White bandages slipped away one after another. Sasuke's closed eyelids twitched a few times before his eyes slowly opened, the patterns engraved in his pupils as dazzling as stars.
"It isn't Sasuke's own six-pointed star, nor Itachi's black three-bladed sickle, but a new Mangekyo Sharingan formed by their fusion."
Uchiha Senmon's expression was solemn as his gaze sharpened.
"And this ocular power is completely different from before. So this is the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan!"
Suddenly, Sasuke turned his face toward him. The indifferent gaze of his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan swept over Uchiha Senmon, leaving him as if struck by lightning, his hands and feet ice-cold.
"Where have your Susanoo and your Wood Release gone?"
Uchiha Senmon panted, his face grim and his breathing slightly strained.
A single glance had suppressed him.
Was the gulf between the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and an ordinary Mangekyo Sharingan really this vast...?
"You wasted all your ocular power controlling those two beasts, the One-Tail and Three-Tails. That's why the Nine-Tails Demon Fox beat you so utterly."
Just as Sasuke had said, if Uchiha Senmon had focused on his own Senjutsu, Wood Release, and Mangekyo Sharingan, he might have been able to fight the Nine-Tails Demon Fox longer.
The plan to use Shukaku and Isobu to hold the Nine-Tails Demon Fox in check was not a bad move, but the risk Uchiha Senmon had failed to account for was that the Nine-Tails Demon Fox was far stronger than he had imagined.
"Hmph. Take those two useless beasts away."
Sasuke Uchiha leaped from Turtle Island's dragon head and landed on a cliff on North Iwo Island, which had been split apart by a Tailed Beast Bomb. Facing the Nine-Tails Demon Fox standing on the sea, he said coldly:
"Watch closely. This is how the Uchiha Clan's eyes