Otonobe!
Once activated, the Sharingan's field of vision was unaffected by adverse conditions such as fog, and its grasp of detail could reach the precision of "femtoseconds." That excessively minute dynamic vision and profound "pre-reading" could even create the illusion that "things were slowing down," giving the user more room to maneuver.
Insight and a fighter's awareness complemented one another. The stronger one's fighting spirit, the more power this technique could unleash.
This was the ocular power of Uchiha Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan, his right eye.
"I see..." Nagato, who had long been thoroughly familiar with the Hokage's official databooks, immediately made the connection.
The official databook, the Book of Formation, described Uchiha Izuna as a formidable enemy who "hardly ever revealed an opening." The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, had expended tremendous effort before finding Izuna's blind spot, developing the Flying Thunder God Technique and successfully defeating Izuna with the Flying Thunder God Slash!
As for that outcome, all that could be said was... why had Izuna been born if Tobirama had to exist?
Before Izuna died, he entrusted his Mangekyō Sharingan to his elder brother, helping Madara obtain eternal light. And Otonobe, an ocular technique born for the strong, had reached its true peak in the eyes of Madara, the mightiest of them all!
And now... this technique had once again revealed its splendor in Nagato's eyes.
(In mythology, the Ofutone Earth Deity and the Otonobe Deity were brother and sister, which was why they were combined into one eye here.)
The long blade of the Kusanagi Sword retracted into Orochimaru's throat, and he made no effort to conceal the longing in his eyes.
"Otonobe, huh? An ocular technique that surpassed the insight of an ordinary Sharingan... No wonder it belonged to Uchiha Madara, the man who had contended with