He said, "All right, now that we've reached the tallest tower in our entire village, and Big Brother Niu, you've seen for yourself that Master Roshi isn't here at all, shouldn't you be able to admit defeat gracefully?"
Hearing Uchiha Hikaru's words, the Bull Demon King finally came back to his senses. He had laughed so hard he could barely catch his breath, but after Uchiha Hikaru finished speaking, he remembered what he had come here for.
After all, his master had been missing for so long, and Uchiha Hikaru had invited them here to solve a problem, not create one.
If his master had really caused some kind of trouble for Uchiha Hikaru in his village, then he would bear a grave sin.
So at this moment, he took the important matter of finding his master even more seriously.
Moreover, Uchiha Hikaru had just looked around the entire tower, and he truly had not seen any sign of Master Roshi.
Originally, Uchiha Hikaru had been quite certain that he knew where Master Roshi was. But when he heard the Bull Demon King solemnly insist that his master had to be in the tallest tower, he began to feel that perhaps his own judgment had been wrong.
So, to ensure he was right and to guard against any possibility, he had looked around first thing after arriving.
Once he confirmed that Master Roshi was indeed nowhere to be seen, he finally relaxed. Though he knew that even if he lost the bet, the Bull Demon King, his best friend, would never just abandon him, and even if he did lose—
Uchiha Hikaru was sure that the Bull Demon King would still give him those shoes.
But even if the Bull Demon King simply gave him the shoes, could he really