As soon as the woman finished speaking, the sea suddenly rippled. Uchiha Madara knew that the real master beneath the surface was about to appear.
A massive shadow instantly appeared beneath the sea's surface, followed by a huge black maw filled with fangs leaping out of the water.
The sea gradually returned to calm, as if nothing had happened. The giant fish was gone, the human woman was gone, and Uchiha Madara was gone as well.
A red dot slowly appeared beneath the still surface of the sea, then grew larger and larger.
"Fire Style, Great Fireball Technique!" A massive fireball burst out from the seabed. Floating up alongside it was the charred corpse of that giant fish.
Uchiha Madara held the woman in white and slowly walked onto his small boat.
The woman's boneless body lay sprawled across the boat like a puddle of water.
"Do you want to live or die?" Uchiha Madara asked, looking at the woman on the boat.
"Kill me. Thank you," the woman answered.
"That's not a very good idea." Uchiha Madara smiled. "I can give you a chance to live, but it won't last very long."
"I only seek death. I don't know how many years I've spent here, living a life worse than death. If you can kill me, I'll repay you in my next life," the woman said.
"I've always devoted myself to saving humanity, so that everyone can live in an era of peace and happiness. I've struggled toward that goal for many years," Uchiha Madara said.
The woman lay limp on the boat, unable to move her entire body. She could only look at Uchiha Madara with her eyes. "To me, the world of the living is nowhere near as happy as the world of the dead. If living