Is that so...
So I failed.
In the end, was fate impossible to change? After a string of thoughts and muttered questions, Chiba calmed the emotions those thoughts had stirred within him. Looking at his hands—hands from before he had transmigrated, hands he had almost forgotten, without a single callus and practically fair-skinned—he pressed his lips together and suddenly fell silent.
Even so, now that things had come to this, there was no use dwelling on it.
Still, compared to reuniting with Kushina and the others in the Pure Land, living happily together in that Naruto World would have been better in the end.
He had even planned to make up for every regret from the original story. After all, when it came to reading preferences, he rather liked happy endings.
Had I been thinking too simply? This was not a transmigration novel where everything could be changed according to the readers' preferences—or the author's own preferences.
Yeah!
I had been thinking too simply. If fate could be changed so easily, if established history and the plotlines of the original work that so many people loved could be altered so easily, then those who sought light in this world full of darkness would be far too cheap! I had not only thought of things too simply—I had also underestimated this world far too much.
If it really could be changed that easily, merely because I knew the plot, merely because I could mobilize all of Konoha and use all of Konoha's strength to turn the gears of fate...
Then this world would be far too fragile.
Konoha's strength was indeed second to none in the entire shinobi world, but to the world, Konoha was merely one component.
Moreover, that component had always been driven by fate.
I had been wrong