Yuliu immediately became somewhat dazed.
Shinnō seemed heartbroken as he said, "Fine, fine. Since the children have already grown up..."
"Then there are some things they should be told."
As he spoke, he gradually began recounting the past.
This should have been a very beautiful hope, but here, in this atmosphere, with what was being said...
It made outsiders listening feel chills run through their entire bodies, their hearts twisting in turmoil.
But Yuliu, who was at the center of it all, seemed to have already fallen into another world, another dimension.
What she was enduring was no longer something an ordinary person could bear. The fact that she had not dropped dead on the spot was already proof of considerable strength.
She felt that after losing her parents, her entire being had fallen off a cliff.
But then Shinnō had pulled her out of that cliff, and his meticulous care had made her feel as though she had soared straight into the sky.
She flew higher and higher, but when she had risen so high, that great hand which had once pulled her out of the cliff...
Ruthlessly slapped her straight back down.
And this time, what lay below was no longer a cliff, but a bottomless abyss.
Destroying someone was truly easy—shower them with care, treat them as your whole world, balance severity with tenderness...
After patiently wearing them down over a long period, once they had come to see you as everything...
That was when you struck, as quickly as possible, and destroyed everything they had.
Shinnō had undoubtedly done exactly that.
Naruto seemed to realize something as well and began trying to comfort Yuliu, but at this moment, Yuliu could no longer hear anything.
She did not cry or make a fuss. She merely stood there