Failure...
My...? As his eyes widened slightly, Chiba's pupils gradually contracted. His brows drew together faintly, then slowly relaxed. First surprise, then confusion flashed through his mind.
"Heh!"
Then, in the next second, he suddenly laughed.
"Are you going to tell me next that, like Uchiha Nobuhiko, I'm actually a Reincarnator who has been endlessly reborn in this world? That you are my past self? That even the previous transmigrators were all me?"
After laughing, he raised his eyes slightly and looked at the self before him as he spoke.
His words already carried a trace of mockery.
A failed... him?
That was all Chiba could think of from those words. Since this self claimed to be his failed self, then it could only mean he had failed before. Whether he had failed now was still impossible to say; this failure certainly did not refer to the present. And the existence of this "me" should belong to the past. Everything here was the best proof. If it were his present self, then he could not possibly be unaware of the purpose behind all this. If it were his future self, then none of this would have appeared before him.
It could only be the past. The "me" before him was the "me" from the past.
And since he said he was his failed self, that failure could only have happened in the past. In this life, he had grown from infancy to this point without any problems. Every moment had been his own; there had not been the slightest gap mixed in. Every last bit of it had been lived by him alone.
Therefore, this failure could not have occurred in this life.
It might have been in his previous life, but he clearly remembered that his previous life had