Tobirama Senju was complaining that he had asked a question without thinking, only for Yanbai to drag him into a dōjutsu space and force him through nine-year compulsory education.
Whenever he studied until hunger struck, he would be killed, revived, and made to keep studying...
Madara Uchiha wanted to laugh, but his face remained habitually expressionless.
As he spoke, Tobirama Senju seemed to recall something too painful to revisit. He covered his forehead with one hand. "Don't tell me you went through that too?"
By now, Madara Uchiha's hands had completely relaxed. He raised his eyes and said, "That knowledge was only a small part of it."
"I knew it..." Tobirama Senju said glumly.
Madara Uchiha gazed at the bright yellow tea before him without a word.
In truth, Madara Uchiha had indeed received that knowledge, but it had not been the only thing he received, so he was not as dejected as Tobirama Senju.
Then Tobirama Senju abruptly changed the subject. "So you must know, right? What my little sister wants to do?"
Madara Uchiha suddenly stood up. "If you were asking about the dōjutsu, we've finished discussing it. I still have matters to attend to at my clan grounds, so I'll take my leave."
"No, Madara." Tobirama Senju's gaze grew sinister. "You must know something, don't you?"
Madara Uchiha took a few steps toward the door, then suddenly turned his face back and said quietly, "Protect Konoha well, Second Brother..."
At those words, Tobirama Senju shot to his feet with a dark expression, only to see Madara Uchiha vanish on the spot without giving him another chance to ask.
Tobirama Senju thought grimly that Madara seemed to have grown stronger again.
At dusk that day, Yanbai treated Mu as promised and obtained "Dustless Bewildering Cover" by touching him,