"What did you say?"
"Pride?"
The moment Uchiha Madara finished speaking, Uchiha Yue suddenly laughed.
He laughed disdainfully.
If the Uchiha Madara standing before Uchiha Yue had been the Madara of old—the one hiding behind Kirigakure and using the Shinobi World as a chessboard—then Uchiha Yue would certainly have agreed with those words.
But look at Uchiha Madara now. He was nothing but a dog!
That guy's lapdog!
Ever since Uchiha Madara had been revived and defected to that guy, there had been no point in him talking about pride. You, Uchiha Madara, were already someone else's lapdog, yet you were talking about pride in front of me? It was utterly laughable. The reason you wanted to break free from those puppet strings was simply because ambition still remained in your heart!
Thus, the one who understood Uchiha Madara's heart best was undoubtedly the Uchiha Yue who laughed so brazenly.
And as Uchiha Yue laughed without restraint, as though afraid that Uchiha Yue's eyes could see through his innermost thoughts, Uchiha Madara actually turned his head away, unable even to meet Uchiha Yue's gaze.
Then—
Just as Uchiha Madara let out a deep sigh, feeling that he had utterly humiliated himself before Uchiha Yue...
Suddenly!
Several Chakra Threads shot out from Uchiha Yue's palm.
Those Chakra Threads connected respectively to Uchiha Madara's limbs, head, and torso. Gradually, as the number of Chakra Threads increased, Uchiha Madara discovered that every joint in his body, even every acupoint within his chakra pathways, had fallen under the control of Uchiha Yue's Chakra Threads.
As for whether Uchiha Yue bore any hostility, Uchiha Madara could tell that he did not.
And as Uchiha Yue laid the Chakra Threads over Uchiha Madara's body with meaningful intent, Uchiha Madara soon heard Uchiha Yue say pointedly, "Uchiha