No Ignorance of Consciousness Only

"But what surprised me most was your eyes."

Like a king cobra watching its prey, Orochimaru stared at Uchiha Mai's amethyst-like eyes and rasped, "Mai, those aren't ordinary Sharingan, are they?

Half a month ago, your eyes were merely ordinary Two Tomoe. Yet half a month later, they've undergone such an enormous change.

Lord Tobirama, the Second Hokage, once studied this. The Uchiha Clan's awakening and evolution of the Sharingan have nothing to do with talent in the conventional sense, only with emotions.

Those Uchiha who were more sensitive and experienced greater emotional fluctuations found it easier to awaken their eyes or evolve their Sharingan.

You aren't the kind of mediocrity who acts on impulse and lets his emotions control him.

Even so, you have surpassed every Uchiha alive today. Mai, you are a flawless genius in every respect."

Among the Uchiha, there was no shortage of twelve- or thirteen-year-olds who had evolved their eyes to Three Tomoe. Uchiha Tekka was one example, as was Itachi's little girlfriend in the original story.

Uchiha Mai had reached Two Tomoe at eleven, which could not exactly be called pathetic.

But compared to an eleven-year-old Mangekyō Sharingan, any Three Tomoe could be swept straight into the garbage heap.

At that moment, Orochimaru was certain that Uchiha Mai's eyes were the legendary Mangekyō Sharingan. Even if they were not Mangekyō Sharingan, they had to be some bizarre mutated variety.

Mangekyō Sharingan was a rather mysterious and sensitive subject. Not many in the Ninja World knew of it, but Orochimaru was one of them.

Yet even Orochimaru only knew that the Mangekyō Sharingan looked different from ordinary Sharingan and possessed power far beyond them.

Uchiha Mai's Three Tomoe had fucking changed from red to amethyst-purple. Wasn't that vastly different?

Most people who knew of the