"What did you do to me?" Akaseki looked warily at Hikari.
"Engraving. An ability that absorbs the target's chakra. It was the Mangekyō Sharingan ability awakened by an Uchiha named Shiro six hundred years ago," Hikari said calmly.
Akaseki: !!!
Was that what I was asking?
"Why are you absorbing my chakra?" Akaseki asked, suppressing his anger.
Hikari fell silent for a moment.
She neither acted as though she were in the right nor showed any inclination to attack, leaving Akaseki uncertain.
Just then, Akaseki remembered how Hikari had suddenly stumbled while walking on water earlier... His expression shifted.
"You... can't replenish your chakra on your own anymore, can you?" Akaseki asked tentatively.
Hikari's face darkened.
At her reaction, Akaseki immediately perked up, even standing noticeably straighter.
"You're not the only person I can put Engraving on," Hikari reminded him, her face still dark.
"Then hurry up and move it off me! I'll take you to the Land of Lightning to find a Jinchuriki. They've got plenty to spare!" Akaseki said deliberately.
Akaseki remembered that before he had fallen under her genjutsu, Hikari had complained about his chakra...
Thus, Akaseki was eighty-or even seventy-percent certain that this thing couldn't simply be transferred at will!
If she could transfer it, that would be fine too...
Akaseki didn't want to shoulder Hikari's chakra consumption-even when she was doing nothing, it was still equivalent to several transplanted Sharingan... What if she actually started "moving"?
Hikari's chakra output was clearly higher than Akaseki's. If his chakra had to fill her reserves...
Wasn't that like hitching a pony to a heavy wagon?
After Akaseki spoke, however, he noticed Hikari fall silent for a moment.
That more or less confirmed it for him: the target of this "Engraving" couldn't be changed easily...
The bad news was