After leaving Karin's apartment, Shinji first found a secluded spot and changed out of the Red Cloud Cloak and mask he was wearing. Then he pretended to jog around the village for exercise and seized an opportunity to slip into the Forest of Death without anyone noticing.
He arrived at the cave he often visited and carefully checked the inside. After confirming that no one else had been there, he eagerly took out the nutrient jar containing his grandmother Chiri Uchiha's Mangekyō.
He stared at the eyes floating in the nutrient fluid. "I've finally waited for this day!"
Over this period, he had gone to great lengths to obtain the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, even risking his life by breaking into Danzo's Root Base.
Today, all his efforts had finally paid off.
All those hardships and dangers from before seemed insignificant in this moment!
Swallowing, Shinji steadied himself, then took his grandmother Chiri Uchiha's Mangekyō out of the nutrient jar and held it in his palm.
Next, he activated Susanoo and Susanoo Lamp in turn, removed the pair of Mangekyō he had been wielding—Fugaku Uchiha's—and replaced them with his grandmother Chiri Uchiha's.
In an instant, a sense of closeness welled up inside him.
This was the bond of blood!
When fusing with a close relative's Mangekyō, there was no need to determine which was stronger, nor to worry about their Dojutsu rejecting each other!
After steadying himself, Shinji began channeling his Dojutsu, trying to activate the left eye that Karin had restored to sight.
As a large amount of Mangekyō Dojutsu poured into the left eye that had once been blind, it finally began to turn scarlet, spurred on by his right eye. Three Tomoe quickly appeared, then converged into a pattern of three petal-like shapes.
"It worked!"
As Shinji's spirits