dmims What is the price to pay in Chapter 189?
What is the price to pay in Chapter 189?
"I want...I want to stay with Banban..." Yan Yi used all her strength to raise her hand and grab Izuna's collar, her eyes almost closed.
Upon hearing this, Izuna's expression showed a hint of pain, but he still nodded and carried Yan Yi to Itama's side.
Momoka quickly used medical ninjutsu to treat Yan Yi, but Tobirama stopped her with a wave of his hand.
"Let me do it... You should rest too..." Tobirama gently knelt down and placed his hand on Yan Yi's wound, where a faint green light began to appear.
Yan Yi had no mind to think about anything else at this moment. He just wanted to be closer to the boardroom, even if it was just a little closer... The boy lay quietly on the ground. His special black and white hair, which he had styled neatly when he left home in the morning, was now covered with dust and bloodstains, and even the luster had disappeared.
Yan Yi reached out and grasped the already cold wrist, her expression indescribable. Perhaps it was sadness? Perhaps it was listlessness...
This is the person I love most... the person I promised to spend my life with, why... did she die here...? It's all my fault, I wasn't strong enough, I didn't protect you.
A trace of pain and relief lingered on Itama's expression. The blood on his body had long since congealed, and no warm blood oozed from his wounds; life... that word had completely vanished.
Yan Yi knew that Itama was truly, completely dead. Was this death? So real, so close... so suffocating.
No matter how much you call out, it will never reach the ears of the deceased.
In this era, there was no Rinnegan, no Rinne Rebirth, and not even the Impure World Reincarnation; even his own brother Tobirama hadn't researched it at all...
But... how can I let you leave me like this? Why do we have to part? I don't want this...
Yan Yi stared at the gray sky, frantically searching his mind for a way to bring Itama back to his side.
The air was completely silent; no one made a sound, as if in mourning. But suddenly, Yan Yi called out in a hoarse voice...
"Second brother... Tobirama-nii, come closer."
After saying this, she turned to look at the wooden plank lying next to her. Her tears stopped flowing and instead turned into a strong determination and resolve.
Izuna paused for a moment, then pulled Yan Yi's head onto his lap. Tobirama also stopped using chakra and moved closer.
Seeing his second brother's worry and sorrow, seeing Tobirama's pain and repression, and seeing Momoka's weak and pale face, Yan Yi's eyes flickered with a complex light.
Yan Yi slowly began to speak, "My... Mangekyou Sharingan has two abilities..."
Tobirama was startled when he heard the first sentence, and then hesitated to speak. He didn't know why Yan Yi suddenly brought this up, but he listened quietly anyway.
Yan Yi gently raised her hand and touched her left eye. In that instant, the Mangekyou Sharingan was forcibly activated once again.
"Yan Yi, what are you doing! Stop! You can't do this!" Izuna was startled and quickly stopped him, afraid that Yan Yi would continue to overdraw his energy, and then...
Yan Yi gently shook his head and continued to explain, "It's alright, Second Brother... My left eye, the ability I had during the battle just now... is called 'Ten Directions.' It's simple... it allows me to briefly glimpse... the future, and recreate past events in the present..."
"!!"
Tobirama and Izuna were both startled. "Ten Directions? Peeping...at the future? What...does this mean?"
Speaking of the battle just now... Yan Yi did indeed inexplicably launch an attack on thin air, which means that his attack, enhanced by his eye technique, came from the past to... the present?
Is this... really possible?
"The principle is very simple. In fact, once you know the secret of this eye technique, it's not difficult to break it." Yan Yi shook his head and stopped explaining his left eye.
He struggled for a moment, trying to sit up. Izuna could feel the determination in Yan Yi, so she had no choice but to give him some support and help him sit up slowly.
Yan Yi took a deep breath, her expression somewhat wistful, and said, "That's not the point... my right eye... I... don't quite understand what it means yet, but... perhaps..."
"What can I do?" Tobirama's heart began to race, and he pressed for an answer.
Yan Yi glanced at his second brother Izuna, then at Tobirama, then at Momoka, and finally his gaze settled on Itama.
"It can bring Banban... back to life."
"Impossible!" Tobirama blurted out, his expression full of incomprehension.
Izuna, too, looked incredulous, her expression tinged with pain and heartache.
"Yan Yi... I know you're in pain losing Itama... but..."
Before Izuna could finish speaking, Yan Yi interrupted him, saying, "No, you might not understand, because I'm the same way..."
"But this eye technique is very special. It roughly means that it can reproduce a person's entire life, information, memories, experiences, including all traces of their existence in this world and this universe, and the causes and effects they have caused. It's roughly like... I should be able to revive the Banban in my memory."
"This eye technique is called... Alaya-vijnana." Yan Yi's expression was serious, yet tinged with confusion, but he still tried to explain clearly.
He didn't know why his right eye had developed such a pupil technique. Was this an opportunity given to him by God?
"This is impossible... Once an event has occurred, how can it be reversed? How can something that has already happened be turned back using eye techniques? This doesn't make sense..."
Tobirama didn't believe it, because what Yan Yi said was simply too... outrageous, it didn't conform to the laws of the world or the laws of the universe.
If that's possible... then wouldn't the law of causality be invalid for Yan Yi?
If being attacked leads to injury, bleeding, and death, then the attack is the cause, and the injury, bleeding, and death are the effects; death occurs because of the attack. But what if this law doesn't apply? Wouldn't that mean...?
"It's not as complicated or as powerful as you think... It's a one-time thing." Yan Yi shook his head, subtly placing his hand on the board's chest...
Simply put, think of it as a chance to be resurrected...
Yan Yi quietly activated his pupil technique, and the pattern in his right eye slowly rotated. Then... a strong sense of blurring immediately enveloped the group.
No, perhaps it should be said that the entire battlefield where the battle just took place should be surrounded.
"This is...?"
Tobirama's heart skipped a beat as he saw the change in his surroundings, and a sense of déjà vu, as if he were observing things through a shattered mirror, came to mind.
Izuna looked worried and couldn't help but ask, "Yan Yi... can it only be used once? Are you... using it now?"
Yan Yi didn't reply. Instead, she closed her eyes and her thoughts began to sink... as if she were gradually drifting away from this world.
"Alaya-vijnana..."
As the eye technique was activated, the surrounding environment became increasingly blurry and fragmented. Tobirama even saw the strange sight of the sky below his feet and the earth above his head.
The sudden appearance of a multitude of scenes instantly overwhelmed the surrounding air; the images of the battle the three had just encountered flashed past them like a slideshow. Scene after scene of fighting, scene after scene of injuries...
"Banban...you are so deep in my memory...I remember every day, every hour, every minute...every second we spent together."
Yan Yi's body began to become translucent, and the Sharingan in his eyes slowly rotated, as if containing a starry sky-like depth.
Seeing the dramatic changes around him, coupled with Yan Yi's increasingly faint aura, Izuna panicked.
"Yan Yi...? What are you doing...?" In Izuna's perception, Yan Yi was clearly sitting right in front of him, but his sense of Yan Yi was growing weaker and weaker...
Yan Yi still did not answer, his eyes seemed unfocused, as if he had entered a magical spiritual world.
The surrounding scenery began to change, and the abnormal scene slowly began to shrink, as if everything was gradually returning to normal.
Finally, after a few minutes, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Yan Yi? Is this... finished? But..." Tobirama asked, frowning.
In his perception, nothing around him had changed. If there was any change, it was that Yan Yi's presence seemed to have diminished... It was the kind of change where he couldn't perceive Yan Yi's presence as clearly and distinctly as before.
The room lying on the ground remained unchanged, but its senses began to become blurred.
"Don't worry, the eye technique has been activated... Banban... will come back..." Yan Yi looked down at Banban's body, his expression revealing neither joy nor sorrow.
Yan Yi had one more thing she didn't say, but silently swallowed it down... As long as it can bring Itama back to life, what does it matter if she has to pay a small price? It's all worth it.