"Give these eyes... to Itachi."
Fugaku tucked the eyeballs into the storage bell around Xiaohei's neck, his voice growing weaker:
"Tell him... this is his father's... final gift..."
"Tell him... to live on..."
Xiaohei nodded hard, eyes brimming with tears. "Meow! I'll make sure he gets them!"
With that, it vanished into the night with a pop.
The surrounding ninja were stunned.
They had never expected Uchiha Fugaku to gouge out his own eyes!
"He... he dug out his Mangekyō?"
"Then his Susanoo should disappear, right?"
"No! Look-!"
An Inuzuka Clan member pointed behind Fugaku in terror.
The outline of the Susanoo, which had already dissipated, actually appeared again!
But this time, it was no longer orange. Instead, it was... a blinding blood red!
Bones, flesh, armor-every part was stained crimson, as though formed from blood.
Inside the Susanoo's crystal, blood streamed endlessly from Fugaku's empty eye sockets, yet he slowly straightened up.
"How is that possible... without his Mangekyō, how can he still maintain Susanoo?!"
Shikaku Nara cried out.
The blood-red Susanoo moved.
It had no weapons, only a pair of enormous fists, but every punch struck with terrifying destructive power!
"Get out of the way-!"
Boom!!!
Its fist struck the ground, crushing three ninja who failed to dodge into pulp. Like a crazed beast, the blood-red Susanoo rampaged through the crowd.
There was no method, no technique, only a pure outpouring of strength.
Yet that very madness kept the Konoha ninja from daring to approach for a time.
"He's burning through his life..."
Torifu Akimichi's expression was grave. "Without ocular power to support it, he's forcibly maintaining Susanoo with his life force... he's truly gone mad."
One minute.
The blood-red Susanoo rampaged for a full minute.
It smashed down half a stretch of the perimeter wall and killed