Drawn by an aura from the same source, black tomoe involuntarily emerged in Shisui's eyes as well. Stimulated by Guo Wang's Dojutsu Power, they revealed a Mangekyō pattern even he himself had never known existed.
"Just as I thought!"
Seeing the black pattern like a Four-Point Pinwheel appear in the eyes of the boy, who only reached his waist, Guo Wang could not help marveling at how each generation produced new talent.
If Konoha's records were correct, only one person had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan since the village's founding: Uchiha Madara.
Although Kagami Uchiha had awakened it as well, that record existed only in the memories of several of Senju Tobirama's disciples.
And this ten-year-old child before him was the third person in the history of Konoha's Uchiha Clan.
"Kagami, is the missing portion of Dojutsu Power from your left eye within this child?"
Although Guo Wang had transplanted a complete pair of Mangekyō, he discovered that the left eye taken from beneath the gravestone retained only a tiny trace of Dojutsu Power.
Combined with Danzo's memories, the answer was easy to reach.
Before his death, Kagami Uchiha had given the Dojutsu Power of his left eye to his son, using it to protect his family. After Shisui's father died, that power had passed to Shisui through a special method.
To an ordinary person, this Dojutsu Power was merely a secret technique for preserving one's life.
But to a genius like Shisui Uchiha, the tremendous shock of losing a close relative, combined with this transferred Dojutsu Power, allowed this talent comparable to Uchiha Madara to awaken the Sharingan's highest realm.
"This is... the Mangekyō? How is that possible?!"
Though he had yet to come of age, Shisui, the greatest genius in Uchiha history, had read nearly all the clan's secret teachings. The Mangekyō Sharingan emphasized at the end of every scroll was as familiar to him as thunder in his ears. Yet he had never imagined that he would see this myth, existing only in legend, in an outsider's eyes.
"There is no need to be surprised. Didn't you accomplish it too?"
After Guo Wang said that, he formed a hand seal with his right hand. A Water Mirror Technique formed from Water Release allowed Shisui to see the pattern in his own eyes.
"What is going on?"
"Want to know the answer? Then come with me."
This was uncut jade that could be polished, no less promising than Uchiha Itachi, whom he regarded as the future.
His father's death had placed Shisui at the most crucial turning point of his life. The allure of the Mangekyō also stirred all the curiosity he had held since childhood toward the Sharingan and his grandfather.
Forest.
Just as they were about to leave the area covered by Konoha's Barrier, Guo Wang stopped.
At the same moment, Shisui appeared before him.
"Not bad Body Flicker Technique. If I gave you that technique, you would be no inferior to Minato."
The Flying Thunder God was a Space-Time technique, but to practice this forbidden technique, one had to possess speed beyond the limits of the body. Danzo had previously seen only two people with such speed: his teacher Senju Tobirama and Namikaze Minato.
Now, there was one more.
"Lord Danzo overpraises me. Senior Minato is Konoha's hero, while I am merely a Genin."
"It seems your father always treated you like a child."
After Guo Wang said that, his right eye suddenly became a Three Tomoe Sharingan. Then an invisible will entered Shisui's eyes through Genjutsu.
"This is..."
Though young, Shisui had mastered every Genjutsu of the Uchiha Clan and was highly proficient in them. The instant he made contact, he knew this was a technique for transmitting memories and caused no harm.
It seemed to take a long time, but it was actually only a few breaths. Kagami Uchiha's brief yet brilliant life had already been extracted by Guo Wang from Danzo's memories and transmitted into Shisui's eyes.
"Your grandfather, Kagami Uchiha, was this kind of man."
Although Shisui was immensely gifted and had awakened the Mangekyō, he was only ten years old after all.
After receiving the life of his grandfather from Danzo's eyes, the teachings he had heard from his father since childhood and the Will of Fire passed down by Konoha's Shinobi fused perfectly in that moment, engraving themselves into his eyes.
The Mangekyō awakened through grief began to stabilize.
"So that is how it is. I understand."
Seeing the resolve on Shisui's face, Guo Wang nodded gently as the Mirror Flower, Water Moon in his eyes slowly faded.
"Our village is called Konoha, and its leader is called the Hokage."
"The First gave it this name in the hope that there would be no barriers between clans in the village, and that they would work together for the village. He wanted every member of every clan not to limit their sacrifices to their clan's interests alone, but to prioritize the greater good and contribute to the village. Protect your fellow villagers. Everyone in the village is family, and there should be no hierarchy between people because of exceptional clans or ordinary clans."
"But regrettably, even after the First and my teacher took the lead in disbanding the Senju Clan and made enormous sacrifices, clans, organizations that prevented every person in the village from being equal, still remained. Kagami and I inherited our teacher's will. We swore that even if only our last drop of blood remained, we would fight to the end for true equality in the village."
This was the true will of Danzo's original self, and also his greatest disagreement with Sarutobi Hiruzen.
And Kagami Uchiha, though a member of the clan, agreed more with Danzo's ideals. That was also why he had left behind his Mangekyō.
"Your grandfather's life was full of pain, for the clan and even more for the village. Yet his capacity surpassed all of ours. That was precisely why he entrusted his eyes to me, hoping that through them, he could see the day when every person in this world was truly equal and at peace."
"I am already old. We boring old men created this Shinobi world, yet failed to define peace and love for it."
"Shisui, you are the future!"
As he said this, the black Mangekyō shaped like a Four-Point Pinwheel spun faster and faster. A strand of deep green Chakra began to emerge over the boy's body, gradually forming a translucent skeletal framework like a massive fist that held his young body within its grip.
At the same time, the Mangekyō pattern in Guo Wang's right eye flashed and vanished, imprinting Shisui's Dojutsu into his own eye.
Kagami Uchiha's Mangekyō had "Mirror Flower, Water Moon" as the Dojutsu of its left eye, while the Dojutsu of its right eye was called "Goji Chongshi."
The ability of "Mirror Flower, Water Moon" was the most defiant of heaven, but due to the missing Dojutsu Power, even Guo Wang did not dare confirm whether he could activate it.
"Goji Chongshi" was the ultimate form of the Sharingan's copying ability. It could copy anything, even Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques.
Of course, Guo Wang did not know whether Dust Release, which surpassed Kekkei Genkai, could be copied, since he had never tried.
When he originally possessed only the right eye, "Goji Chongshi" could copy and store only one technique.
With a pair of Mangekyō, even with the left eye's Dojutsu Power missing, the number of techniques increased to three.
Guo Wang's right eye now held backups of two techniques. One was Shinra Sei, while the other was the Dojutsu Shisui had just awakened before him... Susanoo-no-Mikoto!
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