"Drip..."
"Drip..."
Drops of water fell from time to time, sending ripples spreading across the space before him. As the ripples collided, a bright fissure slowly emerged. Accompanied by the turbulent ripples spreading outward, it extended all the way into the darkness at the end of the dim yellow light.
At the same time, the Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams Diagram gradually lit up as well. Amid the colliding ripples, every line became incomparably clear.
"For the five thousand five hundred and seventy-second appearance, I still haven't figured out what method to use to open this Sealing Jutsu Formula."
Then, with the bright Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams reflected in his eyes, Taki Chiba—the primary concern of the three parties, the young man trapped in this Sealed Space whom the Konoha search-and-rescue ninja were worried about, whom Uchiha Nobuhiko was suspected of being about to burn to death by activating the Sealing Jutsu Formula, and whose predicament had left Kushina, Yukina, and Minato Namikaze nearly blank-minded, able only to shout that they were hiding it—spoke in a somewhat vacant voice.
A long time seemed to have passed again. He had long since become too lazy to count how much time had gone by, or to record how long it took for that inexplicable dripping sound to appear and bring forth this diagram and the Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams before him.
Now, all of this was meaningless.
During this long, drawn-out period, he had seen this Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams and the fissure more than five thousand times. By around the fiftieth time he saw them, he had already tried every method he could think of.
Naturally, there had been no results.
Over this period, Chiba had also studied the Yin-Yang Fish Eight Trigrams and the bright fissure that seemed to divide this