"Is it over?"
"That's it?"
"It's already been reversed?"
The white light filling all their senses faded. After Chiba said, "Done," everyone stared at him with strange expressions, unable to stop themselves from speaking.
Even Hyuga Yukyō, who normally would not speak lightly in such circumstances, risked being mocked by Chiba afterward as he stared wide-eyed and spoke with an expression that clearly said, Are you playing me?
"Mm..."
In response, Chiba seemed somewhat ashamed as he lowered his head, as though blaming himself for not giving them the light-and-shadow spectacle they had wanted.
But sometimes, the greatest truths were the simplest. Some things ordinary people would never dare imagine, things that could never possibly be done, were this simple when completed.
As simple as a flash of white light.
And with that simple flash, the remaining Nightmare Cycle Universe Fragments had been completely used up. At this moment, his right hand was empty.
"I somehow feel really disappointed."
Noticing Chiba's empty right hand as well, Nao slowly sat back down from her leaning posture and said it without concealment.
Chiba immediately became even more embarrassed.
"Then what about outside?"
Yukina suddenly thought of something and looked out the window.
"Mm... Outside has already returned to how it was five days before the Chunin Exams. And because of the higher-dimensional operation of the Nightmare Cycle Core Fragment, those who died because of the Chunin Exams have returned to being alive due to the reversal of time. Of course, I also used the Nightmare Cycle Universe Core Fragment to erase their memories of you. As for those who did not die in battle, I used their post-Chunin Exams war state—the state after I erased their memories—to return them to the present point in time. In other words, no one currently knows