Ren withdrew his hand, and the screen of light vanished.
"That's my question to you."
Nagato stared at him.
"Impossible!"
"Madara Uchiha spent decades fusing Hashirama's Cells with his own before his Mangekyō Sharingan evolved into the Rinnegan."
"You haven't transplanted Hashirama's Cells or spent decades cultivating them. How could you possibly awaken the Rinnegan?"
Ren offered no explanation.
The ripples in his eyes slowly turned, and the gravity above the crater briefly went haywire.
The Rinnegan's ocular power tore a gap through the force pressing down on him.
Ren took a step.
Boom!
The rock beneath his feet shattered.
He straightened under Thirtyfold Gravity, and Idaten roared to life within him once more.
"Your Rinnegan came from Madara Uchiha."
"Mine belongs to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, an astonished cry rang out from a distant hillside.
"The Rinnegan!"
The ninja on watch lowered his binoculars so abruptly that his voice cracked.
"There's another pair of Rinnegan on the battlefield besides Nagato's!"
"Are you sure you saw it?"
His companion snatched the binoculars and hurriedly looked toward the crater.
Through the lenses, Ren's purple, ripple-patterned eyes were unmistakable.
"It really is the Rinnegan!"
"There's a second pair in the world besides Nagato's!"
Several nearby scouts crowded around.
One even forgot to keep recording battlefield intelligence. He gripped the binoculars tightly, trembling with shock.
"How can the Sage of Six Paths' divine eyes appear in two people at once?"
"Could the Rinnegan not be unique?"
"Impossible! If those eyes were easy to awaken, Madara Uchiha wouldn't have spent decades doing it!"
"Send word back, now!"
"A second Rinnegan wielder has appeared in the Shinobi World. Every major ninja village needs this intelligence immediately!"
The news quickly reached the edge of the battlefield.
Members of the Akatsuki Organization and the