Early in the morning, soft sunlight spilled across the training ground.
The Ninja Academy students had already begun their morning training. Some ran laps, drenched in sweat; others practiced Taijutsu, completely focused.
As usual, Shinji arrived at the Ninja Academy on time.
This time, though, he didn't immediately go check on Shion's training. Instead, he searched the training ground for Karin.
Before long,
he spotted Karin in an inconspicuous corner.
Karin wasn't training. She had her head tilted back, watching the sun slowly rise overhead.
Anyone else might have thought she was just slacking off or daydreaming, but Shinji knew better. She was facing the sunlight to test her eyes' sensitivity to light.
In Shinji's view, the odds that Karin could restore those completely damaged Mangekyō Sharingan were about fifty-fifty.
He had looked into their condition in depth. Their Dojutsu had been completely depleted, and more than half of the cellular tissue had already died.
If they hadn't been Mangekyō Sharingan, they would probably have rotted away completely by now.
In these circumstances, even with Karin's unusually powerful healing constitution—rare even among the Uzumaki Clan—and even after she had received White Zetsu Cells, gaining the First Hokage's terrifying vitality, Shinji still couldn't tell whether they could make a miraculous recovery.
But hard work paid off.
Karin had truly worked a miracle!
Though the completely damaged Mangekyō Sharingan had only regained a trace of light sensitivity, it was undeniably a tremendous boost for both Shinji and Karin. It proved that the damaged Mangekyō Sharingan could recover—and that recovery was already underway!
Just then, a shout suddenly came from the school gate. "Sasuke, I challenge you!"
Everyone on the training ground looked toward the voice and saw that the idiot yelling at the school gate was Naruto Uzumaki, who hadn't been to