"Whoosh."
A golden light shot straight into the sky, bathing everything around it in an endless golden glow for a brief moment.
"What is that? How did that thing fly into the sky?"
Everyone watched as something that had not been there in the previously flat area suddenly appeared, radiating golden light. It looked remarkably like a person covered from head to toe in gold.
Everyone present loved money, even that dog of an emperor. Of course, what they wanted to know even more was whether that human-shaped gold could be sold for money and whether they could get their hands on it.
"Golden Body?" Uchiha Hiko looked at the strange thing that had suddenly emerged from the area where the sacred beasts had been kept. It seemed incredibly powerful. If he had to face it alone, he would have absolutely no chance of winning.
But even if it had become a Golden Body, impervious to blades and spears, so what? Before him, it was nothing but a vegetable. He could slice it whenever he wanted and chop it to pieces whenever he pleased.
You weren't some enlightened monk, yet you wanted to put on another layer of skin and pretend.
Didn't you know that pretending required capital? You were already trash, yet you still wanted to act like trash. Was your brain full of water? Did you want to stew yourself before stir-frying yourself?
"Ahem. Second Prince, your Golden Body is too dazzling. Could you put it away?" Uchiha Hiko blurted it out as though he had prepared the line long ago.
Those who had wanted to rush over and snatch the human-shaped gold were all stunned. That glittering golden figure before them was actually—
"The Second Prince? How is that possible? Wasn't he already dead?"
"You idiot. The