Uchiha Shin's brow furrowed even deeper. What exactly was going on? Why were there two of him?
What hidden truth lay behind this?
Listening to the woodcutter, he did remember that four or five days after arriving at Mind Platform Square-Inch Mountain, he had indeed gone down the mountain once to learn more about the place. He had also stood on that very stone.
"And then there was nothing else?" Uchiha Shin asked.
The woodcutter shook his head.
Uchiha Shin sat there in thought, utterly unable to make sense of it.
Two versions of himself had appeared here. One had gone up the mountain, while the other had gone down it, and then they had merged together below the mountain. Why?
Could it have been a split soul? Or a split personality?
A split personality seemed unlikely. No matter how fractured one's personality was, there would still only be one body. Yet there had been two bodies, and from the looks of it, they could not see each other.
"Woodcutter Big Brother, why didn't you tell me about this back then?" Uchiha Shin asked.
"This matter was simply too unbelievable. Even I found it hard to believe and thought my eyes had deceived me. Besides, your strength was not great at the time. If I had told you, I feared you might not have been able to accept it all at once. What if something had gone wrong? Later, I decided to bury the matter and let no one in the world ever know.
"But now that you have asked me like this, and with the Three Realms facing such circumstances, you are far too important to the Three Realms. I had to tell you the truth," the woodcutter explained.
Uchiha Shin nodded. Even now, he had yet to fully