However, after he drank that pot, something strange happened. Instead of bone-piercing cold, a thick layer of ice began forming beneath Uchiha Hikaru's feet!
In the blink of an eye, his entire body was sealed within the ice.
He had no thoughts, as though his ability to think had frozen over. His memory was gone.
Uchiha Hikaru now seemed to have entered an endless abyss without color, a black hole of thought where he wandered without end.
At that moment, he had even forgotten who he was.
Korin shouted outside, startling Kami above. At that very moment, he could no longer sense Uchiha Hikaru's ki!
It had vanished.
"Big Cat, where is Uchiha Hikaru?"
Korin had yet to react. He was still trapped in amnesia.
When Kami asked him again, Korin plucked out one of his own whiskers. The pain snapped him awake, and he said, "That brat drank an entire pot of Super Holy Water! He's frozen into an ice pillar now!"
"Nani! He drank an entire pot? Didn't you tell him Super Holy Water was dangerous?"
"I did. He knew it himself."
"It's over. What a waste of talent. His ki has disappeared."
"His aura disappeared?" Korin was alarmed as well. Ki could not be concealed. If someone truly had no aura left at all, it could only mean one thing: they were dead.
Looking at the ice sculpture before him, with Uchiha Hikaru lifelike beneath the thick ice, Korin still could not believe that he had died just like that. Death was something far too distant for people like them.
Since that was the case, he could not just leave the ice sculpture blocking his shrine. It would be terrible for his image. If someone came to visit and saw this ice sculpture at first glance, they