"I'm not afraid of being laughed at," Kenping Yuelai said.
"Let them think whatever they want. I don't care. I just need to live my own life," Kenping Yuelai said with a smile.
"You may have that mindset, but we're different," the old magician told Kenping Yuelai. "All these years, we magicians have never had a stain on our reputations."
"If word of this gets out, it will become the greatest stain on all of us," the old magician said.
"What does that matter?" Kenping Yuelai said with a smile. "I don't believe anyone in this world can complete every mission with one hundred percent success, especially when we were facing the legendary Ice Nine-Tails."
"I think the fact that we made it back alive is already quite impressive," Kenping Yuelai said.
Kenping Yuelai truly felt that although these people were all exceptionally powerful, they had been facing a high-level magical beast from the Elzeran Continent.
Though they might very well have succeeded if Uchiha Madara and the others had not interfered, Kenping Yuelai did not feel there was anything shameful about returning like this.
"You old magicians are already so old, yet you still care about so many things?" Kenping Yuelai said.
"You're already at the age of retirement anyway, so why care about pride?" Kenping Yuelai said to the old magician with a smile.
"You're still young. You can't understand," the old magician said.
"For old people like us, nothing is more important than our dignity. It is also the only thing people our age remain attached to," the old magician said earnestly to Kenping Yuelai.
"Maybe I'll understand what you mean once I get older," Kenping Yuelai said with a smile.
Kenping Yuelai thought it over. What had seemed like no big deal to him was actually