"You should have stayed hidden, boy. Now you will die." Kagami tightened his grip, his eyes cold and murderous.
"You... how could you still be alive?" Toneri Ōtsutsuki choked out, horrified. He never imagined anyone could survive a direct blast from the Giant Tenseigan, a force capable of splitting the moon in half. Yet, not only was the man unharmed, but he now held Toneri's life in his hands.
Kagami didn't answer. The pressure on Toneri's neck increased. The boy struggled, his face flushing red, his hands slapping uselessly against Kagami's arm. He was no match for Kagami's strength.
"Let me go! I am the young patriarch of the Ōtsutsuki clan, you can't kill me!" Toneri shrieked in terror.
Kagami ignored his pleas. "If you dare to attack me, you will die today, even if you are the king of heaven." He showed no mercy to those who sought to kill him.
Toneri's face contorted in fear. He opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out. His legs kicked wildly, but he couldn't break free. With a final, casual exertion of force, a sharp crack echoed through the cavern. Toneri's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he went limp.
Kagami tossed the body aside and walked back to the Giant Tenseigan. This time, there were no hidden enemies. He placed his hand on its surface and began to absorb its pupil power. A powerful energy surged from the eye and into his body. This was a technique he had created with Mahoraga and the Brain-Brain Fruit, combining principles of sealing, absorption, and power transfer to directly and quickly absorb eye power and chakra without any side effects.
He channeled all of the power into his original pair of eyes. He could feel his Sharingan evolving, growing more and more powerful. His spiritual power soared, and the world seemed to become clearer in his perception. After an unknown amount of time, the power in the Giant Tenseigan was completely absorbed. His Sharingan had evolved to a new level.
"Has my own Rinnegan finally opened?" Kagami murmured, a smile on his lips. His pupil power had undergone not just a quantitative change, but a qualitative one. The feeling was so wonderful it was as if he held the world in his hands. He created an ice mirror to observe his new eyes.
As he focused, his Mangekyo Sharingan instantly transformed into a purple Rinnegan. But unlike Madara's or the Sage's, his had six black tomoe slowly rotating within it, and in the center, a black circle spun as if it could swallow everything.
"Six tomoe? It seems my guess was right." The real Rinnegan wasn't awakened just by possessing its power, but by combining the power of both the Rinnegan and the Tenseigan. He was now sure of it. His Rinnegan was far stronger than Madara's. The six tomoe signified its perfection. He guessed he would need to absorb even more pupil power to evolve it to the nine-tomoe Rinnegan.
He couldn't wait to test its power. His control over gravity and repulsion was far greater than Madara's. While Madara could destroy a village, Kagami felt he could control the movement of planets. This power was far stronger than an ordinary Rinnegan or Tenseigan. He could also manipulate space and create Truth-Seeking Orbs. He stretched out his hand, and a huge Truth-Seeking Orb appeared, changing shape at his will, smoother and more powerful than the Yin-Yang Release he had learned on his own.
He then tested the ability to manipulate space. The space in front of him distorted, and a huge crater was flattened in an instant. "This ability is even more powerful than Kamui," he marveled. He could even forcibly tear space apart to enter a different dimension.
"Damn, I haven't even used the Rinnegan's unique ocular jutsu yet, and it's already this powerful. This is the power of the Tomoe Rinnegan." The difference between his new eyes and an ordinary Rinnegan was like heaven and earth. He began to impatiently check for his newly awakened ocular jutsu. After all, with such powerful basic abilities, the unique techniques must be incredible.
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