"Could you be a little more cheerful?" Uchiha Madara said speechlessly. "The Hashirama Cells I put in your body are extremely precious. If you just die like this, all my effort will have been wasted."
"I won't die that easily." Xiao Sang smiled. "Freedom feels so good. I want to walk around on land."
"That works too, but I can't go with you. I have my own things to do," Uchiha Madara said.
"You want to find the Wish Horn, but how do you know it's definitely in the Dark Sea? What if it's somewhere else? The Dark Sea is so vast—when will you ever reach the end?" Xiao Sang asked.
"I don't know. I want to visit the merfolk territory. I heard a merfolk elder mention before that there are many treasures in the Dark Sea," Uchiha Madara said.
"Merfolk..." Upon hearing Uchiha Madara mention those words, Xiao Sang's body trembled involuntarily.
Uchiha Madara looked at her and smiled. "What is it? From the look of you, it seems you have some history with the merfolk."
"I became this neither-human-nor-ghost thing entirely because of the merfolk," Xiao Sang said.
"Weren't you being held hostage by that giant fish just now? What does that have to do with the merfolk?" Uchiha Madara asked.
"That stupid fish only used me to catch prey. The only ones who would crush every bone in my body are the merfolk." Xiao Sang looked out over the surface of the Dark Sea.
"Was there some reason for that?" Uchiha Madara asked. "Why did they need a human body as bait instead of the body of something else?"
"Because of their twisted tastes. Don't you know how many atrocities the merfolk have committed on the continent? Our race, together with many races from the west, has