He wanted to sit up, but he couldn't move at all.
"Your mind has been injured. Don't move around," Yushiro said. "I underestimated how long it would take you to solve the problem. What happened?"
Tetsu no Sosuke obediently lay back down and rubbed his forehead. It felt as though several knives were stirring inside his skull, whipping his brains like egg whites. "Zenitsu Agatsuma didn't tell you?"
"He couldn't explain it."
Tetsu no Sosuke let out a breath. "That sounds like him... Things were a little more complicated than I expected."
Chapter 397: Overthinking
Even Tetsu no Sosuke struggled to explain what he had encountered inside Zenitsu Agatsuma's mind.
The Zenitsu Agatsuma with his eyes closed and a pair of golden eyes—was he a shadow in Zenitsu's heart, or truly another personality?
And what did he want?
Did he want Zenitsu Agatsuma to face everything bravely?
Or did he intend to shoulder it all himself, leaving Zenitsu Agatsuma cowering inside his inner world, never to emerge again?
Judging by how it had ended, everything seemed fine.
But was that really the final outcome?
What if it wasn't?
What if he had merely found another way to hide?
If Tetsu no Sosuke had left the moment the Golden-Eyed One told him to, would things still have turned out this way?
Questions of every kind crowded his mind, making his head hurt even more.
He shook his head. He could no longer think through something so complicated.
Nor did he intend to dwell on it later.
If the matter could end here, nothing would be better.
If not... perhaps one day Zenitsu Agatsuma would quietly become a different person...
There was still one thing he couldn't figure out.
Had Zenitsu grown? Or had another personality swallowed his original one?
Tetsu no