The Wheel gave no answer to Uzumaki Gamu's question. It looked like it really had gone offline!
So Uzumaki Gamu would have to figure out for himself why this trip would take so long!
"The reason doesn't really matter. What matters is the time... Twenty years? That much time will pass all at once?" Uzumaki Gamu sighed. Exactly-the issue wasn't the reason, but the time!
Twenty years would pass in a flash. By the time he returned, everything would have changed. His father might have passed away, his eldest brother would be getting old, and Mito... would have become a middle-aged woman...
"...Just thinking about it is terrifying!" Uzumaki Gamu said, his head aching. "Okay, it doesn't really matter for me, since it won't feel like long at all. But for them..." For their sake, he couldn't leave for that long. He needed to find a solution.
Uzumaki Gamu thought, Back in Lelouch's world, I kept a Wood Clone active for two years. In other words, as long as I give it enough Chakra, a Wood Clone can last a long time without fighting... But could it last twenty years?
Keeping one active for nearly two years had been no problem, but twenty years was an enormous stretch. Uzumaki Gamu wasn't confident.
If it received a continuous supply of Chakra, it might be possible! Nine-Tails' voice rang out in Uzumaki Gamu's mind.
Uzumaki Gamu thought it over and said, "That does sound possible, but it's not like I can plug in a USB cable and charge it... I could do it myself, but anyone else... Who could recharge my clone's Chakra?" Transferring one's own Chakra to someone else was a delicate operation, and transferring it to a clone required even greater care. Otherwise, the clone would fall apart-even a Wood