"So this is... the power of the Sharingan. Kagami, I'll take your eyes."
Night lay thick.
Standing amid the wreckage, Hiruzen Sarutobi was covered in blood, holding a pair of slightly dimmed scarlet eyeballs.
As he looked at the Mangekyō Sharingan in his hands, Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes were filled with pained regret.
Kagami Uchiha had paid no heed to the damage to these eyes, continuously using [Izanagi] to rewrite the reality of being directly swallowed by the dream. As a result, this pair of Mangekyō Sharingan had almost gone blind less than a day after awakening.
Even so, Hiruzen Sarutobi still had no intention of giving up these eyes.
He raised his hands, and blood ran down his cheeks.
In an instant, he gouged out both of his own eyes and casually tossed them into a pool of blood on the ground, where they were immediately submerged.
His empty sockets were a mangled, horrifying sight, hot blood constantly pouring from them.
Then he lifted the pair of nearly blind Mangekyō Sharingan in both hands and aligned them with his empty sockets.
Inch by inch.
Kagami Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan slowly settled into the warm, bloody sockets.
He used Medical Ninjutsu to reconnect the severed nerves, reattached the ruptured blood vessels, and forcibly joined the tissue around the eyes.
As the eyes fully connected, the three tomoe spun rapidly and overlapped within Hiruzen Sarutobi's sockets. The intricate, magnificent Mangekyō patterns once again shone with an eerie scarlet gleam.
The moment the Mangekyō Sharingan activated, Hiruzen Sarutobi froze in place. Then his entire body began to tremble violently.
"Hahahaha, hahahahahahahaha!!! So that's how it works! So that's how it works!!!! Is this your Dōjutsu, Kagami!!!"
Dōjutsu: [Eight Thoughts and Perceptions].
In an instant, everything within Hiruzen Sarutobi's sight-the soil beneath his feet, the