The memories that followed no longer belonged to that cruel stretch of memory.
The Nightmare Cycle was the cruelest period of the life his past self had experienced.
That experience had inflicted enormous harm on his past self—the other him—permanently robbing him of emotion and sensation. Although it had granted him rather terrifying abilities, that devilish-whisper-like control over the evil in human nature, the loss far outweighed the gain.
After emerging from those memories for the first time, Chiba understood why the other him had seemed so gloomy. At the same time, his state of mind underwent a drastic transformation. Having experienced that seemingly endless nightmare-like memory, many obstacles that had once seemed difficult no longer felt like much of a problem.
It was like how, after experiencing the Naruto World, he looked back on the things he had done in his previous life as though he were looking at embarrassing dark history.
Chiba's heart became steadier.
And more resolute, harder to shake.
Then, he went through that memory another dozen or so times. While the memories had not yet fully fused and he could still experience them personally, he absorbed and consolidated everything he could from his state of mind and from that Nightmare Cycle.
And after experiencing it over a dozen times, Chiba grew increasingly interested in the enormous ball of light in the final scene, one that radiated warm, gentle light like a star. It was the core of that Nightmare Cycle. Or rather, if the Nightmare Cycle were compared to an infinite-flow world, then this core had a familiar name.
The Main God.
Yes, although it did not possess any exchange functions, that ball of light was simply too easy to associate with the Main God.
Moreover, according to the strongest youth among them—the one who