Drip
Drip
The rhythmic sound of water droplets echoed softly through the cavern.
Like Shinji's state of mind, his breathing gradually steadied, and the restlessness within him slowly gave way to calm.
"It's time!"
He murmured to himself, then opened his eyes.
The scarlet Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in his eyes blazed with an eerie light, and the Susanoo surrounding him let out a low roar!
Roar!
With that roar, the fusion began.
In an instant, tremendous resistance surged back from the Susanoo Lamp and reached Shinji's mind.
He furrowed his brow, his expression grave.
Before beginning the fusion, he had already expected it to be difficult—perhaps harder than any attempt he had made before.
But the resistance was so great right from the start that it still caught him by surprise.
But he had come this far, and backing down was out of the question. Without hesitation, he drove his Dojutsu forward, forcing the Susanoo Lamp to fuse, while activating Magatsu to draw Chakra from Karin, Haku, Neji, and Yakumo.
He began drawing Chakra so early mainly because it took time to convert the Chakra gathered by Magatsu into Dojutsu.
If he waited until his own Chakra was depleted before using Magatsu to draw Chakra from the others, there might not be enough time to convert it into Dojutsu.
Konoha.
Karin silently endured Magatsu's extraction, acting as if nothing were wrong.
If not for the Chakra continuously draining from her body, there would have been no sign from the outside that anything was amiss.
Haku, also in his apartment, tensed.
Although the leader rarely drew Chakra from him, he showed no sign of distress. On the contrary, he knew that if the leader needed even his Chakra, then he must have run into something difficult. So Haku worked harder to