Chapter 92: Menma's Physical Body and Eyes
Click~
In a daze, Menma seemed to hear something shatter.
"Gurgle gurgle!!"
The Menma body in the nutrient tank abruptly opened its eyes, a red light flashing within them.
The bulging meridians on his body also gradually subsided, his outward appearance slowly returning to normal.
"Huh!"
Nonō outside watched, her face showing surprise.
Suppressing the surprise in her heart, she quickly observed the monitoring instrument.
"Although the values are still outrageous, all bodily functions have gradually stabilized."
Nonō let out a long breath, but when she looked up at Menma,
The two happened to meet eyes.
In that instant, Nonō looked as if she had seen something terrifying, freezing on the spot, stunned.
But after only two or three seconds, as if awakening from a dream, her expression became animated.
Then her legs gave out, and she directly knelt on the ground.
"Huff huff huff! That... what was that??"
Nonō's eyes widened, her chest heaving violently as she gasped for breath.
Just now, in Menma's eyes, she had seen...
Bang!
Crash!
The nutrient tank suddenly exploded, fine glass fragments scattering across the floor.
Menma retracted his unharmed fist and walked out of the shattered nutrient tank.
Looking down at his own physical body, a smile touched the corners of his lips.
"No wonder Uchiha Madara would rather give up the Edo Tensei body with its infinite chakra, and instead use the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to restore his physical body."
The feeling of a physical body is completely different from a chakra clone!
This feeling... is almost comparable to the thrill of coming from the Tsukuyomi World to the real world back then!
But looking down, he saw Nonō collapsed on the floor, face full of fear.
"What's wrong with you?"
He frowned, asking somewhat puzzledly.
His voice was somewhat deep and hoarse, clearly not yet accustomed to making sound with vocal cords.
Nonō belatedly looked up.
Her first reaction was to look at Menma's eyes.
"Your eyes..."
She was just about to say something.
But her gaze involuntarily shifted downwards, and she saw something that hurt her eyes.
Nonō first opened her mouth slightly in shock, forming an 'O' shape.
Realizing, she then covered her flushed red face, on the verge of tears.
"You-you-you!!"
She pointed at Menma, stammering for a long time, but ultimately couldn't get a coherent sentence out.
Hooo~
A cool breeze blew past. The puzzled Menma couldn't help but shiver.
"Huh? Why does it feel a bit... ch-chilly..."
In an instant, Menma reacted, his body jolting, face flushing with embarrassment.
Hiss!!
It was always a chakra body before! Now suddenly a physical body, I didn't even realize!!
Menma flusteredly wrapped himself in a nearby white blanket.
The atmosphere instantly became somewhat silent and awkward.
"Ahem! Open your eyes."
Menma hesitated for a moment, then said, feigning calmness: "You're a medical ninja. Why are you making such a big fuss?"
As he spoke, Menma himself felt somewhat annoyed.
Is it because I have a physical body now, so I've become too complacent?
How could I forget even something like this?
Hooo~
Menma let out a long breath, suppressing the chaotic emotions in his heart.
He no longer looked at Nonō's expression, turning instead to find a mirror.
"This..."
But seeing his own face in the mirror, Menma instantly froze on the spot.
"Golden hair... and... a Sharingan with black sclera and red tomoe?"
Looking at his right eye in the mirror – the pupil black as ink, with three scarlet tomoe slowly spinning within.
The smile on Menma's face gradually faded, his brow furrowing tightly.
Could some mutation have occurred?
But as he began to try and sense the pupil power in his eye,
The baleful aura that had always been suppressed deep within his soul suddenly surged into his mind.
Menma met his own gaze in the mirror, seeming to see a familiar yet strange figure.
"So this is what Nonō saw?"
In Menma's field of vision,
Scarlet blood stained the entire land; black, severed limbs were piled into a mountain of corpses.
Everything in sight was presented in black and red, and even a thick smell of blood seemed to faintly enter his nasal cavity.
And upon that sea of blood and mountain of corpses, that figure sat.
Resting its chin on one hand, it looked at Menma with great interest.
"Hmph!"
Menma's eyes turned cold. With a light snort, the illusion before him shattered and dissipated.
As that baleful aura was once again suppressed by him deep within his heart,
Menma's golden hair underwent a change.
Black started spreading from the hair roots, eventually turning completely back to black hair.
Simultaneously, the Yin Release power within his body began to gather towards his head.
The three-tomoe Sharingan in his right eye also began to show minute changes.
Gradually changing from the original black to the same deep blue as his left eye.
But the color of the three scarlet tomoe became even deeper.
The shape of the tomoe also showed slight distortions; the ends of the tomoe seemed to gradually extend, almost about to touch the pupil.
But for some reason, this change was very slow, as if blocked by something, consistently unable to break through.
"Is this... a trend towards evolving the Mangekyō Sharingan?"
Menma touched his eye socket, feeling the powerful pupil power in his right eye.
Although it felt like the pupil power wasn't comparable to Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan,
But one must know, Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan wasn't freshly awakened.
Shisui could not only use the second form of Susanoo with one eye, but could even use "Yasaka Magatama" and a divine weapon shaped like a drill.
Comparing this, Menma felt his right eye was only one step away from awakening the Mangekyō.
Hooo...
Exhaling a turbid breath, Menma said with some regret: "Trying to leap to Mangekyō Sharingan in one step really isn't that simple."
However, an eye that reflects the heart, hmm?
Wonder what the right eye's Mangekyō pupil technique will be. Truly curious.
And this empty left eye, as well as the yet-to-be-awakened Sage Body...
Menma expressionlessly picked up a nearby scalpel.
Swish!!
With a flash of cold light, a cut appeared on his arm, blood slowly flowing out.
But in just a few seconds, the wound had already scabbed over, even emitting a barely audible sizzling sound, and finally healed completely.
If not for the blood, one wouldn't even see a trace of injury.
"Such powerful life force, yet I haven't awakened the Sage Body?"
Thinking again of a certain classic example of a Sage Body, a question suddenly arose in Menma's heart.
"With my current life force, as long as vital organs like the heart aren't harmed, even severe injuries can gradually recover."
If that's the case, then Senju Hashirama, who possessed a Sage Body, wanting to commit suicide with a kunai before Uchiha Madara...
Was that guy serious?
Also, how exactly did Senju Hashirama die?
Could it be because Madara stole his flesh and blood, or even his Ashura chakra, that ultimately led to his death?
"If that's the case, then my plan will be difficult to implement."
Just as Menma felt somewhat troubled,
"Lord Master..."
Nonō had already composed herself by now and stood behind Menma.
Seeing him snap back to reality, Nonō bowed slightly: "I lost my composure just now. My deepest apologies."
There were two reasons for her losing composure earlier.
One, because life in the Kurama clan was too peaceful, causing her to involuntarily release her feminine nature.
And the other reason...
Lord Master... truly... is simply too manly...
Thinking of a certain frightening thing,
Nonō's face flushed slightly again, but worried about being discovered by the Lord Master, she quickly lowered her head even further.
"Never mind..."
Menma's eye twitched. As he spoke, he once again pulled the blanket tighter around himself.
Clearly a medical ninja plus intelligence operative. It's not like she hasn't seen patients before; probably often eavesdropped too.
Why make such a big fuss now?
"You head back first. Your help won't be needed for what comes next."
Menma shook his head, saying calmly: "The illusion you saw just now might cause spiritual damage. Remember to go back and rest more, recuperate your spirit."
"Yes, Lord Master."
Nonō replied in a low voice, then glanced sideways at the fusion liquid nearby.
Finally, after hesitating for a moment, she still turned and left.
Click!
After Nonō left the laboratory,
Menma then turned and put away the remaining fusion liquid nearby.
Menma naturally noticed Nonō's gaze just now and understood her unspoken request.
"Wants Yakushi Kabuto to be injected too? Unfortunately, now is not the time."
Yakushi Kabuto is currently lurking within Akatsuki and beside Orochimaru.
If anything abnormal occurs, it would be easy for him to be completely exploited and disposed of.
Moreover, Yakushi Kabuto's talent lies not in Kekkei Genkai, but in Sage Art.
"Chakra was brought by the Ōtsutsuki clan. Natural energy is the power system native to the ninja world."
Natural energy is omnipresent in this world, so Sage Art, which can utilize natural energy – Menma must master it.
And his placing Kabuto beside Orochimaru was precisely to find an opportunity to obtain the Ryūchi Cave summoning contract, as well as research data concerning cursed seals.
That guy Orochimaru's interests, though disgusting, he truly is a genius.
Relying on Jūgo's incomplete Sage Transformation, he actually managed to research something like the Cursed Seal, an artificial Sage Mode.
"Presumably, with Kabuto's talent, learning Sage Art won't be a problem. But should I have him learn Ryūchi Cave's Sage Art?"
Menma frowned, then quickly abandoned the thought.
"It should be possible to glimpse the secrets of natural energy through the Cursed Seal. Best not to learn the Sage Modes of the Three Great Sage Regions."
Menma pondered while re-strapping Uchiha Shin to the operating table.
The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku, the Slug Sage, the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave, and below them, the Three Great Snake Princesses, Shima, Fukasaku...
These guys, ultimately, are just animals capable of utilizing natural energy.
Since they can use Sage Art, then Menma, as a human who grasps core technology and core ideology, has no reason why he can't.
Besides, Menma had always been wary of that eccentric, muttering Great Toad Sage.
After all, it was he who guided the Hagoromo and Hamura brothers to seal Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
Then used some incomprehensible language to guide Jiraiya to search the ninja world for the Child of Destiny.
"Do those beasts think they are chess players? Actually entrusting the fate of the entire ninja world to a single person..."
Menma narrowed his eyes, a smile appearing on his lips.
"Truly... even more disgusting than the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
(End of Chapter)
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