Computation! (1/4)

Once they pinned down the location, the rest would be easy! Looking at the map marker beneath his finger, the smile at the corner of Chiba's mouth, still chewing on jerky, widened further. His other hand had already clenched tightly, trembling slightly.

"Wait."

At that moment, the second Shadow Clone Chiba, who had been looking at Shadow Clone Chiba with contempt, poked his head out from behind the half-crouching Chiba. He stretched out a hand and pointed elsewhere. "If we're only looking at water sources and vegetation, there's another place here. It's a bamboo forest, but on the map, both bamboo forests and regular woods use this same forest icon unless it's a primeval forest. Water runs through this place too. It completely matches the location we're looking for."

Clearly, the second Shadow Clone Chiba did not quite trust the original Chiba's conclusion. He seemed to think Chiba had been too hasty.

"Original, I think your emotions are affecting you. You're not looking at this objectively."

Then he added another sentence, stating it outright.

Chiba... was being criticized by his own Shadow Clone! Before the second Shadow Clone Chiba had even finished speaking, Hirohiko and Yukina, who were already getting confused, looked from the original Chiba to the second Shadow Clone Chiba. An astonished thought surfaced in their minds.

At this point, they seemed to have given up trying to understand Chiba's theories about living water, dead water, and logical thinking.

"Tch, are you an idiot? This place is completely off their route. Only our route could possibly reach this area. If they followed their route, then what, are they idiots? Going out of their way to make such a huge detour?"

As soon as the second Shadow Clone Chiba finished, before the original Chiba could explain, Shadow Clone Chiba