At a certain moment just now, the 'Naobi' he had kept linked to Karin suddenly gave him a feeling unlike any he had ever experienced before.
"Was that the Power of All Things erupting?"
After considering the possibility, Shinji was both startled and delighted.
He had been waiting for this day for years, all told.
Suppressing his excitement, he immediately used 'Naobi' to contact Karin and asked, "What just happened?"
Karin seemed to be in a daze.
Only when Shinji's voice reached her ears did she seem to find her bearings. She asked urgently, "My lord, I... my Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan just started stirring!"
"Stirring!?"
Shinji began to think.
When an eye stirred, it often signaled rebirth, since such movements were a normal part of developing new power.
When Shinji had transplanted the pair of fully damaged Mangekyō Sharingan into Karin and had her try to restore them, they had stirred like this before.
And the Mangekyō Sharingan that had stirred hadn't disappointed him. Afterward, they had been reborn and their Dojutsu had been completely restored!
Once he understood this, Shinji immediately asked, "What about now?"
Karin replied, "It seems to have stopped."
"Stopped!?" Shinji paused, then asked urgently, "Besides the stirring, did anything else happen just now?"
Karin thought carefully for a moment, then shook her head. "No."
"Only the stirring..."
Shinji furrowed his brow slightly.
The Dojutsu of Karin's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan had nearly reached the Sharingan's limits. Even Shinji's own Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan fell slightly short by comparison.
So this stirring in Karin's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was not something to take lightly.
But Shinji didn't know the details of how the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan evolved into the Rinnegan. He only knew that after Madara Uchiha had met all the requirements for awakening the Rinnegan, he had remained