Chakra!
I couldn't move, but I wasn't dead!
He knew a little about what was happening outside, but there was nothing he could do.
Chakra, if he remembered correctly, was a concept from the pantheon of a country called India on ancient Terra.
As an old geezer who had lived from ancient times to the present, he was practically a living human museum, a living fossil.
Naturally, he knew what chakra was.
However, real-world chakra was merely another name for psychic power.
He knew that much.
But this chakra seemed a little off. It seemed completely different from the chakra in Indian mythology, and it didn't have any psychic aura.
Chakra... Chakra... Wasn't this...
Wait!
Suddenly, an ancient memory surged through his mind: a manga that had once been hugely popular on ancient Terra.
Naruto!
He remembered!
He'd followed that manga for a while!
That's right. As an old geezer who'd lived from ancient times to the present, the Emperor had experienced a great many things. He'd dabbled in the cultural works and trends of nearly every era, and he'd played plenty of games in his spare time, too.
You could say he'd experienced modern life. He'd just been something of a shut-in back then. If humanity weren't in crisis now, he wouldn't have come forward—he'd have stayed shut away.
A bona fide shut-in!
"That's right! The chakra from Naruto! But wasn't that something from a work of fiction? How could it possibly exist in reality?"
He was baffled. In a sense, he'd watched that manga come into being and become a huge hit, so he knew the chakra in it was fictional—a reimagining of the Indian chakra system. A supernatural power like chakra couldn't possibly exist in the real world.
If it did, it would have been discovered long