Sorry?
Hearing the faint words drifting out of the darkness, Chiba, who had already reached out and was about to step forward, seemingly intending to rush up and pull back Hyuga Yukyō as he walked into the darkness, froze slightly. He stopped in his tracks and stared wordlessly at the darkness swallowing Hyuga Yukyō's figure.
Was that...
Was he apologizing to me? Hyuga Yukyō was apologizing to me... ?
At that moment, perhaps because he was too shocked, his mind seemed to have crashed.
Hyuga Yukyō apologized to him? What kind of absurd fantasy was that? Honestly, Hyuga Yukyō speaking to him politely without a barb already meant the sun was rising in the west. And now he was actually apologizing to him? Chiba truly had no idea how to react.
This was practically beyond his common sense! A dying man's words are kind?
The next second, after Chiba recovered slightly, that thought was the first thing that flashed through his mind.
Perhaps because they had been natural rivals, naturally at odds, he was always inclined to think the worst of Hyuga Yukyō. Even though Hyuga Yukyō had already used his life to give him a chance to save everything.
He still instinctively placed Hyuga Yukyō on the opposing side.
No! A dying man's words are kind?
How could that be?! The next moment, Chiba rejected his instinctive tendency to place Hyuga Yukyō on the opposite side.
Hyuga Yukyō had probably always felt deeply guilty over wanting to kill him during the Chunin Exams, and over that Kunai attack after Yukina had been rescued.
Deeply guilty toward him.
If Chiba's own position was set aside and one looked purely from Hyuga Yukyō's perspective, Hyuga Yukyō was actually quite a pitiable person.
His experiences were remarkably similar to Chiba's, especially when