"Since the worlds that were destroyed all involved outsiders, what does it mean that you are now seeking an outsider's help? If seeking an outsider's help could also possibly prevent a world's destruction, then once I became strong enough that you had no way to deal with me, you could have come to find me. Did I really need to come looking for you? There are things you've concealed and distorted here, aren't there? Not all of it is the whole truth, is it?"
The doubt flashed through Chiba's mind, but he responded with a question instead.
Clearly, the meaning behind the Sage of Six Paths' words was that those worlds had been destroyed, even their cores had vanished, and he suspected that outsiders had ultimately altered the predetermined future and destroyed those worlds.
However, those worlds had not been destroyed merely because the predetermined future had been changed. Rather, when that future changed, the world's core had been drawn into it, and the collapse of that core had led to the world's destruction.
As for what had happened to the outsiders, they might have shattered along with their worlds, or they might have continued traveling through worlds. No one knew.
And that was precisely the key point. He had not said what became of the outsiders. Chiba was not deliberately being alarmist either; there was another implication hidden within those words—the possibility that once a world was destroyed, the outsider might not meet a good end either.
In other words, those words actually contained a threat toward him, an outsider. Of course, it was extremely subtle and tactful, easy to overlook if one was not careful. Just from that single sentence, it was clear that the Sage of Six Paths would not be easy to deal with.
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