Wouldn't it be too hasty to touch it?
Danger? Hearing the aged voice that had abruptly rung out in the darkness, Chiba's outstretched hand paused, stopping a fraction of an inch from the white flame-like glow swirling over the Light Orb's surface.
And this was the instinctive thought that rose in his mind.
No! That's not right! That isn't the issue!
It's not that sentence! Then, in merely a tenth of a second, he abruptly looked ahead of him—toward the darkness beyond the pure white light on the other side of the Light Orb.
The voice had come from that direction.
"Who are you?"
Once his gaze settled, Chiba asked warily.
His eyes did not penetrate the darkness. Although he had turned to look in that direction, he saw nothing but darkness.
There's someone here?
Why is there someone else in another room hidden within my Sealed Space? And judging by the voice, this person must be quite old. There was even a faint sense of authority to it.
It wasn't anyone he knew, either.
It probably wasn't some manifestation of something within his mind.
Then who could it be?
At that moment, the most preliminary deductions flashed through his mind.
He had never heard this voice before. Among the people he had encountered, judging from the aged quality of the voice, it could only belong to someone as old as the Third Hokage or Yagura Bi. Yet this voice bore no resemblance to any of those elderly figures.
In other words, it was not anyone he knew.
This was a space within the Sealed Space. Strictly speaking, it was also part of his spiritual world. Moreover, this place held what was suspected to be a second Transmigration Benefit, and it was very possible that it contained things absent from