"Smelt the Life Shadow's greed..."
"Stop pretending to be an AI! You owe me compensation for trying to fool me with artificial stupidity!" Akaseki interrupted the Balance Gate's act.
The Balance Gate: ...
Rashomon was not an ordinary living being. Although it could not hear what Akaseki was saying, it still understood what he meant.
From the looks of it, something really had gone wrong with the test.
Akaseki could not succeed, but he would not fail either. He was... stuck!
"Smelt..."
"You're not planning to stall for seven days until I have to leave, are you?" Akaseki eyed the artificial idiot before him suspiciously.
On Forest Street, the former Senju Clan neighbors timed their visit for twenty-four hours after the fourth stage began and gathered at Ranwu's house again... surely not. Surely not?
He had gone twenty-four hours without failing. Had he actually succeeded?
After seeing Akaseki pass the fourth stage, every one of the former Senju Clan neighbors wore a complicated expression!
"Canglan, he passed the fourth stage too."
"Mm."
"The Uchiha Clan should have very little chance of passing, right?"
"Mm."
"Can he pass the fifth stage?"
"...I don't know."
Lanjun looked toward the place where Akaseki was taking the trial, both irritated and... somewhat expectant.
Akaseki did not dawdle much either. Soon, the fifth stage began, and the final Rashomon opened its eyes!
"How long does the fifth stage usually take?" Lanjun asked impatiently.
They rarely saw anyone make it to the fifth stage.
"There's no fixed duration, but... the longer, the better, I suppose," Canglan said.
There was only so much Canglan could reveal, but he himself naturally knew that the fifth stage was all about balance.
The faster one went, the easier it was to lose that balance.
Taking it slowly was always a