"My memories didn't just have the fact that I copied and backed up another you deleted, did they? Another me also deleted what this Light Orb was, didn't he? I should have known this Light Orb's origin and name, right?"
Chiba frowned tightly as he fired off a string of questions at the young man opposite him, who looked slightly stunned by the abrupt interruption.
Just now, in that instant, he had gone through every memory involving the use of the Light Orb. After reviewing them, he discovered that the other him's memories contained everything—the detailed methods of operating the Light Orb and all the rest—but no matter how hard he searched, he could not find its origin or name.
Since he understood and handled the Light Orb so well, it was impossible that he did not know its origin and name. Even if it had been some treasure he acquired by chance, there should at least have been memories of him pondering or investigating its origin. Yet there was nothing. That was far too strange.
It completely went against his way of thinking—or rather, his pattern of behavior.
Normally, after obtaining something this powerful, there was no way he would not investigate where it came from. Even if he found no answers, he would not be like this now, without even the slightest curiosity or desire to investigate.
This lack of curiosity, this complete lack of desire to investigate, was as if he already knew the Light Orb's origin and name! Clearly, he had known them, but had deliberately erased them.
As for the reason, perhaps it was to guard against the Sage of Six Paths or the World Will using some method to obtain the Light Orb's origin and name from this other him.
Or perhaps there had