"I'll make an opening," Uchiha Madara said with a smile. "You two, step back a little. We're about to go into the water."
Hearing Uchiha Madara's words, Carter Binda began taking off her clothes. Belaque followed Carter Binda's example and started removing her heavy garments as well.
"Do you need to take your clothes off?" Uchiha Madara asked the two of them.
"We're going underwater, of course we need to take them off," Carter Binda said. "I don't want to go down wearing such heavy clothes, and we'll need warm clothes again once we come back up, won't we?"
As Carter Binda removed her heavy clothing piece by piece, a graceful young girl's figure appeared before Uchiha Madara.
Belaque also took off her outer clothes, leaving only a thin layer on her body as she shivered in the frigid wind.
Uchiha Madara actually felt rather moved at that moment. He had never expected these two girls to make such a sacrifice for someone as unrelated to them as himself.
For all his years in the ninja world, he had always been a lone wanderer. Now that someone was helping him like this, Uchiha Madara suddenly felt deeply indebted to the two of them.
"What are you doing, Uncle?!" Carter Binda said indignantly to Uchiha Madara. "I've already stripped down like this, so what are you standing there for? Are you waiting for both of us to take everything off?"
"No, no," Uchiha Madara hurriedly said.
Uchiha Madara swiftly formed several hand seals. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique."
A massive fireball burst from Uchiha Madara's mouth. Golden flames instantly lit up the surroundings, so bright that even under the blazing sunlight, they made it impossible to see clearly.
"What is this?" Carter Binda no longer felt cold at all. Instead, she