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[Account "Sawada Hiroki" created]
...An invisible sense of panic, anxiety, and unease...
That was right...
The username he had chosen had always been—Sawada Hiroki. He had never added parentheses or the number 2 after it!
So who had changed his username?
Orochimaru? Madara Uchiha? Or perhaps... Shisui Uchiha from the future...
No, no, no... It shouldn't be...
If it was an enemy from the future, why hadn't they killed him immediately? Instead, they had merely restarted him and changed his username in silence.
[Kushina]: |Surprise (*°ω°*) → Worry.log|: Hiroki! You're awake? That's great! You were sleeping so deeply that I didn't dare disturb you! How are you feeling? Is there anywhere that still hurts? You don't look too well right now. [Hiroki]: Nothing... I just found a few small problems.
While replying to Kushina with his thoughts, Hiroki forced himself to calm down.
He knew that he absolutely could not let Kushina notice anything was wrong. Panic could not solve any problems.
And more importantly...
He had no idea who the enemy was, how they had launched their attack, or whether they were currently watching him and the people around him.
—If, as he suspected, he had shut down and restarted himself, then he must have encountered a grave crisis in an instant—one that the Byakugan could not detect, the Rinnegan could not sense, and against which all his current primary methods had failed.
Hiroki closed the memory rollback in the D Drive.
[Kushina]: |Worry.log|: Do you need my help!? Even though I'm useless, I'll still do everything I can to help you! And the Nine-Tails is really strong! [Hiroki]: It's fine. Don't overthink it.
Hiroki silently reassured Kushina, but his thoughts did not stop.
First, he still could