"It is our honor to be of service to you, Holy Maiden," the city lord said.
"Let's go." Ci Enyiwu looked at Uchiha Madara and said, "The two of us are pressed for time. It's already late, and we might not even make it there before dawn."
"Let's go," Uchiha Madara said.
Uchiha Madara had not expected things to be resolved so cleanly. After wasting so much time earlier, it had been settled just like that.
But when Uchiha Madara thought about how all this trouble had been caused by Ci Enyiwu, he felt utterly speechless.
Uchiha Madara and Ci Enyiwu rode their magical beasts out of the country.
Along the way, Uchiha Madara looked at Ci Enyiwu and asked, "Were the things we encountered also destined to happen?"
"Of course," Ci Enyiwu said.
"As long as I am involved, everything will proceed according to its established course," Ci Enyiwu said.
"Then this matter..." Uchiha Madara thought for a moment before saying to Ci Enyiwu, "The destined outcome was that the two of us would leave today, wasn't it?"
"That's right," Ci Enyiwu said.
"Even without me, something else would have happened to make the two of us leave," Ci Enyiwu said with a smile. "I merely sped up the course of events."
"Sped up the course of events?" Uchiha Madara thought for a moment and said, "Aren't you an extremely stubborn person? How could you possibly speed things up?"
"As long as it does not affect future developments, it makes little difference whether the process is fast or slow," Ci Enyiwu said.
"So you allow events to progress, but you cannot accept them changing?" Uchiha Madara continued.
"That's right." Ci Enyiwu smiled. "Exactly."
"I see," Uchiha Madara said.
After hearing Ci Enyiwu's words, Uchiha Madara finally had a clearer