Ares suddenly felt as though his head were splitting apart. In unbearable agony, he let out a low growl. "No, you're not me. I'm Ares. I'm Ares!"
"I... I'm Ares!!"
"Why are you appearing in my mind? I don't care who you are or where you came from. Just get out of my head!!"
The low voice made it clear that Ares was suffering from excruciating pain, as though his brain were about to be torn apart. His thoughts were muddled and sluggish.
At that moment, another voice rang out in his mind. It was ethereal. "I know your name is Ares..."
"No, my name is Ares!"
"Your father named you after the War God from mythology. He hoped that you—or I—would protect the Land of Wano in the future and become its War God."
"Right?!"
Right?!
Right!
Ares instinctively felt that it was right, because that had been his father's original intention in naming him Ares. His father had placed great hopes in him.
It was right, yet the voice answering him claimed that he was also Ares himself.
Ares suddenly came to his senses and roared, "That's not right! You're you. You just said your name was Li Yang. You're Li Yang, and I'm Ares!"
"Heh heh..."
"I was just teasing you." Li Yang's face seemed to bear a relieved smile. "Hey—"
"You guy named Ares, I'm actually dead..."
"A soul that should never have appeared in this world."
"My name really is Li Yang."
Ares suddenly stared at the man before him in surprise, unable to understand why such a strange smile had appeared on his face.
Why would he say that he shouldn't have appeared in this world?
He simply stared blankly at the other man.
Li Yang looked forlorn. "I'm indeed curious about this world,