"De...?... Dead?" Dales Yi looked at Uchiha Madara and asked.
Uchiha Madara nodded, though he could hardly believe it himself. "That's right. It's dead."
"That shouldn't be possible. How did something so formidable suddenly die?" Dales Yi asked Uchiha Madara.
"How would I know? Why would something so formidable suddenly die?" Uchiha Madara turned to Helunaixing and asked.
What Uchiha Madara found rather amusing was that Helunaixing actually had his eyes closed.
Yet precisely because Helunaixing's eyes were closed, the unsettling feeling Uchiha Madara had felt whenever he looked at him was gone.
Uchiha Madara wondered to himself. So it really was a problem with his eyes.
"Hey, old man," Dales Yi said to Helunaixing, "the most dangerous thing you mentioned couldn't have been that spider just now, could it?"
"Definitely not, right? That thing was way too weak. Uncle just burned it to death with a single blast of fire," Dales Yi said.
"It's dead?" Only after hearing Dales Yi's words did Helunaixing begin to slowly open his eyes, trembling.
The giant spider from before had now been reduced to a pile of ashes.
Helunaixing let out a breath and said, "You two really are dependable. It was a good thing I had you come along with me. Otherwise, I might have died in this cave by myself."
"..."
Dales Yi was utterly speechless after hearing Helunaixing's words.
"Why? Wasn't it just a spider? Sure, it was a little bigger than the spiders we'd seen before, but it didn't seem to have any fighting ability at all," Dales Yi said.
"You don't understand," Helunaixing said.
"You have no idea how terrifying that thing is," Helunaixing said.
"It's a terror that comes from the depths of one's heart. It's a creature's instinct, something that can't be avoided," Helunaixing said as