Looking at Qian's eyes—apart from their color, they were identical to his own—Nagato's expression changed dramatically.
"How is this possible? Why are your eyes..."
"They're the same as yours, aren't they?"
Before Nagato could finish, Qian spoke.
Hearing the faintly indifferent tone in Qian's voice, Nagato suddenly calmed down.
Seeing this, Qian couldn't help sighing inwardly. As expected of someone who could shout, 'A bag of rice can carry several floors.' His emotional adjustment is really fast!
The scene was silent for several seconds before Qian continued, "Actually, I should be the one asking you. Why do you have these eyes?
"As far as I know, you shouldn't be a ninja of the Uchiha clan, right?"
As he spoke, he raised his head and glanced at the distant location where Nagato was hiding.
At this, Nagato's expression changed again.
After a brief silence, he said, "What do you mean by saying I'm not a ninja of the Uchiha clan?"
Heh heh~ I knew you'd ask that...
Qian chuckled inwardly.
Then, pretending to be equally puzzled, he said, "Our kind of eyes are called the Rinnegan. They evolved from the Mangekyō Sharingan.
"And the Mangekyō Sharingan is an eye that only a very small number of Uchiha clan ninjas can awaken.
"As far as I know, before me, only the previous Clan Head, Uchiha Madara, had awakened these eyes. So how did you awaken them?"
"Uchiha Madara..."
Nagato murmured.
In an instant, he thought of Obito Uchiha—or rather, Uchiha Madara disguised by Obito Uchiha.
If, in the past, he had not cared much about the authenticity of the Uchiha Madara identity Obito Uchiha had assumed, relying on the power of the Sage's eyes and merely treating him as someone he could use,
then after hearing Qian's words, he immediately began to