Kelana had thought she would need to spend a long time persuading him, but she had never expected that a single sentence would change the outcome.
"Let's go. Let's see what delicious food your family has," Uchiha Madara said.
"My mom knows that tomorrow is the competition, so she definitely won't let me leave the house. She's afraid I'll run off to the Royal City, so I told her that I'd found myself a man," Kelana said.
"That way, my mom won't have anything to worry about. I'll be free to do whatever I want tomorrow, and it'll also make things easier for the two of us. Most importantly, you'll get a free meal. Can you think of a better deal than that?" Kelana said with a smile.
After hearing Kelana's words, Uchiha Madara said speechlessly, "Do you think your mom will believe that? The age gap between us is far too big. She'll definitely think you just found someone at random to brush her off."
"Who do you think knows me better—you, or my mom?" Kelana said.
"I just think our terrible acting will definitely be seen through by her. That'll be incredibly awkward, and I won't be taking responsibility when that happens," Uchiha Madara said. This was what worried him most.
Uchiha Madara looked at Kelana beside him. She was young and beautiful, so she surely had no shortage of admirers.
And then Kelana suddenly brought such an old man home. Wouldn't her mother be suspicious at all?
Uchiha Madara felt that not only Kelana's mother—even an ordinary passerby would question what was really going on.
However, Uchiha Madara also knew that Kelana was intelligent. Since she had proposed this method, she must have believed it would work. Still, he did not understand why her mother would believe