"The two most important people in your life—killing one to save the other. It really is a foolish choice."
"Father, even though I knew the outcome long ago, watching you throw down the kunai in your hand still makes me..."
"So happy!"
From his god's-eye view, Uchiha Yue watched Uchiha Nara drop the kunai and give up on killing Uzumaki Minako. He smiled faintly and nodded in satisfaction.
But just as Uchiha Yue thought that Uchiha Nara had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan by giving up on personally killing Uzumaki Minako, the very act that was supposed to unlock it, his smile suddenly froze. He discovered that his father's Sharingan had entered a very peculiar state.
To save Uchiha Huangquan, Uchiha Nara had learned about awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan and the secret of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. He had planned to kill Uzumaki Minako, awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and use its overwhelming power to save his younger brother.
In the end, however, Uchiha Nara had chosen to give up. In Uchiha Yue's eyes, that act of renunciation alone should have been enough to spur his father to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Unexpectedly, the stimulus had only brought him to an awkward halfway point.
The moment Uchiha Nara tossed aside the kunai, Uchiha Yue sensed the aura of a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan spreading through his father's body. But just as the tomoe in Uchiha Nara's pupils seemed about to join together, Uchiha Yue's eyes narrowed slightly. His father's Mangekyō Sharingan had stopped in a state where it was on the verge of awakening, but had not actually awakened.
The black tomoe, which had been slowly connecting, gradually separated again.
The Mangekyō Sharingan's tomoe had failed to fully form. That meant Uchiha Nara had not awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. But the power