"Crack... crackle... crackle crackle..."
Soft cracking sounds echoed through the Sealed Space, a seal even Chiba at the Sage of Six Paths level could not identify. In his eyes, the intricate techniques forming this space—a perfect fusion of seals, curse marks, and barrier formulas—were shattering into Tadpole Script characters one by one. On the surface, cracks spread across the surroundings, as if invisible glass were breaking apart.
Three minutes...
It seemed he had still been too optimistic.
Three minutes was already the limit. With his understanding of Sealing Jutsu, Curse Mark Jutsu, and Barrier Jutsu, coupled with the absolute control he possessed here in his mental space, he had only managed to maintain it for less than three minutes.
As Chiba watched everything before him crumble apart, his expression grew slightly unnatural, and a faint, bitter smile quietly appeared on his face.
Still, three minutes had been enough.
And he had discovered quite a few unexpected surprises.
As for those experiences, it was better not to touch them...
With that bitter smile, such thoughts flashed through Chiba's mind. Yet in the end, as though he had realized something, the bitterness in his smile gradually stiffened before finally fading away.
At that moment, his expression became somewhat strange. He seemed more somber, yet also calmer. His eyes slowly deepened, concealing faint traces of desolation and loneliness.
"Does it still need time..."
But the next instant, as if startled awake, the depth, desolation, and loneliness were replaced by alarm. Those traces of bleakness and solitude vanished from his face as well.
The personality consciousness of his other self was gone, but the intense emotions that came with those experiences seemed to need more time...
He let out a quiet sigh inwardly.
Although his other self had fully followed his wishes and erased