"Ah—"
"How could I...!"
"Yahiko! It's Yahiko!"
"..."
Nagato suddenly staggered back, clutching his head and roaring.
"Nagato!"
Yahiko was frantic, but Wuye was still treating him, so he could not move.
"It was you! You hurt Yahiko!"
Nagato suddenly raised his right hand and covered his eye.
"You... don't even think about hurting... Yahiko again!"
His index finger slashed fiercely from his left temple toward his left eye, piercing it!
"Ah! Stop!—"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice came from his mouth again.
"These eyes! Don't think you can use them again!"
Nagato's finger gouged out his left eye, then slashed toward his right.
"Nagato!"
Yahiko panicked.
Blinding his own eyes with his own hand—what agony and resolve that took.
"Yahiko..."
Nagato suddenly smiled. "Being able to see you one more time, I have no regrets..."
His hand suddenly thrust toward his own chest again.
But before Yahiko could cry out again, Nagato's hand stopped.
"Hmph! You actually had the resolve to gouge out your own eyes!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki regained control of the body, though blood was still streaming from both eyes.
Madara Uchiha looked up at the sky, desperately wanting to roar: Those are my eyes!
Boom!
Wuye released Yahiko, and Minato immediately caught the falling Yahiko in perfect coordination.
The next moment, Wuye appeared before Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and kicked him flying.
At the same time, six Truth-Seeking Orbs shot out together, transforming into sharp cones that stabbed straight at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"What a pity..."
But an utterly insincere sigh came from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's mouth.
"The eyes I have waited for until now... have already healed..."
The bloody line on his forehead suddenly split open, revealing a blood-red Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
Buzz!
The cones formed from the Truth-Seeking Orbs suddenly froze.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki shot into the sky, his whole body merging