How could this...
Be happening?
White filled his entire field of vision. The surprise in Chiba's eyes slowly turned into astonishment and confusion, and a thought could not help but flash through his mind.
At this moment, all he could see was a white world tinged with faint golden light. There was nothing around him. He alone stood in the midst of it all, still holding the scroll.
This place felt somewhat familiar.
Hm? The scroll in his hand was gone.
This was not the real world. Was it some kind of mental world?
Then, lowering his head slightly, he found that his right hand was clenched around nothing. Though he maintained the posture of holding the scroll, there was no scroll in his hand, nor were there any fragments of the shattered scroll.
Clearly, this was another space.
Why had he come here? Had absorbing the Nine-Tails Chakra triggered some arrangement made by his past self? Or was there some other reason? Perhaps already accustomed to being suddenly pulled into another space, Chiba did not remain confused for long this time. He began considering all the possibilities that could have brought him here.
Based on his previous experiences, being suddenly pulled into another space always required certain conditions to be triggered. His consciousness had already been transferred to other spaces many times, and without exception, each of those experiences had required some condition to be met.
For example, the mental space—or Sealed Space—outside the sealed gate that he entered whenever he was severely injured and on the verge of death; the Dark Space he entered when he was truly dying; the Transmigration Benefit Space beyond the sealed gate, created specifically for transmigrators by Uchiha Nobuhiko's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan; and the true mental space of the real Chiba, which only