How did you know... that someone intended to harm the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?
Faced with this most unexpected question, Chiba's breathing nearly stopped. His gaze fixed on Uchiha Nobuhiko's pupils before narrowing slightly.
How did he know...
Of course, it was because of the original plot! Of course, it was because he had long known that the Nine-Tails' Rampage would occur!
But how could he possibly answer that?
Tell him he was a transmigrator, and that their world was merely the plot of a manga from his original world? Setting aside whether he was willing to say it, would Uchiha Nobuhiko before him even believe it? And if he did, how would he react? After all, as someone born and raised in the Naruto World, what consequences would arise when he learned that the world he lived in was nothing more than a manga made for others' entertainment, that all the suffering he had endured was merely entertainment for someone else? Chiba could not imagine it.
After all, Uchiha Nobuhiko before him already possessed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. No matter how ruthless, cold-blooded, or despicable he was, the pain he had experienced when awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan—the immense emotional upheaval—was utterly real. The pain he had felt was utterly real.
He might even have suffered tremendous emotional turmoil when he first awakened his tomoe Sharingan, falling into darkness and killing his best friend before gouging out his own younger brother's eyes.
Chiba simply could not predict what would happen if his identity as a transmigrator were exposed. No matter the circumstances, he could never reveal it. Not now, under any circumstances.
But if he did not say that, then what could he say? An Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was not so easily fooled! And although Uchiha Nobuhiko had been acting smug and