This isn't how I should be thinking!
The Sage of Six Paths deliberately withheld certain crucial things, pushed some matters back onto me, and provided ambiguous information. That didn't necessarily mean he had good intentions! Perhaps he had harbored malicious intent from the very beginning. Because he understood me, he might have deliberately said things that would interest me, then used them to lure me into a point of no return. That was entirely possible! Besides, the Sage of Six Paths had said that he had been watching me through the door. It was perfectly normal for him to understand me.
With his intelligence, he could definitely figure out what kind of person I was—or rather, how I thought.
So he could absolutely use my thought patterns to lure me step by step.
And in fact, he had succeeded. He had successfully made me push open this door and enter the world beyond it.
Then why had I assumed from the beginning that the Sage of Six Paths was on my side? Why hadn't I followed my usual way of thinking and considered the worst-case scenario first—starting from the possibility that the Sage of Six Paths harbored malicious intentions and ruling out potential dangers? Instead, why had I simply taken it for granted that he was on my side?
Even if the Sage of Six Paths' attitude had leaned toward me and appeared benevolent, I shouldn't have directly... no, I wouldn't have directly assumed that he meant well!
This was far too careless! It was true that the Sage of Six Paths had been a positive character in the original work, and at the most critical moment, he had given the two protagonists what they needed most.
But that didn't mean he was necessarily a positive character to me.
After