Hezi's Mangekyō

Uchiha Hezi had successfully awakened the Mangekyō, gaining extraordinary power that could turn the tables on her enemies!

[Left Eye: Mangekyō-no-Torifune-no-Mikoto]

Ability: For five minutes after activating the ocular technique, the user can move freely through space within their field of vision.

[Right Eye: Mangekyō-no-Torifune-no-Kamishuno]

Ability: The ocular technique can transport an object or space the user touches to a specified location within fifteen meters. The smaller its mass and volume, the less ocular power a single use consumes.

Uchiha Hezi had awakened the Mangekyō through pain and emotion, after Yakushi Nonō had willingly faced death.

As a result, her "eyes reflecting the heart" were filled with an "infinite desire" to save her companions.

Her left eye granted instantaneous movement through space and time.

Her right eye could transport physical objects through space after she touched them.

Three mysterious divine-bird patterns formed a petal-shaped, centrally symmetrical design, creating Uchiha Hezi's one-of-a-kind Mangekyō.

With the power of the Mangekyō, Uchiha Hezi had instantly risen from an utterly ordinary Chunin to a whole new level.

Relying on the power of her bloodline, she had successfully approached the threshold of Kage Level strength.

Hezi immediately used [Ame-no-Torifune-no-Kamishuno].

She teleported a metal senbon into Kaguya Eita's skull.

It was as if the thick bone armor covering his head simply wasn't there.

She teleported herself above Kaguya Eita's head, then kicked hard at the exposed end of the metal senbon.

Brain pierced!

The metal senbon tore through his brain.

Blood poured from Kaguya Eita's nose and mouth as he felt the agony of his brain being ripped apart.

In an instant, Kaguya Eita unleashed all his abilities.

He let the bones throughout his body grow wildly, no longer held in check.

He seemed to lose consciousness, his muscles and bones attacking indiscriminately as his entire body fell into chaos.

[Bone Release of the Seedling Fern]

Kaguya Eita could be called the most "brilliantly gifted" member of the Kaguya Clan in this era.

The instant his brain was attacked, he abandoned all thought and focused only on fighting to the death.

His wild bone blades gave him an astonishing attack range.

Countless bones erupted through the cavern. The devastating secret Bone Release technique spread across a vast area, nearly filling the underground space.

"Watch out!"

Hezi cried out and used spatial teleportation to reach Yakushi Nonō's side.

But [Bone Release of the Seedling Fern] was too fast.

The first bone spikes had already burst through the ground.

Not far away, 0015 had both thighs pierced by the bone spikes.

"I'm sorry."

Hezi's tears spilled over once more.

They washed away the streaks of blood left by her recent use of the Mangekyō.

Under the Mangekyō's power, Hezi and Nonō's figures rapidly faded from view.

But in Hezi's field of vision, a bamboo-shoot-shaped bone spike viciously pierced through 0015's abdomen.

In another second, several more bamboo-shoot-shaped spikes would turn 0015 into an unrecognizable corpse amid a forest of bone spikes.

Sizzle!

A figure wreathed in lightning flashed beside 0015 using the Body Flicker Technique.

"It's Lord Uchiha Fucheng!"

Just before Hezi faded away, Fucheng cleared away the bone spikes that had wounded 0015.

Fucheng spoke gently, his voice tinged with apology as he reassured them. "Sorry I'm a little late. Leave the rest to me."

Holding 0015 in one hand, Uchiha Fucheng glanced at the unusually spirited Misaka 0015 with his left eye. The ocular technique [Okuninushi] healed her wounds before their very eyes.

Even the half of her left arm she had just given to Yakushi Nonō grew back.

Having evaded the first wave of attacks, Uchiha Fucheng didn't bother with any fancy tricks.

He immediately donned his Mangekyō Susanoo. The skeletal giant charged straight at Kaguya Eita.

Clatter, clatter!

Before more bone spikes could grow, Fucheng used Earth Release to clear a large patch of ground.

Then, in the midst of the forest of bone and flesh, he seized Kaguya Eita—whose eyes had gone blank—with a lightning-wreathed Susanoo hand and yanked him out.

Kaguya Eita's eyes were vacant, his pupils unfocused, and foam dribbled from the corner of his mouth.

He still had a faint trace of consciousness, but his brain had clearly suffered severe damage.

"Hezi's attack was incredible!" Fucheng praised, his eyes lighting up.

The enormous Susanoo hand squeezed hard. Kaguya Eita's bone armor couldn't withstand the pressure, and it cracked with a series of sharp snaps.

As chunks of bone armor fell away, Kaguya Eita, hidden beneath it, began coughing up blood.

The pain even stimulated the damaged part of his brain, and Kaguya Eita started struggling, trying to shout something.

Uchiha Hezi escaped the forest of bone spikes and teleported back to Fucheng with Yakushi Nonō.

Hezi looked at Uchiha Fucheng with delight and pleaded urgently, "Lord Fucheng, please save Nonō."

Fucheng nodded. "Do you want me to cut off this half of her arm first, then let you grow a new one?"

Yakushi Nonō watched 0015 slowly recover and smiled with resolve.

She shook her head firmly. "No need, Lord Fucheng. This is the most precious memory Moon Sister gave me. I want to keep the arm."

Uchiha Fucheng patted Nonō's hair in approval and reassured her, "Some of the bone and flesh will have to grow back. It'll hurt a little, so bear with it."

As he spoke, Fucheng used [Okuninushi]'s healing ocular technique on Uchiha Hezi and Yakushi Nonō.

Ever since Nagato's mutated Uzumaki Sage Body began supporting him, using his Mangekyō ocular techniques had cost him far less.

Seeing the wounds on her own body healing rapidly too, Uchiha Hezi thanked Fucheng gratefully.

But when she looked at Kaguya Eita, hatred and anger still filled her eyes.

Fucheng pointed at Kaguya Eita.

"Anyone who can use the Bone Release secret technique, Dance of the Seedling Fern, must be an elite shinobi of the Kaguya Clan.

"His strength even surpasses that of an ordinary elite Jonin. This time, you were also misled by the intelligence that he was using the alias Taketori Eitaro."

Hezi looked at Kaguya Eita, who was already losing consciousness, and nodded, still shaken.

"Several times, I thought we were done for. If it weren't for Nonō, if it weren't for Moon Sister's fight to the death, I probably would've died at that madman's hands even after awakening the Mangekyō."

Fucheng spoke gently. "Don't let this become a source of trauma or regret. I deliberately didn't kill him. I saved him for you."

Hezi's eyes lit up, and she nodded firmly.

"Understood! I'll use these eyes to send him to the underworld."

[Mangekyō-no-Torifune-no-Kamishuno]

Driven by the Mangekyō's power, three steel senbon vanished from Uchiha Hezi's hand.

When they reappeared, they were protruding from Kaguya Eita's skull like steel spikes.

Hum!

A vibration made the senbon tips tremble.

White brain matter gushed from the holes around the senbon like foam spilling from a boiling pot.

With Kaguya Eita's death, a new prompt appeared in Uchiha Fucheng's mind.

[Change Kaguya Kimimaro's life trajectory]

[Reward: Kaguya Kimimaro's Fate Dice]

Uchiha Fucheng's eyes lit up.

Kaguya Kimimaro was also a descendant of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's collateral line, with a bloodline that had begun to revert to its ancient form.

His Bone Release bloodline was probably part of Kaguya's Sage Body. These Fate Dice were absolutely worth investing in heavily!