After the fake Natsume was exposed, his face first darkened, then quickly calmed again.
He stared fixedly at Natsume.
"What? Not pretending anymore?"
"Or are you lashing out in embarrassment and planning to kill me to silence me?"
Natsume sneered.
Yet the fake Natsume did not get angry. Instead, he sighed.
"You really aren't simple..."
"But you still guessed wrong."
"I'm indeed not you, but you and I were originally one."
Natsume: "???"
What kind of riddle was this impostor spouting?
He hated people who spoke in riddles most of all.
He had to find a way to get rid of this guy quickly!
"You're an impostor, yet you're still talking tough."
"This isn't talking tough. If I had nothing to do with you, how could I control these weapons?"
"What exactly are you?"
"I am Uchiha Natsume, and so are you. We are both parts separated from the soul."
"The soul? Separated?"
"To be precise, I am the embodiment of your primal desires."
Hearing this, Natsume frowned even more deeply.
The embodiment of primal desires?
The id?
Was that the desire-self?
Then were there also the ego and the superego?
Wait...
'Id, ego, superego'?
Although Natsume had not understood these concepts very deeply in his previous life, he had at least heard of them.
The id: the most primal desires in a person, those that satisfied instinctive impulses.
The ego: the psychological component of personality, gradually differentiated from the id and situated in the middle layer of the personality structure.
The superego: the sublimated layer of the personality structure, governed by the principle of perfection. It had three functions: first, suppressing the impulses of the id; second, monitoring the ego; third, pursuing a state of perfection.
Didn't that happen to correspond to 'spiritual desire, spiritual intellect, and spirituality'?
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