"Yeah, Uncle Madara, look how pitiful they are. Why did you drive them out of their home? What you did wasn't a good thing," Xing En said.
"Since when did you start speaking up for them?" Uchiha Madara said helplessly to Xing En. "There's actually a lot more to this. It can't be explained in just a sentence or two."
"That little island wasn't an island at all. It was a living being. You had been draining its life, and the longer it went on, the more you changed. You could have lived peacefully on that island," Uchiha Madara said.
"I gave you a choice back then," Uchiha Madara said.
"And I could tell that the island didn't have much life left to begin with. Even if I hadn't intervened, you would have come down from the island sooner or later. I merely hastened the process," Uchiha Madara said.
"And I think this was something that went against the laws of nature to begin with. Though it wasn't apparent at the time, it definitely wouldn't have ended well for you," Uchiha Madara said to the Monkey King.
"So our entire race ended up like this because of you. We became the toys of you humans. We became your slaves," the Monkey King said.
"But our luck isn't bad now. I ran into you here today, and you're even carrying so many things I want. Consider it your apology to me," the Monkey King said.
"I never intended to apologize to you. You were draining another being's life and disrupting the laws of nature. I don't think I did anything wrong," Uchiha Madara said with a smile.
"The past is the past. There's no need to determine who was right and who was wrong. What matters most is that I met