"What good is experience?" Belaque said to Uchiha Madara with a smile. "Experience can keep you warm. All those years of experience of yours, apart from producing a few ventriloquist snakes, what use have they been?"
"..." Uchiha Madara said speechlessly, "Those ventriloquist snakes really were just an accident. I think it was actually because the sapling wasn't tall enough, so the flame couldn't attract more creatures."
"Fine, fine, just keep explaining. When you actually manage to lure over some animals, then I'll believe you have plenty of experience," Belaque said with a smile. "Little Madara."
Although the two were still high in the air, wrapped in thick clothes, they now felt as warm as spring.
"Going back and forth like this really feels like two different worlds," Uchiha Madara said with a smile. "Warm. This is genuinely warm."
"So we shouldn't have believed Kaguolet back then. If we'd dressed this warmly in Red Rock City, this whole journey would've been a sightseeing trip. Instead, we nearly froze to death halfway here," Belaque said helplessly.
"You can't really blame Kaguolet for that. When he came here, Frost Autumn City really wasn't that cold. Didn't the guards say that Frost Autumn City only started getting colder and colder after Kaguolet left?" Uchiha Madara said with a smile.
"It definitely has something to do with him," Belaque said.
"Now you're wronging him a little," Uchiha Madara said. "It's a matter of the natural environment. This isn't something one person can change. Do you know how tiny people are in the face of nature?"
"That's because you don't understand this world," Belaque said to Uchiha Madara with a smile. "The Elzeran Continent is far larger than you imagine, and far more complicated—strange and fantastical."
"Other than the mandatory council held once every four