With trembling hands, Pudding extracted a complete reel of memories and left it floating in the center of the room.
Setsuna reached out and touched the reel. His consciousness plunged into it.
He saw everything he had experienced in this world—meeting Ace, forming the Gourmet Sailing Crew, defeating one powerful foe after another...
Further back lay his memories from before he crossed over: battles in the Naruto World, training under a master in the Gourmet World, cultivation in the Dragon Ball World...
The memories kept rewinding until they crossed a certain boundary.
Setsuna was stunned to discover another fragment from before he had reincarnated from Blue Star into the Naruto World.
The fragment passed so quickly it lasted only one microsecond—a millionth of a second. Still an ordinary person at the time, he had had no chance to realize he was "dead"!
That was right. Setsuna clearly saw that he had died the instant he crossed over, and the universe had died with him.
"The universe was destroyed? And I got caught up in something that absurd?" Setsuna could hardly believe it.
He tore himself out of the torrent of memories and pointed to the almost imperceptible stretch of film. "How much can you slow this memory down?" he asked Pudding.
Pudding nervously twisted her fingers, her three eyes blinking uneasily. "T-ten thousand times, at most."
"Good. Do it," Setsuna said gravely.
Under the influence of Pudding's power, the fragment, originally no bigger than a speck of light, rapidly expanded and unfolded into a vast, magnificent panorama of memory.
The millionth of a second that had once vanished in a flash now lay fully displayed before Setsuna.
Setsuna touched the reel again and immersed his consciousness in it. To his shock, he found two figures locked in a fierce battle