"...I'm not like those people who are always saying they love you. As long as you see me as your own child, my wish has already come true. As for your genes, having them would be a blessing, but I wouldn't regret not having them..."
Junlin told Yanbai about his experience.
Those few words laid bare Uchiha Itachi's grievances and his strange code of conduct.
Through his inscrutable behavior, Uchiha Itachi had used Junlin to convey his position to Yanbai.
Though baffled, Yanbai could only marvel inwardly, That's just like you, Itachi!
And that was that.
Yanbai had never expected much from Uchiha Itachi in the first place.
In Yanbai's view, receiving outside help was good fortune; not receiving any was perfectly normal.
Yanbai never expected anyone to go out of their way to do anything for him.
If someone voluntarily did something for him, Yanbai regarded it as a surprise and a gift. He would treasure that effort and naturally repay it.
Just as Junlin had said, he was not a "good" child.
Of course Yanbai knew what Junlin had done over the years.
A good child in the conventional sense would never kill his father, but Junlin had.
Not only that, Junlin was two-faced, lied frequently, bullied Senju Nawaki behind people's backs, and had done plenty of things that could never see the light of day.
Junlin was a vicious child whose mouth was full of lies.
He was only a good child to Yanbai.
"To me, you're my whole world." Junlin had no idea what associations his words had stirred in Yanbai. He kept saying what he wanted to say. "I can only be happy when you're happy. If you suffer, I'll suffer too. That's why I rejected Uchiha Itachi's proposal, but I still want to help