No sensations, no emotions. It seemed that nothing could shake his heart.
Not even death right before his eyes.
Not even while he was dying.
It was as if his soul had been pulled away. Everything he did now seemed to be driven by his body's instinct to fulfill his obsession with revenge.
After losing everything, his past self went through several more scenarios, and through them, Chiba gradually figured out his past self's current state.
At the same time, he himself seemed to experience that feeling of having his soul pulled away.
Meanwhile, as his past self's understanding of the evil in human nature deepened, he had almost learned to view things from another perspective—one that his current self would never have considered.
Gradually, he began to see certain matters more clearly than before.
At this moment, he seemed to understand a little more why his other self had insisted on making him personally experience this cruel memory.
This memory was cruel—so cruel that it might even cause irreversible changes to Chiba's current personality—but what it contained was truly something Chiba needed.
Something that would help him in the future.
And help him immensely.
Both technically and psychologically.
However, such help came at a cost. Perhaps because he was within this memory and could fully feel everything his past self felt, he was now also experiencing that state of having no sensations and no emotions. He could clearly feel that sensation of his soul being pulled away.
And this state had begun to bring about some rather unpleasant psychological changes. For instance, a sense of emotional detachment. Even when he thought back to himself before entering the memory, he felt a sense of unfamiliarity.
During these past few scenarios, Chiba had even spent a considerable amount of effort repeatedly