Chapter 427: Hit by a Kotoamatsukami
The clone actually had this thought!
The moment she activated the Mangekyo Sharingan and mastered Kotoamatsukami, an idea suddenly popped up from the bottom of her heart:
If she cast Kotoamatsukami on the original body, making the original body take her as the main body, and treat the original body itself as a clone, what would happen?
Even, what if she turned the original body into her servant?
The success rate seemed quite high because the original body had no guard against her... so the probability of successfully casting this Kotoamatsukami was very high!
However, this thought eventually just passed through her mind with a laugh. She would never do such a thing because she was also Haruno Sakura, and Haruno Sakura was also her; the original body naturally knew her temperament. It was precisely because both possessed the same thinking mode and personality traits that the original body trusted her completely.
If it were someone with darker thoughts, it might not be the same. Even if it were a person who was extremely selfish, it wouldn't be strange for the clone to have thoughts of betraying the original body the moment it was created... Because the spirit of the clone resided in a real body, it possessed free will, and the degree of freedom was quite high, almost equivalent to a real person.
The True Clone Jutsu was such a dangerous ninjutsu.
The original body didn't think the clone would harm her, but she was still startled by the clone's bold words.
"Try Kotoamatsukami!" The clone said with a giggle, "It's not like you'll get pregnant!"
"Pregnant your head! Tsk... what do you want to do?" The original body's mouth twitched, seeming to sense some kind of bad taste from the clone.
Suddenly had a bad premonition.
"If you don't cast it personally once, it's impossible to understand the ninjutsu Kotoamatsukami." She said seriously, "Although the effect of Kotoamatsukami is powerful, the restrictions are estimated to be strict. I plan to control the output of pupil power and try it with the lowest output."
"Anyway, we can't find other test subjects to experiment on, so you can only be the guinea pig."
"Alright," the original body bit the bullet and stepped forward, "No funny business, especially strange orders or something..."
"I'm very serious..." The clone smiled, while gathering pupil power and converting it into genjutsu through the Mangekyo Sharingan, secretly adding two words in her heart—
Yeah right.
"Mangekyo Secret Technique: Kotoamatsukami!"
The preparation time for the ninjutsu was extremely short.
In almost the blink of an eye, the pupil power was converted into genjutsu. Just as Haruno Sakura sensed the fluctuation of chakra, in a daze, she was hit by Kotoamatsukami.
Even with her genjutsu resistance and special soul constitution, she couldn't withstand the power of Kotoamatsukami. After a moment of trance, the original body began to act according to the instructions in the genjutsu—
Started taking off her clothes on her own accord.
Only when her underwear was stripped down to her ankles did the original body react with a face full of shame and anger: "You guy, what kind of order did you give with Kotoamatsukami!"
"Take off your clothes for me to wear!" She answered as a matter of course, while putting on the pants, "Our laboratory is too cold. Original body, you possess thick skin and flesh so you don't feel it, but I am a delicate newborn body, already frozen stiff!"
"But you woke up so quickly; Kotoamatsukami doesn't seem as invincible as advertised."
Back to business, the angry original body also put aside the thought of settling accounts with her and said seriously: "Yes, although it did affect me at the beginning, I eventually broke free from the control of the genjutsu..."
"But the effect is already quite amazing. If this were on the battlefield, we would be dead long ago." The clone poked her chin with her index finger and said distressedly, "And this is just Kotoamatsukami with the lowest output. If the pupil power consumption is maximized to cast it to the limit—"
"The effect of Kotoamatsukami changing the will would probably become permanent." Haruno Sakura took over her words and said solemnly.
That's why Uchiha Itachi treated Kotoamatsukami as the final insurance. If she hadn't experienced it personally, Haruno Sakura wouldn't believe there was a ninjutsu with such a strong effect.
"But I won't fall for this genjutsu again." The original body said with a confident smile, "I have memorized the unique pupil power fluctuation of the Mangekyo."
"Hehe. The only pair of Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan in the world is in your hands, of course you won't fall for it again..." The clone muttered secretly, mocking herself, and added, "And the flaws of Kotoamatsukami are also obvious. The cooldown time of the jutsu is terribly long."
"In short, mana cost, CD (cooldown), casting pre-cast and back-swing, and other data are all here." She pointed to her head and said, "Is there anything else to test?"
Haruno Sakura shook her head.
"I originally wanted to see if Shisui's Mangekyo had other abilities, but forget it."
According to the records of the Uchiha clan, most Mangekyo possess more than one ability, and generally, the left and right eyes have different abilities, but Shisui's Sharingan is strange, both left and right eyes are Kotoamatsukami... Haruno Sakura wanted to explore deeper, but the clone was already a bit tired. Forcibly using such a big move was a bit too much burden for a clone with limited power.
And she was frozen enough.
"Come back."
Haruno Sakura released the Clone Jutsu, resealed the clone into the scroll, and then closed her eyes to carefully sort out the information transmitted back by the clone.
An important reason why Kotoamatsukami was not used on a large scale was that its cooldown time was too long. Just one shot of Kotoamatsukami, which lasted less than a few minutes, consumed a large amount of pupil power. Moreover, judging from the degree of eye fatigue, it would take months to recover. If a permanent Kotoamatsukami was cast, the consumption of pupil power would be exaggeratedly large, and the cooldown time would climb to the magnitude of years!
In this case, the value of Kotoamatsukami becomes somewhat tasteless. Using it for combat is too wasteful; if used to change someone's will, it can only be used two or three times in a lifetime.
Perhaps Danzo would know more information about Kotoamatsukami? After all, he has possessed Shisui's Mangekyo for so many years.
This thought suddenly popped into Haruno Sakura's mind. She shook her head: "I finally understand why Danzo can always make a comeback."
Because this old scum is sometimes really useful!
After packing up the things in the laboratory, Haruno Sakura completely froze the base, returned along the underground river, and went back to Konoha.
For the next few days, she would visit the underground base from time to time.
Using her clone to familiarize herself with the power of the Sharingan.
However, the Mangekyo was never opened again because the only ability, Kotoamatsukami, had entered a long cooldown time. And for an imperfect Mangekyo, every opening would permanently reduce the vision of the Sharingan—even if doing nothing—because maintaining the Mangekyo itself was already a burden.
Apart from that, the rest of her energy was focused on preparing the three children for the Chunin Exams and her own upcoming Senjutsu training.
The time in June passed quietly like flowing water. Seemingly in the blink of an eye, the midsummer July arrived.
July 1st.
The time for the first stage of the Chunin Exams.
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