After the meeting ended, Shinji got up to leave.
Uchiha Hikari hurried after him and called out.
"What is it?" Shinji asked.
Hikari stared at him. "Shinji, I don't know why, but you seem to have changed all of a sudden!"
"Changed?"
Shinji was confused.
Hikari said, "I don't know how to explain it either. Anyway, 'Yachihoko' shouldn't be deceiving me!"
"Yachihoko..."
Shinji lowered his head and thought for a moment.
Yachihoko was a Dojutsu that could connect people. If anything about him had changed, Hikari could indeed have sensed it through Yachihoko.
Then he carefully went over what he had done recently.
His encounter with Urashiki was the first thing he suspected, since it involved the convergence of timelines. After that came his fusion of the Golden Eye, which contained Godly Emperor Musubi, using Susanoo Lamp. Finally, there was his journey through the Time River after rewinding time.
"Urashiki used the 'Kama' to rewind time and ambush me. I was the one forced to respond, so I should have been affected very little!"
Shinji shook his head, quietly ruling that out.
"The Golden Eye's Dojutsu is powerful, but my strength has long since changed beyond recognition. A pair of Golden Eyes shouldn't be able to overpower me."
Next, Shinji ruled out the second possibility.
Shinji had always been cautious about this sort of thing. For instance, he knew that Ada's Telescopic Eye Chakra was certainly very high-level, and might even surpass that of his own Six Tomoe Rinnegan, but he had never considered taking control of the Telescopic Eye.
The reason was his fear that the Telescopic Eye might take over, affecting his Dojutsu and consciousness.
After all, this Dojutsu came from Otsutsuki Shibai, who possessed "shinjutsu." Shinji suspected that Otsutsuki Shibai had long since become a Kekkei Sōra,