Yanbai looked at Madara Uchiha, who lay flat on the grass with the pattern of Yanbai's Sharingan filling his eyes.
Yanbai took a wooden bottle he had prepared from his pocket and opened it.
A rich rose fragrance drifted out of the wooden bottle.
First, Yanbai brought the liquid in the bottle to Madara Uchiha's lips and let it drip into his mouth.
Then he poured some liquid into his palm and spread it generously over Madara Uchiha's right cheek, working his way down to his neck before continuing to several specific places farther down.
Before long, Yanbai had rubbed the fragrant liquid over almost all of Madara Uchiha's body.
Finally, Yanbai wiped his hands on the fabric over Madara Uchiha's chest as though it were a rag, leaving his clothes in just the right state of disarray.
Once he was done, Yanbai raised the wooden bottle and gulped down all the remaining liquid in one go.
After drinking it, Yanbai dug a hole nearby and buried the bottle.
With the bottle buried, Yanbai sat upright beside Madara Uchiha.
The bottle had contained rose hydrosol that Yanbai had specially made several years earlier. It was actually a skincare product, made from roses grown in the garden of the Senju Clan Compound.
That fragrance had practically become Yanbai's signature scent.
Earlier, at the cliff's edge, Yanbai had deliberately coated the soles of his feet with chakra and stood sideways against the cliff face.
Every time, Madara Uchiha greeted Yanbai in that same way.
Then Yanbai would seize the right moment to activate his Mangekyō Sharingan and draw Madara Uchiha into his dōjutsu space, an illusion so vivid it rivaled reality.
This was the dōjutsu of Yanbai's right eye, "Kaleidoscope of Moonlight."
In that dream, every sensation felt real, leaving the victim