Chapter 1279 Unknown Future
Moving back the hands of time for a bit, Ichibei opened his eyes and he never felt better than before.
More importantly, he's now seeing the world differently than before. Right now, he's being bombarded with various sights that he's not used to, "Incredible..." Ichibei muttered while trying to make out what he was seeing.
"Past, present, and the branching future... So this is what he's seeing." Ichibei marveled and tried to move around. It was then he found out that he could move at will at any of these sights. He was now able to escape the shackles of time even if it was just inside his consciousness.
Even though he's deep within the earth, he feels extremely liberated. However, this feeling of liberation didn't last long as he also noticed a weakness in his 'vision'.
All he could see were those in his vicinity and he couldn't see anything specific about himself. It was at this moment he realized how 'he' in his previous life died and how Yhwach was defeated, 'All I could see is the waves that I caused and not how I caused those waves.'
Then again, another question popped out. If Yhwach was defeated by a part of himself, how did 'he' die specifically? Did 'he' die of a natural cause that 'he' couldn't see? Or did 'he' kill himself for one reason or another?
Although Ichibei considers himself as the being that died and became the foundation and land for Hell, he has no way of recovering 'his' previous memories.
Ichibei also understood that while he could never expand his 'vision' inwardly, he could still do something outwardly, 'I guess this is the limit of being incomplete... It doesn't matter. I'll eventually take everything back and the past will reveal itself.'
His sights then turned towards Kisuke and the women he summoned to fend off his legion. And now that Ichibei discovered how he was fueling his form, he didn't need to watch him any longer. And even after seeing how Kisuke summoned the part of his legion that his black sea devoured, it didn't bother Ichibei in the slightest because he knew exactly a future that would render everything he was doing right now useless.