"Running makes it even colder." Belaque shivered as he spoke. "This journey has really been rough. Good thing we're almost there now, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to keep going much longer."
"Once we get back, I'm going to tell the Hunter Association that they should leave this sort of letter-delivery job to the young people from now on. An old man like me, with these old arms and legs, really isn't suited for this kind of work," Belaque said.
"What happens if you don't complete a mission?" Uchiha Madara suddenly asked.
"The Hunter Association sounds like quite a formidable organization, and it has many influential experts in it. If people fail to complete their missions, what measures does the organization take against them?" Uchiha Madara continued.
"I honestly don't know," Belaque said with a smile. "I've been in the Hunter Association for a long time, but they've only assigned me missions a few times. I don't even get one mission a year, so I've always completed them easily enough."
"As for what happens if you fail to complete one, I've never tried it myself," Belaque said, smiling.
Uchiha Madara and Belaque raced onward together. Winterfort in the distance gradually grew larger before their eyes, and at that moment, both of them knew that what they had longed for most over these past few days was about to arrive.
"Our good days are about to come at last," Belaque said to Uchiha Madara with a grin.
"It's only temporary. Think about it—although we're about to reach Winterfort, how long can we stay here? Once we finish what we came to do, we'll have to head back," Uchiha Madara said with a smile.
"Unless you plan to stay in Winterfort forever and never go back. Only then can you