"Sure enough, a clone is still just a clone. No matter how advanced it is, even if it combines Sage Art and Yin-Yang Release, it is still only a clone."
He lightly clenched his fist, feeling the seamless sense of control and the comfort of having his form restored. "Hada Ichiba" sighed, seemingly dissatisfied yet helpless about it.
At this moment, "Hada Ichiba" had fully regained his form. The sticky, sagging, distorted sensation from before had completely vanished. He even looked exactly as he had before, without the slightest injury.
However, that was only on the surface. To the current "Hada Ichiba"—or rather, to Chiba's consciousness within the hatched Spiritualization Seed—Hada Ichiba was far from "fully restored."
Perhaps before long, this body—or rather, this Sage Art Slug clone he had cultivated for nearly a dozen years—would have to be dispelled.
Beneath that seamless sense of control, he could feel the collapse of every cell composing this body, cells formed from Yin-Yang Release and Slug Sage Art Chakra.
Yes, at this very moment, Hada Ichiba's body was undergoing cellular-level disintegration throughout. Even repairing it again with Sage Art Chakra and Yin-Yang Release would be useless. This was an irreversible process.
In other words, Hada Ichiba, this Slug Sage Art clone, had truly reached its end.
Not even Yin-Yang Release could turn the tide.
Then, this phenomenon meant that if a Slug Sage Art clone had half or more of its physical form destroyed, even if it could recover through Sage Art Chakra, that would only prolong its existence temporarily. In the end, it would still have to be dispelled.
Thinking this, "Hada Ichiba" came to a conclusion.
"Then, I need to make use of the last of it..."
At the same time, after that thought flashed through his mind, "Hada Ichiba"