Answer... my question?
Uchiha Nobuhiko's words not only successfully cut Chiba off, but also blocked whatever he had been about to say next.
No...
No need to think any further. It was already over.
Yet after that brief daze, Chiba abandoned the plans and thoughts in his heart. He took a deep breath and slowly rose to his feet, standing level with Uchiha Nobuhiko before him, his lips pressing together lightly.
Judging from Uchiha Nobuhiko's expression, the talking phase was over.
Next, Uchiha Nobuhiko would bare his fangs.
Could it be that something I said or did just now, or something I was thinking, has already fulfilled the conditions for the Light Orb to be taken away? Or was it...
There was simply nothing left to talk about? Indeed, there seemed to be nothing more to discuss. As for transmigrators and Reincarnators, that was all there was to say.
There were some things that, even knowing he was aware of transmigrators, Chiba still could not say.
And Uchiha Nobuhiko clearly had other purposes, other secrets. As a Reincarnator, it seemed he could not speak of them either.
Yes...
There was nothing left to talk about!
Next came the reckoning! Or rather...
He's sending me on my way! After standing up, Chiba had already prepared himself. In this conversation, he had always been the fish on the chopping block, while the other party held the knife. When it began and when it ended had always been up to the other party. Now that he wanted to end it, it could only end.
At least he had bought some time. Though according to the conversion of time in this space, not much time should have passed outside—perhaps he had only delayed things by an instant—sometimes, an instant was enough.
At the very