"This was nothing like the big fluffy tiger I imagined."
"You don't want to eat it? Well, now's your chance. Take a look—doesn't this big tiger suit your appetite perfectly?" Belaque said to Uchiha Madara with a gleeful, gloating expression.
Uchiha Madara looked at the white tiger before him, its entire body made of ice, and said speechlessly, "If I wanted to eat ice, I could just dig up a mouthful from the ground. What is this? Why are all the creatures in your world like this?"
"This is Winterfort's specialty. It's called an ice tiger, and its body is entirely made of ice. I've heard its heart has extremely high medicinal value, but since it can only be found in Winterfort, it's very rare. If we can dig out its heart, that'll be another sizable income," Belaque said with a smile.
"Can you stop connecting everything to your income?" Uchiha Madara said helplessly. "Since it isn't edible, let's let it go. The two of us have killed plenty of creatures along the way."
"Letting this big tiger go now would count as earning the two of us a little virtue," Uchiha Madara said to Belaque.
So, faced with the big tiger blocking their path, neither Uchiha Madara nor Belaque made a move. Instead, they smiled and took a slight detour around it.
The ice tiger was baffled. These two people had seen it, yet they were neither afraid nor running away. They simply walked around it.
The tiger felt that this was a provocation. No matter what, it had to teach these two a lesson.
So the tiger let out a roar, then leaped directly in front of them in a single bound, blocking Uchiha Madara and Belaque's path.
"You wanted to earn some virtue by sparing this ice