Transcription Seal

"All right, stop bawling." Xiu grabbed Izumi's little face and turned it toward him. "Look in my eyes!"

The moment their eyes met, Uchiha Izumi's gaze drifted slightly.

But after a brief moment of awkwardness, she forced herself to calm down and quietly stared into Xiu's eyes.

Xiu's eyelashes were so long...

Mm, they were really pretty!

Just as Izumi was thinking that, Xiu's eyes suddenly turned blood-red. The three tomoe in his pupils spun rapidly, transforming into an intricate shuriken pattern before her astonished gaze.

"What... is that?"

"This is the Mangekyō Sharingan, beyond the three-tomoe Sharingan." Xiu did not elaborate. If possible, he hoped Izumi would never awaken the Mangekyo in her entire life.

"So beautiful..." Uchiha Izumi murmured softly.

Without cloning methods, no two pairs of Mangekyo in the world would have identical patterns.

Even when the same ocular technique was awakened by different people, the patterns would differ, like Sasuke's and Itachi's Amaterasu.

Thus, although both were Kamui, Xiu's Mangekyo pattern differed from Obito's.

Obito's Mangekyo bore the pattern of a three-bladed shuriken with reverse edges.

Xiu's Mangekyo, meanwhile, had a rice-shaped pattern: two embedded four-bladed shuriken patterns, one large and one small. The larger one was solid black, while the smaller one was hollow, making it considerably more intricate than an ordinary Mangekyo.

Under normal circumstances, although Earth Mother's gifts were incredibly powerful, they would not directly improve Xiu's personal strength.

But unlike the other gifts, this pair of Kamui Mangekyo was part of the bloodline genes he had possessed all along, merely activated by Earth Mother.

And the activation had been perfect. The moment they awakened, they were Eternal Mangekyo!

That gave Xiu an idea.

There had been a theory online in his previous life: Mangekyo users went blind because their inherited genes were incomplete.

Therefore, transplanting the Mangekyo of a blood relative would completely make up for that missing portion, resulting in the so-called Eternal Mangekyo. This was also the more mainstream interpretation of the Mangekyo.

Xiu's hypothesis was the opposite: when an Uchiha awakened the Mangekyo, it should originally have been a complete Eternal Mangekyo.

But the extreme emotions at the time of awakening, along with the impact of Yin Release chakra, caused damage to some portion of their genes—or something else.

Of course, this was only a hypothesis. After all, as Earth Mother's most beloved child, Xiu believed that even if he had been born with incomplete genes, dear Earth Mother would have filled in the missing parts for him.

And the lunatics in the clan were not suitable test subjects right now.

But since Izumi liked it so much, if he could subdue Orochimaru later, he could give it a try.

If it worked, he would get Izumi a pair first.

As the two spoke quietly, enormous ocular power flowed continuously into Izumi's eyes.

As the ocular power entered, Izumi's Sharingan activated as well. The three tomoe in her pupils spun rapidly, eventually transforming into the exact same Mangekyo pattern as Xiu's.

"Transcription Seal: Kamui!"

Xiu formed the Ram hand seal. The Kamui patterns in Izumi's eyes instantly contracted, reverting to three tomoe.

"What was that?" Izumi raised a hand and gently covered her right eye, feeling as though something had appeared within both eyes.

"After awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, each eye develops its own unique ocular technique. This is my Mangekyo ocular technique: Kamui."

Xiu explained to them, "I sealed ocular power within your Sharingan. If you suffer a fatal attack or Genjutsu, this ocular technique will activate automatically, making your body passively intangible for up to twenty minutes and immediately transferring you to my Kamui Space."

"Twenty minutes?" Izumi could not help crying out.

Xiu nodded. Not only Izumi—he was surprised too.

But it made sense when he thought about it. Uchiha Madara, with only one Rinnegan, could release just one Limbo Clone. But with both eyes, he could release four at once!

The original story had also stated that Kamui with both eyes gathered activated far faster than with one eye, and the ocular technique produced an effect where one plus one was greater than two.

Compared with Obito's five-minute limit for intangibility with one eye in the original story, it was basically certain that the ocular power of both eyes was roughly four times that of one eye. This had not changed because of the difference between the Mangekyo and Rinnegan.

"What an outrageous ocular technique. This practically makes one invincible from birth." Even Uchiha Hazuki could not help sighing.

As the only officially registered ninja present with actual combat experience—and one who had even lived through the Third Shinobi World War—she knew perfectly well how absurd this technique was.

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had instantly killed dozens of Iwagakure jonin with his Flying Thunder God.

In terms of ability, Xiu's ocular technique was in no way inferior to the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God!

"Mm, that's not wrong." Xiu thought for a moment. "With the Pacifier, the cloak, and my Transcription Seal, as long as the information doesn't leak, you basically won't face any mortal danger. But if you insist on courting death, that's another matter."

Izumi pouted. "Do I really look that dumb?"

"Heh~"

Xiu chuckled. He said nothing, yet seemed to have said everything. "Aunt Hazuki, your turn."

"Ahhh, you stinking little brother!" Izumi lunged at Xiu, but missed completely.

"If you're bad, practice more, o~ne~e~san~." Xiu raised a hand and slapped Izumi on the back, sending her stumbling.

"Damn it!!!"

Izumi spun around and chased Xiu all over the room.

She really wanted to hear Xiu call her big sister, but definitely not under these circumstances, and definitely not in that mocking tone!

What a fast Body Flicker!

Watching Uchiha Shu appear behind Izumi in an instant, a trace of surprise flashed through Hazuki's eyes.

In truth, she had not been surprised by the strange items Xiu had brought out earlier, because when he was just over a year old, she had already seen him holding that Pacifier from who knew where and sucking on it.

She had seen all of Xiu's little gadgets before as well, and had noticed more or less that something was unusual about them.

Even Shisui could sense that Xiu was strange, much less Uchiha Hazuki, who had taken care of him for several years.

Based on Hazuki's understanding of Xiu, there was no way he did not know the value of those things. Clearly, he had never intended to hide them from her from the start, and now he was even directly sharing them with the two of them.

After Xiu displayed his strength, she felt proud, but she also felt as though the child had grown up.

She was gratified, yet inexplicably a little saddened.

Children left their parents once they grew up, and Xiu had the temperament of a stray cat. Before he was even old enough for school, he had impatiently moved back into his own home.

Although she could tell that Xiu wanted to lessen her burden, that only made her blame herself more. She believed it was because she was not capable enough that a child had to think about such things on her behalf.

Watching the siblings playfully bicker before her, Uchiha Hazuki propped her cheek on her right hand and unconsciously sighed, "It would be nice if Izumi could marry little Xiu someday~"

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