Uchiha Itachi finished writing down the information he had just obtained, then immediately burned the crumpled paper.
Yanbai fell silent.
Madara Uchiha stared blankly at the paper as it turned to ash.
None of them spoke.
When Uchiha Itachi said he had something important to tell Yanbai, the three children, including Junlin and Silver Moon, had left with Shikaku Nara.
Only Yanbai and the other two remained in the Inner Room.
But once the note had burned completely to ash, Uchiha Itachi dared not say another word, while Madara Uchiha looked around nervously.
Yanbai had already shown Madara Uchiha so many things.
Yet only today had the few words Uchiha Itachi revealed allowed Madara Uchiha to see the whole truth.
So... they were inside a "box."
So... they were all "two-dimensional characters."
So... gender wasn't the only reason Yanbai refused to marry him. There was an even greater gulf between them.
When he first learned the truth, Madara Uchiha had been furious. He was enraged that the shameless old woman actually coveted Yanbai. But after his anger subsided and reason returned, all Madara Uchiha felt was despair.
Madara Uchiha finally understood why Yanbai always said, "The Old Woman will snoop on our private lives."
Because "the Old Woman's eyes were everywhere."
Even now, Madara Uchiha felt unseen eyes watching them.
Having encountered modern technology and game worlds through Yanbai, Madara Uchiha now understood exactly where Yanbai's concerns came from.
The entire Shinobi World was like a "box," and they truly were NPCs inside it.
Players existed outside the "box," toying with them like dolls, while they could do nothing about it. Unable to escape the world inside the "box," they could only have their lives and deaths dictated by others.
Even if a player's "incarnation" died inside the "box," the