Learning Sage Mode? Regret

Although it was possible, transplanting so many Sharingan would make him far too easy to expose. He could hardly imitate Danzo and keep one arm wrapped in bandages at all times, could he?

Moreover, Danzo only dared confine the Hashirama Cells to a single arm; he never dared let them spread throughout his entire body.

And Minamoto Takuya's ambition was precisely to pursue a more perfect, full-body fusion! That required a more solid foundation.

Of course, he was also aware of another possibility.

If he fused with the Hashirama Cells now, the immense pressure between life and death, coupled with intense mental stimulation, might trigger the Sharingan's ultimate transformation and forcibly awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan!

It was like a desperate gamble, with his own life as the stake.

What were the odds of winning? Minamoto Takuya assessed them calmly, and the conclusion he reached was cruel.

The odds of death were far higher than the odds of successfully awakening his eyes!

He was not Sasuke Uchiha. He did not have a protagonist's halo, blessed by fate, protecting him.

This life-or-death gamble did not align with his long-held creed of "stability and control."

As for Kimimaro Kaguya's Shikotsumyaku... over the past three years, he had indeed worked out a way to safely fuse a fourth bloodline.

But! A massive shadow still hung over it all: Blood Disease!

The fatal hereditary curse afflicting Kimimaro Kaguya.

Although the juvenile specimens in his experiments had yet to show any symptoms, what about after fusion? Who could guarantee that this curse would not erupt within his own body?

Minamoto Takuya did not want to take that risk.

The path he had long planned was crystal clear: the prerequisite for fusing the Kaguya bloodline was successfully transplanting and perfectly controlling the Hashirama Cells.

He had absolute