But after Mei Terumi blurted those words out, she saw Hatake Ziyan glance at her and regretted getting so worked up! Fortunately, Hatake Ziyan did not hold it against her!
"Tell me what you think." Hatake Ziyan ignored Mei Terumi and addressed Kimimaro.
Kimimaro stared blankly at his hand and said in a daze, "You're right. I'm no match for her yet. But my clansmen are all dead. As a weapon, there's no meaning left in my life!"
After speaking, Kimimaro suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, dropped to his knees, and gasped for breath!
Watching Kimimaro cough up blood, Hatake Ziyan knew his bloodline disease had flared up! Green light shone from his hand again as he placed it on Kimimaro's chest, temporarily bringing the flare-up under control!
"You're still very young. You don't really understand what it means to live. Before, your reason for living was that your clansmen needed a weapon. But from now on, you'll have to find that meaning yourself. You don't live for other people! You live for whatever you believe is meaningful!" Hatake Ziyan said softly after stabilizing his condition.
Kimimaro might have been a genius, but no one had ever treated him like a normal person. The Kaguya Clan had seen him as nothing but a weapon. When they needed him to fight, they let him out. When there was no fighting to be done, they locked him in a cage in the Cave!
So for Kimimaro, the meaning of his life over the past nine years had been to serve as a weapon that killed the Kaguya Clan's enemies! Now that his clansmen were gone, his reason for living had vanished, and he had lost the desire to live as well!
Kimimaro still looked dazed, unable to grasp what Hatake