"My wish is to become stronger..."
Hyuga Sho made his way down the stairs, going from the top floor on the fifth level all the way to the first floor.
"This modern world clearly can't make me stronger..."
In his previous life, Hyuga Sho had tried every method and already reached the limit that an ordinary human could attain.
"In other words... this Mental Landscape isn't a place where I can fulfill my wish..."
Hyuga Sho couldn't help thinking of the Masked Clan ninja whose head he had crushed beneath his foot.
"Hyuga Mami said that guy looked like he was being controlled by the box... Perhaps the box is a controller, and anyone put inside it will be turned into a puppet..."
Adversity.
Since this wasn't a world that could fulfill his wish.
Naturally, the opposite was true.
—A realm of despair where his wish could not be fulfilled.
"In this modern world without miracles, clearly... they want me to despair..."
However.
Hyuga Sho, who had retained all his ninja abilities, would never feel despair.
If Hyuga Sho's will were not firm.
Or if there were a flaw in his heart.
After entering this world, he might have become an ordinary person incapable of even killing a chicken.
But he was Hyuga Sho.
He had always been different.
He walked out through the entrance of the apartment building.
The residents of the complex walked back and forth along its inner streets.
Some of them occasionally glanced at Hyuga Sho.
But none of them showed any particularly unusual expression.
It was as if Hyuga Sho's black ninja outfit and pair of white eyes were not worth being surprised about at all.
Their reaction gave Hyuga Sho even more to speculate about.
At the very least...
This world was not the