Impossible...
This can't be... This can't be happening! How could he have woken up?
After having his Outsider Power taken away, he couldn't possibly... No, impossible! And not only had he awakened, he had grown even stronger! Even after losing his Outsider Power, he still possessed greater strength than before. I hadn't even noticed when he slammed me into the ground.
Impossible!
Leaving everything else aside, his improved Eight Gates technique should have relied heavily on the ultra-precise Chakra control granted by his Outsider Power. It had to be said that the Outsider Power made many otherwise impossible things possible. Yet now, after losing that power, Taki Chiba could still use that improved technique—and had even raised it to a higher level.
What I saw just now should have been the sixth gate of the Eight Gates, the Gate of View, opening. He already possesses Chakra approaching that of a Tailed Beast.
His speed and strength had both reached an inconceivable level.
Compared to before, he was practically a different person.
Impossible... Impossible... What exactly happened? At the very center of the dust cloud rising upward like a mushroom, Uchiha Nobuhiko remained embedded in the ground in a spread-eagled posture, staring blankly at the dust above. Though his face showed no expression, it seemed filled with disbelief and incomprehension.
He could not understand why Taki Chiba had awakened, much less why he had been able to further increase his strength after losing his greatest reliance, his Outsider Power.
That was completely impossible.
He had encountered countless Outsiders, but ever since he had seized the Outsider Power of the first one, not a single Outsider had ever awakened again. Until they died of old age, illness, or any number of other causes, none had ever regained consciousness.
What had happened to