"I understand our identities now. So what exactly is this place?"
Noticing the gradually changing look in the "Chiba" opposite him, Chiba forcefully suppressed the chilling shock surging within him. He raised his head slightly, looked at the "Chiba" before him, and spoke with certainty.
Putting together everything this "Chiba" had said, Chiba had gained even more doubts, but he no longer questioned the identity of the "self" before him. This "self" had made it quite clear.
He was his past.
In other words, he was the portion of memory that had been separated out during the period between his supposed previous life and his transmigration into this Naruto World.
Although he did not know why memories could possess a complete personality, retain a temperament, and even possess absolutely or relatively independent thought during conversation, there was no doubt that the "self" before him was his memories—everything he currently could not recall.
Including the memories of his previous life.
The "Chiba" before him was, in truth, his memories.
All the memories of his specific experiences in his previous life, as well as the memories of what happened during the period after his death in that life, were contained within this "self."
As for him, strictly speaking, he possessed only the memories of this Naruto World.
Along with the intense obsessions left behind from his previous life.
It was precisely those obsessions that had supported him in obtaining everything he now possessed.
It could be said that the two of them were actually one person, merely two completely different personalities formed from two separate sets of memories.
Although he still did not know why this outcome had occurred, why they had separated, or what method had been used to separate them, the current circumstances—and the sense that Chiba seemed to know