At night.
Shinji, wearing a Red Cloud Cloak and a mask, once again slipped into Karin's room.
Facing Shinji, who was posing as the leader of the Akatsuki Organization, Karin still seemed somewhat ill at ease. "Sir!"
Shinji nodded and first examined the transplant site on Karin's arm.
It was still wrinkled, just like before.
Then Shinji focused on Karin's eyes. "How's your right eye?"
Karin handed Shinji the small notebook she'd been keeping and said, "These past few days, my eye has occasionally felt swollen. Sometimes it throbs inside the socket, like..."
"Like a heartbeat?"
Karin nodded repeatedly. "Yes, exactly!"
"The eye bud is growing!" Shinji explained, then asked, "Can you see anything yet?"
"I can only vaguely make out some light and shadows," Karin replied.
Shinji's face beneath the mask brightened with delight.
He then flipped through Karin's notes.
Taking Karin's daily records together with what she'd just described, Shinji grew increasingly certain that her blind right eye was recovering. What's more, the recovery was gradually speeding up as Karin's cells fused.
He couldn't predict exactly how long it would take, but it wouldn't be long.
Shinji looked at her other eye. "What about your left eye?"
"Sometimes my left eye throbs along with my right." Karin suddenly remembered something and hurriedly added, "But my vision keeps getting better. I can see things clearly from dozens of meters away."
Perhaps because she'd been malnourished as a child, Karin's eyesight had always been poor, and she'd worn glasses for a long time.
So after receiving the Mangekyō Sharingan transplant, she was highly sensitive to the improvement in her vision. The world seemed completely different through her eyes.
Even the Dojutsu in her left eye is growing stronger?
Shinji understood.
The amount of Dojutsu contained in the Mangekyō directly affected