"Is it really you... No, that's not right. More than a decade should have passed in the outside world. Why hasn't your voice changed at all? Is it really... you, Chiba?"
Upon hearing that calm yet faintly trembling voice, the unfamiliar girl's voice came from within the black hole once more.
No way...
At a time like this, Taki Chiba wasn't planning to...
Wasn't it supposed to be three years later?
Wasn't it supposed to happen when there was no predetermined fate?
But that had to be it! Otherwise, how could she get to see Taki Chiba truly lose control?
But...
No, something was wrong! This situation was off!
Those children should have been abducted by Uchiha Nobuhiko. How could they possibly be together with them? And from the looks of it, they had been the ones to save the children. Most likely, they had been in the same place before.
Dead people... no, souls, together with the living...
And why would they be in the place where Uchiha Nobuhiko imprisoned people?
But other than them, who else could make Taki Chiba lose his composure like this?
At that moment, Number 14, who had been closely watching the situation here, could not move her body, but her eyes kept darting backward, trying to look toward the three openings.
A series of unanswered questions flashed through her mind.
Although the scene before her seemed to be nothing more than hostages being rescued, with their rescuers conveniently able to communicate here and also being old acquaintances of Chiba, the chain of events behind it contained far too much information.
For a moment, Number 14 did not even know where to begin thinking. Instead, she became even more confused.
Yet vaguely, if she could connect all of these clues, she would catch a