"Can I take off the bandages now?"
Three days later, at Senju Tobirama's residence, Renya asked expectantly.
With his recovery ability, he didn't need three full days of rest at all, but that old fellow Senju Tobirama kept insisting.
So he could only wait in anxious impatience for three days.
"You can."
At this moment, the room was already surrounded by a crowd that had come to watch the spectacle, and Shimura Danzō and the others held their breath, staring at Renya.
They wanted to see what the rumored Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan actually looked like.
With Senju Tobirama's permission, Renya yanked off the bandages wrapped around his eyes, revealing a pair of eerie Mangekyō Sharingan.
The appearance of the eyes hadn't changed; only the colors had become more vivid.
"Hahaha, ahahaha!"
Feeling an unprecedented fullness of ocular power flooding his eyes, as if it could never be exhausted, Renya couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh.
He hadn't expected the new power to be this strong.
He could finally, just like the second brat, use his eye abilities without restraint.
An old Uchiha Madara was nothing but someone who would have to submit before these new eyes.
Seeing Renya's arrogant expression, everyone knew the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan had no issues.
"Search for the Three-Tails with all your strength. We must discover the traces of the Three-Tails before Uchiha Madara!" Senju Tobirama issued the order again.
Even though Renya had obtained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, they could not afford to relax.
The most important thing now was to stop Madara from collecting all nine tailed beasts.
And Renya's Eternal Mangekyō merely provided a bit more assurance in stopping Madara.
But Renya did not think so at this moment.
He felt he could defeat Uchiha Madara himself and personally shatter that old man's Infinite Tsukuyomi dream.
Obviously, just like normal Uchiha clansmen, once one possessed great power, one's entire being tended to float away.
Yet he felt his power was terrifyingly strong, fully confident he could defeat Uchiha Madara.
Just as Madara had said, in the face of absolute power, any scheme was futile.
Now that he possessed the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, he did not need any scheme to win.
He could simply crush everything head-on with overwhelming strength.
"I know where the Three-Tails is…" Renya suddenly said.
Hearing this, everyone looked at him in shock, expressions full of disbelief.
"Renya, what did you say?"
Hiruzen thought he had misheard and subconsciously asked.
"I said, I know where the Three-Tails is." Renya explained to everyone. "I once forced the Three-Tails to sign a summoning contract. When it was revived, the summoning contract took effect again."
He had no intention of hiding anything and simply laid all his cards on the table.
Even knowing that White Zetsu was secretly watching, he didn't care at all…
He was deliberately letting White Zetsu know, then tell Uchiha Madara, so that the latter would personally come looking for him.
"Doesn't that mean you can directly summon the Three-Tails out?!"
Senju Tobirama's breathing became rapid—he hadn't expected Renya to have such a hidden trump card.
In that case, they only needed to summon the Three-Tails out and then kill it.
Uchiha Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan would be impossible to complete.
Everyone present breathed heavily, as if they could already see the scene of successfully stopping Uchiha Madara.
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and summon the Three-Tails and take it down!"
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Shimura Danzō urged Renya.
Even if Uchiha Madara had White Zetsu secretly watching them, he couldn't possibly rush over from his hiding place in time.
By the time he arrived, the Three-Tails would likely already have been blasted into a mist of blood.
"No rush. We wait for Uchiha Madara to come." Meeting the crowd's puzzled gazes, Renya explained,
"If we kill the Three-Tails now, it will only drive Uchiha Madara insane. At that time, if he disregards everything and slaughters them all, the losses wouldn't be worth it."
His concern was not unreasonable.
If Uchiha Madara learned that the Three-Tails had been killed, he would definitely go berserk and kill everyone present.
Although Renya was confident he could defeat Madara, he could not guarantee the safety of his companions.
If Madara dragged Senju Tobirama and the others to the grave with him, it would not be worth the price.
It was better to keep the Three-Tails and temporarily stabilize Uchiha Madara.
Hearing Renya's explanation, everyone understood he was thinking about their safety.
"In that case, let's move the battlefield outside the village, to avoid greater damage during the battle."
Senju Tobirama did not oppose Renya's plan; instead, he proposed relocating the battlefield.
Naturally, no one present objected.
After learning of Renya's plan, Senju Hashirama pulled Renya aside to a deserted place and lowered his voice.
"Renya, if you can defeat Madara, could you spare his life?"
He truly did not want his former friend to die tragically again.
"Of course, but if it's really impossible during battle, don't force yourself…"
Although Senju Hashirama did not want Uchiha Madara to die, he even less wanted his friend to realize a plan that could almost destroy the shinobi world.
He only hoped Renya would not kill his friend, provided the circumstances allowed it.
"Hashirama-san, I'll do my best."
Renya did not dare to make an outright promise, to avoid accidents like the last time.
Even though he now had great confidence in defeating Uchiha Madara, he could not be one hundred percent certain everything would go as imagined.
The actual situation would only be known when they truly crossed hands.
Moreover, he had never considered what would happen after Madara's plan failed.
From what he knew of Uchiha Madara, Madara was unlikely to willingly return to the village to live out his days.
Having his lifelong pursuit of peace in the shinobi world stopped by others—how could he possibly retire peacefully in the village?!
The probability that Madara would rather die than surrender was very high.
But no matter what, Renya would try his utmost.
He did not share his conjectures with Senju Hashirama—or rather, Senju Hashirama had probably already guessed as much.
The two had lived together day and night for decades; they naturally understood their dearest friend's personality very well.
They simply still held onto hope in their hearts and so had never said it aloud.
On Senju Tobirama's orders, the high-end combat power of Konoha all left the village.
They headed to a relatively vast area in the Land of Fire, designating it as the battlefield for the final decisive battle.
"Summoning Technique: Three-Tails!"
Renya formed hand seals with both hands, summoning the Three-Tails hidden in the deep sea.
The Three-Tails, which had been sleeping in the deep ocean, suddenly felt its surroundings change and instinctively opened its eyes.
What it saw was one of the two people it hated most in its life.
It was precisely the Uchiha who had once controlled it with the Sharingan and forced it to sign a summoning contract!
If not for him, it would not have been killed by Uchiha Madara.
"Beast, long time no see!"
Before the Three-Tails could react, Renya used the Mangekyō's genjutsu to control it.
Three-Tails: "???"
Realizing its body was out of its own control, the Three-Tails felt as if the sky had collapsed.
Ever since its revival, it had hidden in the deep sea, provoking no humans in the shinobi world.
Yet it was still summoned out.
Damn humans—I will never forgive you!
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