"Yazi?"
Inside the Training Ground.
Nobihi's puzzled voice rang out. "And Nii-san, what exactly is this Dawn..."
In truth.
He had his suspicions. Shisui had once appeared before him in a guise he had never seen before...
It had shaken him deeply.
Shinji waved a hand. Clearly, he had no intention of explaining Dawn to Nobihi in detail.
People were always like this.
They seemed to have the least patience for those closest to them.
They held them to strangely harsh standards.
"Yazi, a Mythical Beast. Bloodthirsty, fond of fighting, fierce by nature. It repays the smallest kindness and never lets the slightest grudge go... Hmm."
Shinji considered it. "I never expected the name to suit your personality so well..."
Nobihi: "..."
Shisui: "...Shinji, that's enough. Who talks about his own little brother like that?"
Shinji glanced at Nobihi, then shook his head with a smile. "That settles it. Oh, right, Shisui. Since we're on the subject, I still don't know what your Heavenly Rock Cave Dōjutsu does."
Shisui looked exasperated. "I can't believe you're only asking now."
"Cut the chatter!"
"Heavenly Rock Cave... represents protection. It transfers your body into a separate dimension called 'Heavenly Rock Cave.' But to everyone watching, you're still there, and you still take damage."
"Once the Dōjutsu ends, though, your Original Body in Heavenly Rock Cave switches places with the double left in the real world."
Shisui thought for a moment. "So, in theory, it can negate any injury. But it doesn't work on my other eye. Only that eye."
"That's the strange part. It can even replace a severed arm... but the eye that holds Kotoamatsukami won't recover."
As he spoke, Shisui looked genuinely puzzled.
"..."
Sometimes, Shinji really wanted to crack open this guy's skull and take a look.
Was it full