They said the best way to kill someone was to destroy their heart. After driving the powerful man who had tortured his companions to death insane, after turning that once silent, invincible-looking powerhouse into a madman who rolled his eyes and drooled, his past self had left him to fend for himself. Yet he still had not regained his emotions or senses.
And Chiba finally understood that revenge was not the key. Ever since his past self had lost his emotions and senses, revenge had merely been a goal, not an obsession. The reason he could still feel something when he thought of revenge was only because it was a goal.
It was simply an emotionless sense of urgency to complete that goal.
It was not because he had felt emotion or any other sensation.
Then, at that moment, the feeling of his soul being pulled away—the feeling that had tormented Chiba, threatening to irreversibly alter his state of having no emotions or senses—suddenly began to fade.
After witnessing that scene of revenge, he seemed to feel a sense of release. Although his past self had still not regained his emotions or senses, to Chiba, who still possessed both, his past self's method of handling things, his method of revenge, was even more cathartic than anything Chiba himself could have imagined.
As he experienced everything alongside his past self, Chiba, as a relatively independent consciousness with normal emotions and senses, had completely empathized with it. It was practically the same as experiencing it himself. After all they had gone through, Chiba naturally had feelings for his past self's companions. Even if he had not, his past self's influence would have given rise to them. The companions' tragic deaths, Xiao Qian entrusting her life to him and giving him hope to