoi felt as if she could do anything. She knew it was an illusion, but the overwhelming satisfaction made her crave more.

She opened her eyes. A pair of dazzling, golden eyes lit up.

In the state of Blood Rage, she couldn't help but speak a Word Spirit.

An obscure, ancient language came from her lips.

The Mirror Eye activated. In an instant, a fierce wind seemed to gather before Uesugi Yayoi, bowing like a servant and awaiting her command.

Just as she was about to speak the next line of Dragon Script, the sky suddenly darkened.

Endless darkness swept across Uesugi Yayoi's world in an instant.

Her inner world was pitch-black. Then, a scarlet light burst forth, and a hole appeared in the sky. A vast vortex of dark clouds emerged, pouring thick black rain upon the earth.

In her daze, Uesugi Yayoi seemed to see a scarlet, eerie seed fall from the sky and take root in the earth. Thousands of years later, a towering Divine Tree that blotted out the sky and pierced the clouds would grow there.

Then the Divine Tree bloomed, transforming into a one-eyed monster with ten tails. It destroyed the world and plundered all its essence.

"This is the Ten-Tails!"

"Did activating Blood Rage awaken it too? Does this body have the Six Paths bloodline?!"

Uesugi Yayoi never could have imagined that Blood Rage alone—

had also activated the Ten-Tails bloodline inside her. After the Dragon consciousness was suppressed, the Ten-Tails consciousness had actually awakened.

That was it. The Dragon Blood from another world had fused with her original bloodline, but not completely. That was what had created this unique Dual negative consciousness.

A savage, hungry, bestial primitive emotion emanated intensely from within Uesugi Yayoi.

It was so powerful that she was on the verge of losing her mind. But at that moment, the Dragon Blood that had been calm until then suddenly began to boil.

A savage, arrogant Dragon roar erupted. A gigantic beast covered in black scales, savage and terrifying, appeared behind Uesugi Yayoi, spreading wings that blotted out the sky.

The two giant beasts roared and snarled, seemingly ready to charge at each other the next moment, tear each other apart, and devour one another.