Uchiha Madara stopped walking and once again turned back to look at Renya, whose face was covered in blood.
"Kid, are you still not giving up?"
He didn't understand what this kid's long-held belief actually was.
Even knowing he was no match, he still stepped out to block him.
"I said it before, I will stop you from carrying out the 'Eye of the Moon' plan and let you go back to the village to retire in peace."
Renya's gaze was firm, not joking at all.
"But now, I might have to break my word…"
Madara was too strong; he couldn't be defeated in a normal fight.
He could only use the power of his right eye and, in the moment Madara couldn't use the Rinnegan, use a killing move to take him down.
Sorry, Hashirama-san.
"Hahahaha!"
Uchiha Madara was amused by Renya's naïve expression and couldn't help but laugh up toward the sky.
Those words were naïve just like Hashirama's.
"In the current shinobi world, no one can stop me from carrying out my plan. The Mangekyō Sharingan you're so proud of is nothing."
His eyes had already gone beyond the realm of ordinary Sharingan, stepping into a far stronger domain.
The Rinnegan was not something a mere Mangekyō could compare to.
What's more, this kid's eyes weren't even Eternal Mangekyō, so where did his confidence to oppose Madara come from?
"It seems I've been too merciful, letting you develop the illusion that you can match me."
Uchiha Madara's gaze turned slightly cold as he quietly stared at the Renya before him.
"In that case, just stay here and wait for the day my plan succeeds."
He wouldn't kill Renya—at most, seriously injure him so he had no power to resist.
Before the words were finished, he simultaneously controlled four shadows to launch an attack.
Renya suddenly clutched his left eye. His right eye emitted a scarlet glow, and a line of bloody tears instantly gushed from the socket.
"Hakuri!"
The right eye's dōjutsu possessed the ability to forcibly strip away the target's attributes. Up until now, this was the second time he had used his right eye.
Temporarily deprive the Rinnegan of its abilities!
At the very instant he activated the right eye's dōjutsu, he only felt the ocular power in his right eye frantically disappear. Blood flooded his eye, and he immediately lost sight.
At the same time, Uchiha Madara suddenly discovered that the four shadows he had sent out vanished without warning.
And his control over the Rinnegan disappeared as well.
He was unable to use any ability of his eyes.
"Is this a Mangekyō dōjutsu?"
Uchiha Madara showed surprise, but soon collected his expression.
He naturally knew Renya's right eye dōjutsu could temporarily strip others of their attributes; he hadn't expected it to be effective against the Rinnegan as well.
"However, with your meager ocular power, how long can you really hold out?"
According to Madara's estimation, Renya's technique couldn't last very long—he only needed to stall for a bit.
"Now!"
Renya drew the katana stuck in the ground and slashed toward Uchiha Madara.
Right now Madara couldn't use the Rinnegan's power—this was his weakest moment.
He only needed to cut him down, and everything would be over.
But because Renya used the right eye's ability, his mental strength suffered severe aftereffects.
Coupled with the injuries he had already sustained, it was still difficult to compete with Uchiha Madara.
Senju Tobirama saw this and immediately dragged his heavily injured body into the battle.
Unfortunately, both of them were like spent arrows; they simply weren't Madara's match.
"In your condition, even if I don't use the Rinnegan, the two of you still aren't opponents!"
Uchiha Madara seized the opportunity, swung back with a punch to Senju Tobirama's face, and then turned sideways to kick Renya in the chest.
The two, already at their limits, were sent flying by the immense force.
The entire process didn't even take a minute.
Renya lay on the ground, staring blankly up at the sky.
After using "Hakuri," his right eye had completely lost vision.
If he had known this, he should have used his right eye's ability at the very start of the fight.
In his severely injured state now, it was too late to use his eye's power again.
Sometimes thinking about too many things makes you hesitate, leading to ultimate failure.
If he had started out with the resolve to kill Madara-sama, things would never have developed to this irreparable point.
"Kid, I know you want to change everything, but without great strength, nothing can be changed."
Uchiha Madara looked down coldly at Renya lying on the ground and spoke.
He didn't know what Renya wanted, but to him now, it no longer mattered.
The "Eye of the Moon" plan was about to be realized, and the shinobi world would soon see true peace.
"The dream you cannot realize, I can help you fulfill it within Infinite Tsukuyomi!"
"Now please lie here and stop making pointless resistance."
Uchiha Madara said this and headed toward the Senju clan grounds.
Before leaving, he condensed two black rods in his left and right hands and thrust them into the arms of Renya and Senju Tobirama, pinning them firmly to the ground.
He did not choose to kill the two of them but left them their lives.
Perhaps he wanted those who opposed him to personally witness the day the shinobi world reached peace.
When the right eye's Hakuri finished stripping the Rinnegan's power, Madara casually flicked away the Konoha shinobi trying to stop him.
"Kid, are you alright?"
Senju Tobirama pulled out the black rod lodged in his arm, covered his injured arm, and walked with difficulty to Renya.
Uchiha Madara's power far exceeded imagination; Konoha might really be unable to stop him.
Could it be that they would truly have to let him succeed?
"I'm fine."
Renya pulled out the black rod and sat up from the ground. There wasn't the despair on his face Tobirama had imagined.
"Let's allow him to take away part of the Nine-Tails' chakra."
"Kid, are you planning to give up?"
Senju Tobirama's expression was complicated; he understood Renya's feelings.
Madara was too strong—even if they fought with everything, they couldn't win.
"I haven't given up. Isn't there still one tailed beast that hasn't been captured?" Renya looked at Senju Tobirama and smiled.
"Things aren't as bad as we imagined. We still have one last chance to stop him!"
Senju Tobirama silently nodded.
At this point, that was all they could do.
Supporting each other, the two headed toward the Senju clan grounds, seeing countless Konoha shinobi lying on the ground along the way.
Fortunately, Uchiha Madara didn't seem intent on total slaughter, and since those present were all jōnin-level, most were heavily injured and down.
At this moment, medical shinobi had already begun treatment.
Tsunade moved among the wounded, using Katsuyu to heal the severely injured shinobi.
Watching this scene, Renya sighed helplessly in his heart.
Madara's strength was unreasonable, but fortunately the Three-Tails had not fallen into his hands.
The reason he agreed to let Uchiha Madara take part of the Nine-Tails' chakra was not because he had no other options.
Of course, that was part of it as well.
But the main reason was that he knew the Three-Tails had already been revived.
Renya had once forced a summoning contract with the Three-Tails, and he had thought that with the Three-Tails' death, the summoning contract would disappear.
But a few days ago, he suddenly sensed the connection to the Three-Tails again.
This meant the Three-Tails had been revived, and the summoning contract was still valid!
As long as he waited for Uchiha Madara to leave, he could summon the Three-Tails and then directly kill it.
Without the Three-Tails, the "Eye of the Moon" plan would never be realized.
But he didn't tell anyone about this—not because he was deliberately hiding it, but because he worried that if he spoke, White Zetsu would find out.
He couldn't guarantee whether a White Zetsu had been watching him all along.
Words like this were best left unsaid at all!