"Tell me."
Uchiha Nobuhiko's face did not ripple in the slightest as he listened to Chiba's somewhat absent-minded, somewhat insincere words. He merely spoke blandly.
"Tell you what?"
Chiba froze slightly at that. Uchiha Nobuhiko was clearly throwing the question back at him, but at this moment, he could not figure out what Uchiha Nobuhiko wanted him to say. The words slipped out of his mouth instinctively.
"Earlier, you asked me who I really was. Now that you've heard so much, who do you think I am?"
Hearing Chiba's completely genuine instinctive question, Uchiha Nobuhiko did not mind. He simply made his meaning clear.
Heard so much? Who did I think... he was?
At Uchiha Nobuhiko's elaboration, Chiba was taken aback again.
Could it be that after saying all that, he merely wanted to know who he was? Judging by the way he looked, he had probably been reborn through several lifetimes. What he had just described spanned the Warring States period, the era of the Second Hokage, and the era of the Third Hokage. And according to what he had said before, there could only be one transmigrator in the same era—a rule, or perhaps a convention. Nearly a century passed from the first transmigrator to the second, and after that Japanese female transmigrator died, Danzo adopted another transmigrator. That timeline had been continuous, with the next transmigrator taking over as soon as the last one died. Given that, he could not possibly have reincarnated only once. Even if every life had ended naturally, going by the average lifespan in the ninja world, he had probably gone through three to five lives.
But after being reborn three to five times, with memories from those lives and memories of frequent contact with transmigrators, he still had not figured out who—or