Lin Ze looked thoughtful.
He remembered that after Ryōta had awakened the Eternal Eye, during the month he had spent on Ascension Island waiting for Uchiha Itachi to awaken his own Eternal Eye, he had tried using "Myriad Mangekyō Return to Origin" to fuse Lin Ze's Dōjutsu.
In the end, he had only succeeded in fusing "Amaterasu."
After all, Ryōta already had "Divine Crossing," whose effects overlapped with "God Pursuit," so there was no need to fuse it. As for "Divine Healing: Rewind" and "Divine Healing · Wall," Ryōta had said at the time-
He could not fuse them.
"It wasn't that they couldn't be fused, but that fusing them would trigger a special reaction he couldn't control..."
Lin Ze murmured to himself.
Ryōta's exact words had been, "These two abilities... the instant they fused, I felt the laws of time fluctuate violently. I nearly lost control. If I hadn't stopped in time, my eyes might have suffered a backlash from the temporal turbulence."
The laws of time.
Those words stirred something in Lin Ze.
Although the Hokage World had Space-Time Ninjutsu, very few abilities truly involved the "laws of time"—the Ryūmyaku counted as one, "Izanami" counted as half of one, and Dōjutsu that rewound time...
Were rarer still.
If stacking these abilities really could reach the level of the "laws of time," then their value... went far beyond that of a mere Dōjutsu.
"No wonder I felt this craving..."
Lin Ze tightened his grip on the container.
It was not greed. Rather, this world... or some instinct within him, was driving him to obtain this ability.
Just as the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon had once craved the Ryūmyaku.
"But... now isn't the time."
Lin Ze took a deep breath and sealed the container back inside the scroll.
After