Time flowed forward like a stream, neither hurried nor slow.
All things in the world were washed over by it, gathering the dust of time.
"Can time be reversed?"
"Perhaps. But even if time rewound to its starting point, it would no longer look the same as it did in the beginning."
Was a person with the memories of a thirty-year-old returning to the age of ten still the same person as their younger self?
Without memories of the future, it would be meaningless; with information that allowed one to foresee the future, the two were entirely different matters.
"So that's how it is!"
The black-haired young man, much more composed than before, nodded.
"So this is all prophecy amounts to!"
"It's quite rude to stare through me with the Rinnegan for so long... Sasuke!"
Mizuki leisurely lifted his enamel teacup and took a sip.
"Since you're back this time, stay a while longer."
"Alright!"
Sasuke Uchiha put away the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan in his left eye and drew a deep breath.
"Every time I see you, Teacher Mizuki, I find it unbelievable."
He was no longer as inexperienced as when he had first awakened the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan. Whenever he felt that he had improved, the man before him always gave off an even more terrifying sense of pressure.
He had once wondered whether he had seen wrong—whether that power, which should never have existed in the world, had truly appeared before his eyes so openly.
The growth rate he had once been proud of was not worth mentioning before such utterly unreasonable strength.
His only gain was a broader perspective, which made Sasuke understand even more clearly just how terrifying the mild-faced man before him was.
"How did this journey make you feel?"
As per Mizuki and Sasuke Uchiha's verbal