"Do you believe now that I want to end all this peacefully?"
Listening to the spirit-body youth before him, whose expression seemed to be growing increasingly indistinct, Uchiha Nobuhiko slowly closed his eyes, concealing the weariness within them. After letting out a breath, he slowly opened them again.
Then he spoke.
"..."
Hearing this, Chiba's face grew ever more indistinct beneath the dimmed light as the source of illumination lowered. Yet he said nothing and merely slowly sat down.
If it's as I think, then this Uchiha Nobuhiko...
Judging from how he now seemed prepared to lay everything out "peacefully," he must have concluded that I was undoubtedly going to die. Otherwise, there was no way he would reveal such important information.
The only reason he would reveal it to me now was because I was certain to die. There was no other possibility.
Besides, there was no harm in listening for now.
Based on past experience, time flowed differently in the Dark Space and this Sealed Space than it did outside. It hadn't felt like I had spent long in the Dark Space, yet half a year had passed in the outside world. For the Dark Space, a single instant meant a long time outside.
As for this Sealed Space, I felt as though I had been here for quite some time, but only an instant had passed outside. Here, a long time was merely an instant in the outside world.
In other words, no matter how long I stayed here, not much time might pass outside. No matter how much time I spent here, the time outside would definitely be far less than the time within.
And if I dragged things out here and kept Uchiha Nobuhiko's pupil-power incarnation here, then he would have to keep continuously supplying