Realizing this, the monkey dropped to its knees in agony, its mouth stretched wide as drool continuously dripped from it.
A hand slowly extended from the monkey's mouth.
Uchiha Madara actually crawled out of the monkey's mouth.
The monkey knelt on the ground, gasping heavily. Standing before it, Uchiha Madara said, "So, I'll be taking over this thing for you now."
The monkey said nothing. Uchiha Madara nodded, turned around, and walked into the strange building.
At that moment, Uchiha Madara's eyes returned to their normal color.
The monkey also turned back into a boy.
The boy looked around and realized that he was still in the room with the enormous heart hanging inside it.
Nothing around him had changed. The hole that had supposedly been blasted open was gone, and the human was still looking at him with a smile.
What shocked the boy most was that the bracer on the human's wrist was still perfectly intact.
"What happened?" the boy asked Uchiha Madara.
"I let you see a bit of reality," Uchiha Madara said with a smile. "Now the two of us can properly discuss this heart, can't we?"
The boy nodded blankly and asked Uchiha Madara, "What do you plan to do?"
"I was thinking, if you keep using something this good, won't you be ascending to heaven in just a few years?" Uchiha Madara said with a smile.
"That's no longer possible. This heart is already old. It doesn't have many years left either," the boy said.
"I see." Uchiha Madara smiled. "Then why do you still care so much about this heart?"
"What about the monkeys?" the boy asked Uchiha Madara. "Are the monkeys on this island still outside?"
Uchiha Madara nodded. "That's right. Everything you saw just now was genjutsu. Nothing has happened since