"Do you think this can kill you?"
At Uchiha Nobuhiko's half-teasing words, Chiba's lips curled into a faintly mocking smile as he calmly replied.
At that moment, a red diamond-shaped mark had already appeared on his forehead. Within it, on either side of the diamond-shaped, glass-like seal filled with red Chakra, the crystalline glass-like texture seemed to begin spreading. In the blink of an eye, two more diamond-shaped, glass-like seals extended beneath it on both sides, tightly fitting against the original diamond-shaped, glass-like seal containing red Chakra.
"Hmph!"
Uchiha Nobuhiko merely sneered in response, neither confirming nor denying it.
"You didn't talk to me for so long just to distract me so you could absorb the Chakra from my body, did you?"
At the end of his words, Uchiha Nobuhiko seemed to recall something, his eyes narrowing slightly.
At that moment, within the sensory vision of his Rinnegan, the black mist-shrouded space slowly emerged—the Time Prison. At this time, within this prison space, or rather, this cell, which was clearly different from the space where the outsider's soul had originally resided, chains occasionally clinked and rattled through the murky, indistinct surroundings.
Amid the shadows, whenever the chains clinked, the mist seemed to part slightly, revealing nine figures kneeling on the ground, their hands suspended by chains in an inverted V-shape. At the points where the chains touched their hands, Chakra of various colors was continuously drawn out along the chains, flowing toward their ends.
"I can't deny it."
Chiba was exceptionally frank about it. He neither hid anything nor tried to save face before Uchiha Nobuhiko.
Yes, while part of what he had said earlier had been an outlet for his own emotions, there was no denying that he had also intended to draw Uchiha Nobuhiko's attention.
After all, there