My... voice?
Just like that time?
Almost instantly, the despair spreading through Chiba's heart vanished. All of his attention fell on that voice, identical to his own.
"What if those things disappeared?"
"Then I will destroy this boring world."
Then, in that instant when his attention shifted, those two sentences came again in fragments. Compared to the first time, the voice was much clearer this time.
Chiba heard that sentence perfectly clearly.
Destroy the world?
Why destroy the world?
What had disappeared?
Although he had heard those two sentences before, Chiba still felt a wave of confusion.
Originally, those words—things disappearing, destroying the world—had nothing to do with him. If that voice had not sounded exactly like his own aside from being colder, more vicious, and more rigid, he would not have cared at all.
Destroying the world?
To him, it was not some incredible feat. If he wanted to, destroying the world was not impossible. It would merely take time.
But that voice truly was his voice, and he had never said anything like that.
This Sealed Space...
What exactly was so strange about it? What required the Sealing Jutsu of the Six Paths Era to seal it away? What kind of power was it?
What kind of power required a Sealing Jutsu far beyond one used to seal tailed beasts? And why would that power speak in my voice?
Could it be...
What was sealed inside...
Was me?
Then, after that confusion, a string of thoughts quietly surfaced.
If what was sealed inside was me, then what was the current me? As those thoughts arose one after another, Chiba frowned. Without realizing it, he pressed himself against the great door and stood up, his entire focus instantly fixed on the door as he tried to hear more.
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