"Right... beside us? An outsider?"
Uchiha Saintess's words immediately drew Hirohiko and Yukina's attention. Their hearts had been so overwhelmed by intense, complicated emotions that they could barely think of anything else, but they instantly turned their heads, their startled words spilling out.
"What?"
And it was not just Hirohiko and Yukina. Even Second Pillar, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and the Hyuga Siblings all turned to look at Uchiha Saintess, the same exclamation escaping their lips.
"That's right. There is actually an outsider right beside you."
Uchiha Saintess pressed her lips together and fell silent for a moment before nodding and speaking.
Was I too hasty?
Sure enough, had staying here for too long unknowingly changed some things?
Given the current situation, telling them about the outsider beside them did not seem like the best choice.
A hesitant, helpless thought passed through Uchiha Saintess's mind.
There was no doubt that she had spoken those words too impulsively.
They had suddenly learned something that overturned everything they knew—that their world was merely a manga, that they themselves might be nothing more than manga characters created for others' entertainment, and that their desperate struggles to survive were merely entertainment for someone else. No matter what, they should not have been able to accept it, and they would inevitably feel resistance toward it.
And now she was telling them that there was an outsider beside them, someone who treated their suffering as entertainment.
Then, this outsider she had mentioned might not be able to prove the point she wanted to make—that outsiders were not fundamentally different from them.
She had chosen the wrong time to say it.
Only after realizing this did she begin to hesitate.
The reason for this abrupt, inappropriate situation was obvious. Her mind had reached a certain limit inside