Inside the interrogation room.
Dead silence.
True dead silence.
Everyone stared at Shingetsu's eyes.
Crimson.
Cold.
Eerie.
Within his pupils, shattered chains and blades of judgment intertwined into a brand-new Mangekyō pattern.
Not Three-Tomoe.
Not Genjutsu fluctuations.
A true Mangekyō Sharingan!
Shisui was the first to react.
His own Mangekyō trembled faintly beyond his control.
As a fellow Mangekyō wielder, he understood better than anyone what that ocular power meant.
Shingetsu had awakened his eyes.
Not Three-Tomoe.
But Mangekyō!
A Mangekyō at nine years old!
Itachi stood nearby, his expression changing completely.
He had always known Shingetsu grew quickly.
But at this moment, "quickly" was no longer enough to describe it.
This shattered all common sense.
Fugaku's breathing grew heavy for a moment.
The Uchiha clan producing geniuses like Shisui, Itachi, and Shingetsu in the same generation had already been astonishing.
But Shingetsu awakening Mangekyō at nine still left even him, the clan head, shaken.
Tekka was completely stunned.
Then he erupted with joy.
"Mangekyō..."
"HAHAHAHA!"
"Mangekyō!"
"Shingetsu awakened Mangekyō!"
"A Mangekyō at nine!"
"Who dares bully our Uchiha now?!"
His voice nearly blew the roof off the interrogation room.
The Anbu, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Shikaku Nara all fell silent.
Because they knew this was no ordinary pair of eyes.
It was a strategic-level power.
Especially now, with Danzo freshly fallen, Root collapsing, and the Uchiha gaining momentum, Shingetsu's Mangekyō awakening carried enormous significance.
Enough to change Konoha's balance of power.
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Shingetsu, his feelings incomparably complicated.
If Shingetsu had merely been the Uchiha's sharpest blade before—
Then now, he had become a weapon sharp enough to influence the village's entire situation.
A Mangekyō at nine.
His future was limitless.
But precisely because of that, the Third Hokage felt an unshakable trace of wariness rise within him