Alternate Space.
Time Freeze had become the cruelest torture in this Alternate Space.
Shihōin Naraku stood in the Alternate Space, held in a single pose.
An invisible force had completely frozen his body. His limbs could not move an inch, and he could not even lift a finger.
Yet his consciousness remained exceptionally clear.
Clear enough to feel every second pass.
Clear enough to hear his own heartbeat echo through the silence in an almost torturous rhythm.
He had already tried breaking free of Time Freeze, using chakra to batter the boundaries of the seal.
But whether because he had too little chakra or for some other reason, everything he tried had come to nothing.
I'm regretting this a little.
I should have eaten a Senzu Bean first and restored my chakra. Then I wouldn't have ended up in such an awkward position.
Naraku was not certain whether he could forcibly break through the Time Freeze seal even with a full supply of chakra.
But now he was so depleted of chakra and stamina that he could not even attempt it.
More troublesome still, his frozen body meant the chakra inside him could not recover on its own.
Under normal circumstances, even if his chakra and stamina were completely exhausted, Naraku's own recuperative abilities would restore them rapidly, in the shortest possible time, even without a Senzu Bean.
But that was impossible now. His body was frozen, leaving him unable to recover at all.
Only his consciousness remained active.
An ordinary person sealed like this would probably suffer a mental breakdown within three days.
Their lucid mind would feel time gnawing away at their will, little by little, while their body remained like a rigid statue. That sense of disconnection was enough to destroy anyone's sanity.
But Shihōin Naraku was