Thud!
Under Nagato's control, Murotsu knelt before Xuandou.
His clothes were in tatters, and with blood dripping from him and a cloth covering his blinded right eye socket, he looked utterly wretched.
Yet he still held his head high. No matter how much force Nagato applied, he could not push it down. Helpless, Nagato could only let him kneel before Xuandou with his head raised.
"Xuandou, how should we deal with this man?" Nagato asked.
"This man..."
Xuandou raised an eyebrow and looked down at Murotsu, who was bound tightly by the bright golden chains of the Adamantine Sealing Chains, before turning his gaze toward the raised platform.
Thick gray concrete covered the walls on all four sides, with crisscrossing metal pipes tangled around them. On a raised platform near the east side stood an enormous stone tablet.
Three prohibitions were inscribed on it:
No leaking secrets, no infighting, no Uchiha.
Judging by the fresh marks on it, it was clearly the work of Murotsu and his two companions.
"Heaven is not on my side, heaven is not on my side... what can be done..."
Holding his neck stiff under Xuandou's scrutiny, Murotsu gritted his teeth and forced the words out one by one.
What a humiliation!
It was truly too humiliating!
He had never imagined this.
One moment, he had been fantasizing about reaching the pinnacle of his life and realizing his dreams.
The next, Xuandou and Nagato had suddenly descended upon him, and he had become a prisoner in a cage, his life and death in someone else's hands.
The gulf was so vast.
Even with Murotsu's wealth of life experience, he found it somewhat hard to accept.
His grand undertaking, his ambitions and desires-overnight, it had all come to nothing.
"Heaven is not on your side?"
Xuandou