The All-Seeing Eyes That Analyze Everything

"Ah?!"

Shizune's mouth fell open. Tonton let out a startled squeak in her arms and buried her head in the crook of Shizune's elbow.

As the dust gradually settled, Sōji stood where he was, his right hand hanging at his side, his palm slightly red, but his expression calm.

Where the rock had stood before him, there was now only a huge crater and shattered stone fragments scattered all around it.

He tilted his head slightly toward Tsunade and asked in a tone as calm as if he had merely brewed a cup of tea, "Like this, Lady Tsunade?"

The silence was deafening.

Tsunade stared at him, complex emotions churning in her golden eyes—shock, wariness, scrutiny, and a flicker of excitement she could hardly conceal.

She had seen it clearly just now.

This brat's chakra control, that speed and precision of compression, was simply not something a normal twelve-year-old should possess. It was not even something a normal Jonin should possess.

Was it because of those eyes?

At the instant Sōji gathered chakra, Tsunade caught a detail: something had flashed beneath the black cloth covering his eyes.

It had been faint and fleeting, but in that instant, through the cloth, she had seen two brilliant points of light, like stars suddenly igniting in the night.

Those eyes had opened.

It was not the Byakugan's vein-bulging vision, nor the Sharingan's eerie crimson spin, but an entirely different kind of gaze.

Cold and precise, as though it could pierce through every surface and reach the essence of all things.

Tsunade suddenly recalled what the boy had said when they first met in the alley of Tanzaku Town: I can see many things.

"Those eyes of yours," Tsunade said slowly, her voice low, "what exactly are they?"

Sōji fell silent for a moment, then raised a hand and lightly touched the black cloth over his eyes.

"I was born with them. I call them the Six Eyes."

"But they do let me see many things, such as the flow of chakra, the paths of chakra channels, and the structure of ninjutsu."

"With that strike you demonstrated just now, I saw every detail of the chakra compression, then tried to imitate it."

He made it sound casual, but Shizune was dumbfounded.

"Just imitated it?" she murmured.

"Mm!" Sōji nodded. "I just imitated it a little more carefully."

"Just a little more carefully?"

Shizune's voice went shrill. "That was your first time using Chakra Enhanced Strength, and it was more effective than mine after two or three years of training! You call that imitation?"

Sōji considered it, then said seriously, "Miss Shizune's chakra control is very refined, but you focus too much on distributing it evenly."

"Chakra Enhanced Strength requires unevenness. You squeeze all the power into one point, while the other areas can even be left empty. It's like..."

He chose his words carefully, then glanced at Tsunade again. "Like betting your entire fortune on a single die instead of spreading your bets across big and small."

The analogy was so apt that Shizune could not refute it for a moment.

Tsunade suddenly laughed.

It was neither mockery nor a sneer, but a complicated smile tinged with a measure of relief.

"The Byakugan mainly sees the human body's chakra channels. The Sharingan sees chakra and predicts movements. But your eyes..."

She paused. "Can they directly analyze the essence of techniques? Three kinds of eyes, three ways of seeing. You eye freaks are more outrageous than the last."

As she spoke, she stepped closer. Then, before Sōji could react, she suddenly reached out and yanked off the black cloth over his eyes.

The afternoon sunlight shone directly down upon the eyes abruptly exposed to the air.

Shizune sucked in a breath.

What kind of eyes were those? Their base color was azure blue, yet countless tiny points of light seemed hidden deep within the pupils, like stardust frozen beneath ice, or the complex refractive structure inside some crystal.

They had no focus, yet seemed to be watching everything at once, so profound that no one dared meet their gaze.

Most strange of all, those eyes seemed to be moving—not the eyeballs themselves, but the points of light deep within the pupils, slowly turning and reforming, flickering with a regular glimmer as though calculating something.

Tsunade stared into those eyes, her pupils contracting slightly.

"The Hyuga's Byakugan can see through everything. The Uchiha's Sharingan can copy everything. And your eyes..."

She narrowed her eyes and enunciated each word. "They seem able to analyze everything."

"When I used Chakra Enhanced Strength just now, you did not merely see the flow of chakra. You also saw the sequence in which every muscle in my body exerted force."

"Including the shift in skeletal force, even the momentary deformation of the chakra channels, right?"

Sōji remained silent and did not deny it.

Tsunade let go, and the black cloth fell back into his hand. She turned and strode back to Shizune, pulled out a flask from her clothes, and took a swig.

"Shizune, stop comparing yourself."

She wiped her mouth. "Comparing your talent to that monster's is just asking for misery. Keep training. When you can shatter this rock with one palm strike, you'll pass."

Shizune looked like she wanted to cry, but she obediently nodded and went back to wrestling with her rock.

Sōji slowly tied the black cloth back over his eyes, concealing those overly conspicuous eyes. Looking at Tsunade's back, he suddenly spoke. "Lady Tsunade."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for not asking where my eyes came from."

Tsunade snorted without turning around. "Would you have told me if I asked?"

"...No."

"Then there you have it. I'll just assume you were born with them."

Without looking back, she took another drink. "The Shinobi World is huge. Who doesn't have a few secrets?"

"I've seen plenty of strange eye techniques, let alone your Six Eyes. As long as you don't use those things to do anything I can't stand to watch, I can't be bothered to interfere."

She paused, and her voice carried to him on the wind.

"But, brat, you'd better not let too many people see those eyes. The Byakugan and Sharingan are already enough to make people covet them. Your eyes are even more troublesome than those two combined. Understand?"

Sōji bowed slightly. "I understand!"

In the distance, Shizune was still battling her rock, dull thuds ringing out one after another. Tonton lay in the shadow by her feet, dozing peacefully.

The afternoon sun remained blazing. The hills of the Land of Gold rolled endlessly into the distance, while the squeaking of mine carts drifted faintly through the air.

Sōji stood where he was, feeling the lingering sting in his right palm and the chakra fluctuations within him slowly settling.

He had learned Chakra Enhanced Strength, but Tsunade's final words still made his heart sink slightly.

He understood the value of the Six Eyes better than anyone. What did the ability to analyze the essence of techniques mean in the Shinobi World?

It meant that any forbidden technique, secret technique, or Kekkei Genkai could potentially be copied, deciphered, or even improved, as long as he saw it fully once.

These eyes truly were more troublesome than the Sharingan and Byakugan combined.

He raised a hand and lightly touched his eye sockets through the black cloth. I still need to become stronger as soon as possible. Tsunade can protect me for a while, but not forever.

With his current strength, he could more or less face an ordinary Kage Level opponent without falling behind, but it was still not enough. There were too many capable people in this Shinobi World.

The Jujutsu System was his foundation, and by now, he had more or less figured out how this thing operated.

As long as he killed ninjas who possessed chakra, his Cursed Energy would increase. Other than that, Cursed Energy could not be increased through any form of training.

And once his Cursed Energy reached a certain threshold, the Jujutsu System could grant him more rewards through draws, even including [Innate Technique].

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