"Kneel down!!"
Shimura Danzō's hoarse yet supremely majestic "divine oracle," carrying a terrifying spiritual torrent capable of distorting reality, swept across endless distances like an invisible, heaven-defying tidal wave, crashing fiercely into the Divine Grace Hall in the Moon Palace!
At that moment, the whole world seemed to have been Shizune.
At the summit of Hokage Rock, a thousand Uchiha children held their breath, their thousands of Three-Tomoe Sharingan fixed on the enormous screen of light in the sky!
Billions of viewers worldwide watched with bated breath, unable to imagine the cataclysmic apocalypse that would ensue if the god-like Uchiha Gen'yō were truly controlled by such an evil Dōjutsu!
Even on Hiruzen Sarutobi's already ashen face, a sickly, complex expression—a mixture of fear and anticipation—involuntarily appeared.
If Danzo succeeds, does that mean Konoha still has a glimmer of hope?
However--
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely at that moment.
The anticipated earth-shattering clash of wills did not occur.
The humiliating scene of the deity kneeling in submission that I had imagined did not occur.
Above the light curtain in the sky, Divine Grace Hall, everything was as usual.
The man reclining on the throne didn't even change his posture.
He remained as languid as ever, seemingly uninterested in everything, but his Kamui eyes, burning with nine golden halos, held a hint of—how to put it—
It's like a bored human observing an ant that's desperately trying to push a grain of rice toward them.
There was no anger, no seriousness, not even the slightest fluctuation in his eyes.
There is only a pure disregard, stemming from a higher dimension of life.
In the deathly silence of the world, a faint voice, full of amusement and mockery, slowly descended upon the entire battlefield through the loudspeaker system.
That's it?
boom!
These two simple words, however, were like a spiritual nuclear bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons, detonating in everyone's minds!
Shimura Danzō's face, which was filled with "divine majesty," froze instantly!
The muscles in his face began to twitch uncontrollably, and his single eye was filled with incomprehensible, utter astonishment and horror!
How is that possible?!
Why was his " Ultimate Kotoamatsukami," capable of altering reality and overriding will, completely useless?!
This is unreasonable!
This completely contradicts the laws governing Dōjutsu!
"Impossible!" Danzo roared, his voice muffled and strained. "You must have used some method to withstand it! I don't believe it! I don't believe that one person's will could be strong enough to disregard the power of Kotoamatsukami!"
"Hehe."
On the throne, Uchiha Gen'yō finally let out a soft laugh.
He slowly lowered his hand that was supporting his chin, and looked down with pity at the pathetic ant that was still making its last struggle, as if it were an idiot.
"Ignore it? No, you're mistaken."
"I am not 'resisting' your Dōjutsu."
"I'm just enjoying your clumsy, clown-like performance."
"Because I knew it from the beginning--"
Uchiha Gen'yō's voice suddenly changed, becoming as cold as the Siberia wind and filled with merciless mockery!
"Your so-called 'Ultimate Kotoamatsukami Heaven' is a complete fabrication!"
"Those ten pairs of eyes you're so proud of--"
"They're all fakes!"
Counterfeit?!
These three words were like three of the sharpest, most poisoned daggers, piercing deep into the already twisted soul of Shimura Danzō!
"No!! You're lying! You're spouting nonsense!!" Danzo screamed hysterically. He couldn't accept it! He absolutely couldn't accept that the strongest trump card he had acquired with his entire life and by bearing all his sins was a fake?!
" Orochimaru personally transplanted these for me! They contain Shisui Uchiha's eyes! It's real! It must be real!"
" Orochimaru?" Uchiha Gen'yō's sarcasm deepened. "You still believe that venomous snake's words?"
His gaze slowly fell on Orochimaru, who was being held captive by Itachi and was already terrified out of his wits.
Orochimaru's body trembled violently; he could feel the eyes of the entire world focused on him at that moment!
" Orochimaru, tell him," Uchiha Gen'yō's voice was calm yet filled with undeniable authority, "Tell this poor wretch what those 'eyes' on his arms really are."
Orochimaru forced a smile that looked more like a grimace. He knew this was the last and only chance the gods were giving him to confess and receive leniency.
He struggled to lift his head, looking at Danzo who had completely descended into madness, and said in a hoarse voice filled with pity and self-mockery, " Lord Danzo, our lord is right."
"Those eyes on your arm, apart from the one that truly belongs to Shisui Uchiha— "
"The other nine--"
"They are all clones that I forcibly created using extremely small amounts of cell tissue I obtained from Shisui back then, in a culture medium containing the First Hokage's cells."
"It's a fake."
boom!
Orochimaru's confession became the final straw that broke the camel's back!
At that moment, Shimura Danzō's mind went completely blank!
Clones?
Counterfeit?
He was scammed.
He was used as a guinea pig for testing new products by Orochimaru, that venomous snake, from beginning to end!
His so-called " Ten-Eyed Kotoamatsukami " is nothing more than a farcical one-man show performed by one genuine product leading nine fake ones!
His so-called "divine power" was a huge joke from the very beginning!
"Aaaaaah!" Danzo his mouth but couldn't utter a sound; his mind completely collapsed at that moment!
Uchiha Gen'yō's icy voice continued, delivering the cruelest finishing blow to him.
Do you really think that tying a bunch of light bulbs together will make them emit the light of the Greater Yang?
"Cloned eyes might be able to mimic the 'form' of the Sharingan, but they can never possess the true 'soul' of the Uchiha —that unique soul imprint forged from bloodline, emotion, and immense spiritual power!"
"By using this bunch of imposters to imitate Kotoamatsukami, all you can manage is a crude mental storm."
"And this storm couldn't even shake the will of an ordinary member of my tribe, let alone—"
"It's me?"
puff!
A mouthful of black blood, mixed with despair and humiliation, gushed out from Shimura Danzō's mouth!
His old face seemed to age decades in an instant, turning ashen and lifeless as a corpse!
He lost.
They suffered a crushing defeat.
He lost like a clown.
However, just when everyone thought that the old man would completely collapse and submit to execution, an even purer and more insane evil thought reignited from the depths of his shattered soul!
Fake?
Counterfeit?
So what!
Even if this so-called " Ultimate Kotoamatsukami " is fake!
but!
The other trump card he's holding on his arm is real!
That ultimate Genjutsu, the ultimate forbidden technique, personally taught by Madara Uchiha!
A Creation technique powerful enough to completely reverse "reality" and "illusion"!
"Hehehehe," Danzo suddenly let out a low, eerie laugh.
He slowly raised his head, and a final, most complete madness burst forth from his single eye!
" Uchiha Gen'yō! You think this is over?!"
He roared and poured all the Chakra in his body into that evil arm!
On his arm, the real Mangekyō Sharingan belonging to Shisui Uchiha, along with the other nine imposters, simultaneously unleashed an unprecedented, eerie, blood-red light!
Even if Kotoamatsukami is fake!
"But ' Izanagi ' is real!"
"Before the ten ' Creation's' that these eyes can unleash, I am immortal and indestructible!"
"And you—"
"They will all die at my hands, with my 'immortal' body!"
" Izanagi —Activate!!"