123. At End of Space-Time

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"What is it?" Sora asked, his upper body bare.

"Your body..."

Sora quickly covered his body by putting on his jacket. "You are a predator, aren't you?" Sora accused.

"Wait, what?" Zashiki asked, confused.

"I was told by baa-chan that there are some evil people who prey on kids." This prompted the other three to take a few steps back and be on guard.

They hadn't thought that the evil spirit who liked to prank others was a predator. Then again, it kind of made sense.

He probably liked to prank kids and watch them... This was disgusting.

"Wait, wait, I am innocent!" The shadow quickly said, raising his hands in surrender under four pairs of eyes filled with disgust and contempt.

"That's what criminals say," Ino commented.

"Wait, I was just curious about his acorn," the shadow tried to diffuse the situation, but it remarkably backfired.

Sora's face went pale, and he hid behind the trio, who were looking at the shadow on the wall like they were seeing the most disgusting person in the world.

"You really are disgusting!" If Ino could see his real body, she would have kicked him in the nuts.

"Wait! Wait! I mean the acorn on his neck. You kids really have wild imaginations." Zashiki hadn't been this misunderstood in a long time.

Wait, does that mean he had been misunderstood like this for some reason before?

( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

"Oh, this? You should have been specific from the start," Sora deadpanned while holding the acorn locket he was wearing.

"Yes, that. Where did you get it from?"

"This was given to me by my summons, to whom I am contracted." {A/n- Reference to chapter 51}

"HAHAHAHA!" The shadow started laughing loudly, almost in mad glee.

"Has he gone insane?" Ino asked while taking some steps back. The others mimicked her.

This sealed guy was really acting sus in the last few minutes.

"Neko-chan, you have the chakra to transport us, right?" Sora whispered to the cat lying on top of his head.

No, she was giving the honour of being her sitting place to Sora.

Sora really was lucky.

The cat lifted her paw and tapped it twice on Sora's head.

She was ready to transport them back to their time.

In the last few days, apart from recovering her chakra, she had transported them three times since she got the orb, so she had already deciphered how spatial-temporal travel works and how she can specify the time.

After all, she was... the Honoured one.

It was natural for her to achieve it.

Sora looked at the others. "Should we leave? I don't think freeing this old spirit seems safe... for the world," he said in a low tone.

"I agree with Sora-chan. We should leave immediately," Ino quickly agreed.

Choji also nodded quickly.

Shikamaru decided it would be better to leave than to try freeing this suspicious spirit. Plus, it's not like they could break the seal anyway.

So, Shikamaru nodded.

"I wonder if it's fate that you guys came," a voice said from Sora's shoulder, prompting him to be startled.

Everyone froze.

What the hell? Had his self-awareness or sensing skills deteriorated somehow?

He slowly turned his head to the left to see a... squirrel sitting on his right shoulder?

What the hell?

First was the Uchiha Young Master-like Neko-chan who had snuck up on him, and now a squirrel whose voice sounded just like the sus Zashiki Warashi.

Wait, what? His voice was the same as Zashiki Warashi's.

"Wait, is this your clone?" Sora asked. Would this guy try to stop them from transporting? Would they have to defeat his clone? What if more clones came?

What if this guy created another golem that was better than the previous one? The Rasengan didn't even scratch the last one.

Sora shivered at the prospect of fighting another abomination like that.

"Nah, this is my real body."

"What? How did you get free from the seal?" Shikamaru asked, though his mind was already racing, hypothesizing multiple possibilities.

"Why are you in a squirrel form?" Ino asked.

"Do you like ramen or barbeque?" Choji asked seriously.

Everyone paused and looked at him.

Just... what did he ask?

Can't he understand that this is not the time to ask such questions?

Also, why is he asking what food a squirrel likes? Squirrels don't eat human food.

Has only eating canned and packaged food finally affected Choji by lowering his IQ?

Sora was bewildered. Would Choji ask such a question if he were in a normal state?

"I like barbeque with special sauce," the squirrel replied.

Wait, what?

The squirrel likes to eat human food?

Have squirrels advanced that much?

From eating grass and related things to eating meat and human food?

'Is this what the old man from the future in the abandoned futuristic society said about humans' creations causing the destruction of their own civilization?' Sora questioned himself.

"Hehe, you are a man of culture," Choji said, giving a thumbs-up and flashing his teeth, which were sparkling for some reason.

Sora and the other two rubbed their eyes.

They were seeing Choji in a green spandex with bushy brows for some reason.

And with a sunset behind him.

They tried to dispel the 'genjutsu,' but it seemed like a tough one.

Either that, or they were going insane.

"My real form is that of a squirrel. I escaped due to Reverse Summoning, along with some seal formula I created. But you guys wouldn't understand it at your current level, even if I tried to explain it to you," the squirrel said while rubbing his chin, pretending to say wise words.

"Wait, how did you Reverse Summon? Wait, are you related to Prank Land?" Sora asked.

"Junior, bow before me. I am the ancestor and founder of Prank Land!" the squirrel said in a deep voice, giving the impression that he was somehow wise and old.

Sora actually dropped down and did a Dogeza, his head touching the ground. The squirrel had already jumped from his shoulder and was now standing in front of his head on the ground.

"Senior, please teach me your ways!" Sora enthusiastically said for some reason.

"Junior, you are truly respectful. Lift your head. I acknowledge you as the contractor of Prank Land."

Sora lifted his head, his eyes literally sparkling with stars.

"Senior, can you teach me how you created those seals that somehow gave the defensive ability not to get a scratch from an A-rank jutsu?"

"Hoho, I intentionally put in some parts that could be disabled by someone experienced in Fuinjutsu. You have a good foundation. I will teach you Fuinjutsu. One day, you'll be able to do that and create your own dungeon to prank people," the Ancestor Squirrel giggled.

Sora also giggled.

"Hahaha."

"HAHAHAHA."

Ino-Shika-Cho sweatdropped.

Why were they even surprised that this guy was the ancestor of Sora's contracted animals?

It almost seemed obvious.

They facepalmed at that.

"Anyway... Senior, how did you get sealed here in this place? Who created that? Also, where exactly are we?" Shikamaru was confused about how to address him, so he just mimicked Sora.

This guy was definitely old, and prankster or not, he was definitely S-rank or above.

He was dismissing the golems like they weren't worth mentioning.

Also, the seals Shikamaru saw here and there on the walls... he had deduced:

This squirrel was at least a Grandmaster, or most likely *beyond* Grandmaster, in Fuinjutsu.

Those figures were said to be legendary for achieving that rank.

Even if it was speculation, he didn't want to offend this guy.

"Hohoh, I pranked the wrong person in the hot springs. She sealed me here. This place is what we call an outer dimension or more like the dimension where time isn't constant. Well, this place should be the end of time."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked by this revelation.

They were at the end of space-time? Like, for real?

That seemed a little far-fetched.

"Let me finish my words. Young people really are impatient," the ancestor reprimanded them.

"This is the end of time in a separate dimension."

"Wait, so there are separate dimensions? That's so cool!"

"Indeed. Since time immemorial, we only had one dimension. But over time, the main dimension broke into multiple parts. This is one part. You guys are lucky that you have this neko," he said, looking at the neko who was lying on Sora's head and watching him curiously.

"She seems to have fully integrated with the orb, which granted her powers of space-time transportation. This should be probabilistically impossible."

"What do you mean?" Sora asked, looking at the Neko.

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A/n- Lol, The Chinese was Strong in this one, what do you think JUNIORS?

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