A Bold Idea

As it turned out, the Mangekyō Sharingan's ability to control Tailed Beasts wasn't a rumor. It was the absolute truth.

After transplanting Hashirama Senju Cells, Uchiha Obito's ocular power had become so formidable that he could even control Karatachi Yagura, a Perfect Jinchuriki.

Even the strongest, the Nine-Tails, hadn't been spared.

Uchiha Akira hadn't transplanted Hashirama Senju Cells, so his ocular power wasn't nearly as formidable as Uchiha Obito's, whose had nearly reached the level of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

But the Six-Tails wasn't the Nine-Tails.

Now that Haori, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, was dead, Six-Tails Saiken was effectively in a wild state. Naturally, Uchiha Akira had controlled it with a single glance.

After using Sharingan Genjutsu to control Six-Tails Saiken, Uchiha Akira furrowed his brow and murmured, "Controlling a Tailed Beast uses up far too much ocular power... And this is only the Six-Tails. If it were the Nine-Tails, wouldn't it break free almost immediately?"

The Nine-Tails was in a league of its own compared to the other eight Tailed Beasts. An ordinary Mangekyo Sharingan might be able to control the other Tailed Beasts, but that didn't mean it could control the Nine-Tails.

By Uchiha Akira's estimate, with the ocular power of just one Mangekyo Sharingan, he could control Six-Tails Saiken for at most three minutes.

After three minutes, his ocular power would be depleted, and Six-Tails Saiken would inevitably break free of the genjutsu and go completely berserk.

"What should I do?"

Uchiha Akira looked at Six-Tails Saiken, standing in the crater, and found himself at a loss.

Three minutes clearly wasn't enough time to take it back to Konoha. If Minato Namikaze were here, he could at least try to take it back, then have Uzumaki Kushina seal it.

The situation left him awkwardly stuck between a rock and a hard place.

"Kill it?" Uchiha Akira stroked his chin, considering whether the idea was feasible.

"That won't work either. Three minutes isn't enough time to create an Accumulated Rain Thundercloud, and that Lightning Style technique might not be enough to kill the Six-Tails..." Uchiha Akira wore a conflicted expression.

Of course, he could still kill the Six-Tails. He could do it with the Mangekyo Sharingan's left-eye technique, Kamui.

But that would cause some damage to his Mangekyo Sharingan, which was why Uchiha Akira was taking the matter so seriously.

"Should I kill Saiken or let it go and leave it in the wild..."

Just as he was wrestling with the decision, a green blur shot out from behind him.

It was Might Duy.

With the Sixth Gate, Gate of View, open through the Formation of the Eight Inner Gates, he was moving at incredible speed and was the first to arrive.

"Kid, you're amazing!" Might Duy gave him a thumbs-up, his face beaming. "I never imagined even a Tailed Beast would be no match for you. The Sharingan really is a terrifying Kekkei Genkai!"

Uchiha Akira shook his head and said gravely, "Senior Duy, I can't control it for long—three minutes at most. Hurry and evacuate the wounded. The farther away, the better!"

"What?" Might Duy's expression changed. He looked at Uchiha Akira with utmost seriousness. "Uchiha, I understand. I'll head back and evacuate the wounded right away."

Without time to say anything more, Might Duy shot off in a flash of green light, turned around, and raced toward Kakashi and the others.

"Jonin Huo Men, Jonin Kakashi, Jonin Liu, we have to go back and evacuate the wounded!" His voice rang out before he even arrived. "The Uchiha kid can only control the Six-Tails for three minutes. We have to move the wounded far enough away within that time!"

"What?"

At Might Duy's words, Kakashi and the others, who had been rushing over, immediately stopped.

Then, without a moment's hesitation, they sprinted straight toward the area where Konoha's wounded were.

Three minutes was a very short time. They had to race against the clock to evacuate the wounded.

Tailed Beasts stood dozens of meters tall. They were truly enormous.

Even moving slowly, these colossal natural disasters were still faster than people carrying wounded.

If the Tailed Beast went berserk and fired Tailed Beast Bombs indiscriminately, they would be in serious trouble.

So they couldn't waste a single second of those three minutes. They had to get the wounded far enough away.

At the very least, they needed to get beyond the Six-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb range.

Might Duy and Kakashi's group could leave, but Uchiha Akira couldn't.

If he left, Six-Tails Saiken could break free of the Sharingan Genjutsu and go on a rampage.

"Damn it..." Saiken's struggles were growing more and more violent, and Uchiha Akira couldn't help muttering a curse.

"What a shame I never had time to learn Sealing Jutsu..." Uchiha Akira sighed.

For members of the Uchiha Clan, with their Sharingan, Sealing Jutsu wasn't all that difficult.

They only needed to use the Sharingan to copy some Sealing Jutsu, study them carefully, and then gradually master more advanced Sealing Jutsu.

But the Uchiha Clan had never placed much importance on Sealing Jutsu. The only thing at the heart of the clan was the Sharingan; Fire Style was just an added bonus.

Uchiha Akira had been in this world for over a year. Although he had wanted to learn, the battlefield had never given him time to study Sealing Jutsu at his own pace.

If Uchiha Akira had been sufficiently skilled in Sealing Jutsu, he could have sealed Six-Tails Saiken inside his own body and become a Jinchuriki.

With the Mangekyo Sharingan at his disposal, Uchiha Akira had no fear of Six-Tails Saiken resisting. One glance would make it behave.

The benefits of becoming a Jinchuriki went without saying. At the very least, he wouldn't have to worry about running out of chakra.

His chakra reserves were already enormous, but they still paled in comparison to a Tailed Beast's.

"I can't come away empty-handed. I've already got it under control. It'd be such a waste to just let it go." Uchiha Akira thought it over, then moved behind Six-Tails Saiken.

Next, blinding lightning crackled in his hand. A streak of blue lightning shot out, turned into a sword, and swept across one of the Six-Tails' tails.

With a wet squelch, he sliced off a several-meter-long section of the Six-Tails' tail.

Then Uchiha Akira took out a Sealing Scroll and placed the severed piece of tail inside the storage scroll.

These scrolls had limited capacity, could store living things (as shown in the original work), and were expensive.

The scroll Uchiha Akira carried was the largest-capacity storage scroll on the market.

A tail about four meters long was its limit.

It wasn't that Uchiha Akira didn't want to take more of the Tailed Beast's flesh. He simply didn't have any more storage scrolls; he had only brought one.

"What a shame. A Tailed Beast this huge would've been wonderful to take back." Uchiha Akira sighed.

"Wait!" Uchiha Akira was just about to leave when he suddenly stopped. Something had occurred to him.

Looking at the snow-white Saiken, Uchiha Akira thought, Since Uchiha Madara could forcibly contract the Nine-Tails and make it his Summoning Beast, couldn't I do the same?

Force Six-Tails Saiken to become his Summoning Beast!

That was the idea that had just popped into Uchiha Akira's head.

That way, he wouldn't have to worry about what to do with Six-Tails Saiken after killing it.