Buying Colored Contact Lenses, Super Kage Ceiling

Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan!

Seeing those words, Ryusuke felt as if he had taken a gulp of ice-cold cola in the scorching summer heat. A cool, refreshing chill swept through his body, raising goosebumps on his skin.

He had not even felt this way when the game system awakened and gave him Asura's Chakra.

That was because, back then, Ryusuke had felt only excitement and fear. After all, he had not known whether the dropped Asura's Chakra contained some hidden safeguard left behind by the Six Paths Sage.

Now that he had figured everything out, seeing Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan filled Ryusuke with nothing but wild delight.

As everyone knew, the world of Naruto was also known as the "Legend of Eyes: Five-Village Warfare."

Rather than a world where bloodlines reigned supreme, it was more accurate to call it a world where ocular techniques reigned supreme.

The Sharingan's evolutionary path was the best measure of a ninja's strength level.

One tomoe corresponded to genin, two tomoe to chunin, three tomoe to jonin, Mangekyō to Kage-level, Eternal Mangekyo to Super Kage, and Rinnegan to Six Paths.

Mastering the Sharingan of a given stage meant being among the very best at that level.

The finest examples were Uchiha Itachi and Madara Uchiha.

They had both developed the Mangekyō Sharingan and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to their utmost limits, making them absurdly overpowered existences at their respective levels.

Moreover, the Sharingan and Rinnegan possessed all kinds of abilities, giving them terrifying immediate combat power.

Ryusuke had always wanted to obtain Indra's Chakra, on the same level as Asura's Chakra, from Sasuke Uchiha. That way, his ceiling would reach the Six Paths level.

Unfortunately, he had never gotten his wish.

But now that he had obtained Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan, Ryusuke was already satisfied.

As long as he evolved his Sharingan to the Mangekyō Sharingan stage, it would become an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan that would never go blind.

Because Ryusuke possessed Asura's Chakra, his physique was a Sage Body inherited from the Six Paths Sage. His ocular power consumption was incredibly low, and his recovery speed was astonishingly fast—even more so than Obito Uchiha, whose body was half Hashirama Cells.

Even if he remained unlucky in the future and failed to obtain Indra's Chakra from Sasuke Uchiha, Ryusuke would only need to follow Madara Uchiha's example and implant Sasuke Uchiha's cells into his body. After waiting a few decades, he would have a chance of awakening the Rinnegan.

At the thought of this, Ryusuke could hardly wait to fuse with Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan.

But his remaining rationality made him abandon the idea. For once, he eagerly wanted the exam to end sooner.

Over half an hour later, the No-Rules Duel finally came to an end.

The female teacher continued treating the injured students, while Iruka listed the results for Ryusuke and the others.

All the winners received full marks, while the losers received either low or high scores based on their performances.

Once the injured students had all recovered, Ryusuke and the others finally faced the final assessment: the Survival Exercise.

Like the first-year Survival Exercise, the fifth-year Survival Exercise was also a game of hide-and-seek.

But unlike first-years, who only knew the Invisibility Technique, fifth-year students had already learned all the basics.

If they were capable enough, they could use the Three Body Technique and Body Flicker Technique to evade Iruka. As long as they were not caught within the allotted time, they would receive full marks.

Likewise, unlike when he had gone easy on them in their first year, Iruka would search very seriously now.

Of course, as long as a student's disguise and evasive methods were not too clumsy, Iruka would still go easy on them to some extent.

Naturally, Ryusuke also received full marks in this assessment.

By the time the Survival Exercise scores came out, the sun had long since set, leaving only a trace of sunset glow on the horizon.

After parting with Ino and the other two girls and agreeing to train together tomorrow, Ryusuke did not head home immediately. Instead, he went to a shop and bought a pair of colored contact lenses.

This world had colored contact lenses. The cameraman Kakashi had impersonated after taking off his mask in the original story had worn them.

Over the past few years, Ryusuke had always hoped to obtain Hinata's Byakugan and Sasuke Uchiha's Sharingan.

However, these two ocular techniques were among the three great eye techniques. Their fame in the Shinobi World far surpassed even the legendary Rinnegan, and they were known to every household.

If Ryusuke really did obtain the Byakugan and Sharingan, he absolutely could not reveal them in Konoha.

After all, he was only a civilian orphan.

If he exposed them, unless Sarutobi Hiruzen protected him personally, Shimura Danzō would definitely come knocking first.

Even if Shimura Danzō did not come for him, Hyuga Hiashi would.

But Ryusuke could not bear to hide those two ocular techniques and never use them.

So, from a very young age, he had already been considering a solution.

At present, there were two methods.

The first was to wear sunglasses from childhood onward. While that would be somewhat strange, people would not see him as a freak.

Besides the Aburame Clan, plenty of people in Konoha liked wearing sunglasses.

For example, Konohamaru's teacher, Konoha's Special Jonin Ebisu.

However, after visiting shops everywhere and discovering that Konoha also sold colored contact lenses, Ryusuke gave up on the idea of wearing sunglasses.

Compared to colored contact lenses, sunglasses were not safe enough.

If he fought an enemy and his sunglasses were shattered, Ryusuke would either have to kill everyone present or hide his ocular techniques.

Besides, sunglasses affected his appearance too much. Without using his ocular techniques, everything would look black through them, which was far too ugly.

So Ryusuke decisively chose colored contact lenses.

After returning home, Ryusuke immediately rushed into the bathroom, stood before the mirror, summoned the Virtual Panel, and fused with Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan.

When the Red Light Cluster turned into a beam of light, flew out of the Space Backpack, and seeped into Ryusuke's body, then...

There was no then!

Just as when he fused with Asura's Chakra, Ryusuke's body did not undergo any change.

In fact, it was even less noticeable than when he fused with Asura's Chakra.

After fusing with Asura's Chakra, when Ryusuke extracted chakra, it had at least changed from a child peeing into turning on a faucet.

But after fusing with Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan, neither his appearance nor his inner condition changed at all.

The black tomoe he had imagined did not appear in his beautiful red eyes either.

Ryusuke stood there blankly for a moment before coming back to his senses.

He quickly understood the reason.

Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan...

From that description, it was clear that what Ryusuke had obtained was not Sasuke Uchiha's Sharingan, but the Uchiha Clan's Kekkei Genkai.

A special ability like a Kekkei Genkai had to be awakened before it could be used.

With that thought, Ryusuke immediately summoned the Virtual Panel.

Sure enough, the Kekkei Genkai section was no longer blank. It now contained three additional words—Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan.

Yes, only the Sharingan.

The Sage Body did not count as a Kekkei Genkai.

The fact that the Sharingan needed to be awakened before it could be used was undoubtedly good news for Ryusuke.

It meant that once Ryusuke's Sharingan evolved to the Mangekyō Sharingan stage, its unique ocular technique would not be the same as Sasuke Uchiha's. Instead, it would develop into a unique ocular technique that belonged solely to him!

At the thought of this, Ryusuke was filled with anticipation for the future.

The endurance granted by the Sage Body, the immediate combat power granted by the Sharingan... Ryusuke's potential ceiling had now reached the Super Kage level.