"It seemed that no matter where you lived, life wasn't easy. Being human was still more comfortable," Belaque said.
"That was for sure. The harsher the environment, the fiercer the competition, because there was less food here. If you didn't work hard, you would become someone else's food," Uchiha Madara said.
"But this also gave us a warning. There should be something dangerous nearby, right?" Uchiha Madara said to Belaque with a smile. "We should be more careful too. Otherwise, we might end up like this big fellow."
"I really don't like this kind of environment at all. It's so cold that I don't even want to move, much less fight," Belaque said.
"Leave all the fighting to me. When have you ever fought yourself? Haven't you been directing me the whole way?" Uchiha Madara said.
"You can't call that directing. We're on the same team to begin with, and protecting girls is a responsibility men should fulfill," Belaque said with a smile.
The two slowly made their way forward through the freezing wind. Along the way, the skeletons of large animals kept appearing, and they were all similar to the one Uchiha Madara had seen earlier.
Clearly, these skeletons had not come from animals dying naturally. Uchiha Madara began to feel that something dangerous existed on this freezing snow mountain.
"I think something's wrong. The farther we go, the more skeletons there are ahead. It feels like we've entered some sort of graveyard," Belaque said to Uchiha Madara.
"It did seem that we had come to an unbelievable place. That only showed that the two of us really weren't very lucky," Uchiha Madara said.
"Let's turn back now. I feel like it's not too late yet. Otherwise, something truly terrifying might appear," Belaque said.
"Isn't it a little too