Chapter 458: Madara: Don’t learn this.

"I say, why are you staring at me all this time?"

"How strange... I clearly hid my aura as Master said, how did you find out that I was observing you?"

Madara stopped moving, folded his hands and leaned on the pickaxe, looking at Uchiha Hikaru with an indescribable expression, "Are you... serious?"

Uchiha Hikaru jumped down from the rock where he had been sitting, and walked slowly to Madara, "Of course, this trick obviously worked well before."

Ban's face twitched slightly, "You are so blatantly sitting there slacking off, who would ignore you?"

Uchiha Hikaru immediately pinched his waist, his attitude was so unreasonable and arrogant, "I'm not being lazy, I'm just practicing to follow you quietly."

"You don't need this kind of training!" Ban thrust the pickaxe in his hand forward unhappily, "If you want to be idle, then get to work."

"I do not want it."

"Then go away and don't disturb me while I'm working."

Uchiha Hikaru was not angry after being driven away. He just stood aside and looked at Madara's expression with a crooked posture. After a long while, he spoke softly, "Hey, Madara, you trusted..."

"No."

“…I haven’t even said who it is yet.”

"Aren't you just asking me if I ever trusted you? No."

Uchiha Hikaru was choked by Madara's words, "Why? Is it because I've always said I wanted to betray my clan?"

"...No, it has nothing to do with that. I just can't trust someone who doesn't have a sense of belonging." Madara stopped again and looked at Uchiha Hikaru without hesitation, "A person without a sense of belonging means that he lives aimlessly and has nothing to care about.

Such people, no matter what position they hold in the group, are uncertain factors that need to be monitored. As the future patriarch, I cannot and should not trust such people, regardless of whether it is you or not. "

Uchiha Hikaru blinked, "What will you do to me if I betray my clan in the future?"

"Go ahead, as long as you don't do anything that harms the clan, I won't have the energy to care about you."

"If I'm in danger later, can I come back for help?"

"No matter where you are, you are an Uchiha, this is an indisputable fact, so as long as I have the ability, as long as I hear news about you, I will help you even if you don't say it, but-"

Uchiha Hikaru looked at the tip of the pickaxe resting on his forehead. His pupils shrank slightly, but his expression did not change much. "...But?"

Madara's hand was still holding the pickaxe steadily, his dark eyes were calm, "However, if I knew that you had betrayed my brother, I would cut off your head with my own hands."

The other three people working there also stopped at some point, all staring intently at the two people who were talking.

Uchiha Fire Core hugged the Sealing Scroll tightly, looking very nervous, "Hey, hey, hey, I didn't notice it at first glance, why is the atmosphere so bad?"

"That's why I don't want to come..." Uchiha Baijie's face was full of unbearableness, "As long as Brother Ling is not here, all kinds of problems will probably arise in the team he leads - do you think we can knock these two out directly?"

"Bara should be fine..." Uchiha Qi's eyes fell on Uchiha Guang's wrist, and he began to mutter at a very fast speed, "But whether Uchiha Guang succeeds or fails, the consequences will be very bad - if she fails, a full-scale fight will break out, and if she succeeds, I don't know if the little thing in her hand will be able to break free from the illusion...

I'm so annoyed. Why hasn't Brother Ling come back yet? I just want to complete the mission honestly and smoothly. Can these two little guys take a good look at each other and calm down? "

The few people were not far away from each other, so Uchiha Guang naturally heard their conversation. She also understood that this was not a good time to attack... but she couldn't help it.

Whenever she saw Ling making plans for Ban wholeheartedly and Ban completely trusting Ling, she felt particularly tormented, and this torment reached its peak when she saw how Ling's peers trusted Ling.

She also wanted someone who could plan for her wholeheartedly, she also wanted to give her trust to someone, she didn't want to keep the heavy secret alone - so after her parents passed away one after another, she secretly told her friends about her pupil technique.

But her trust and entrustment were only met with betrayal and malice.

Uchiha Hikaru lowered his eyes, tilted his head slightly forward, and pressed against the sharp tip of the pickaxe. His voice was so soft that it was hard to tell, "...What if one day, the master wants to sacrifice you for the clan?"

"I am the future clan leader. If there really comes a day like that, I will take the initiative to do it even without my brother suggesting it..." Ban frowned and put away the pickaxe, "and my brother will not harm me."

"But what if?" Uchiha Hikaru suddenly raised his head, took a step forward, and approached Madara. There was no sign of retreat in his eyes, but his voice suddenly dropped, as if he was asking Madara, or talking to himself, "...But what if?"

"Then I won't blame my brother. A brother who makes that kind of decision will only feel more pain than me. Besides..." Madara still stood there, with no intention of backing down. "If something like that really happened, my brother must have chosen me because I'm stronger. This is the responsibility and duty of a strong man... Hmm?"

"Oh my, although I'm happy that you have such awareness, but it's better to trust your brother a little more, right? And Xiaoguang, how about you trust me as your master a little more?"

Uchiha Hikaru opened his eyes wide, looking at Madara whose hair was blown up and eyes were wide open because his cheeks were suddenly pinched from behind. He blinked, took a step back and lowered his eyes, "...No, I feel like I will be killed by my master."

Madara suppressed his heartbeat, sighed, and did not struggle, "Brother, is Turan back?"

"I was just leaving for a while, and you guys are already talking about such a heavy topic, huh?" Ling released his hands that were pinching Ban's cheeks and raised his hands to knock on the back of his head. "And what makes my brother most sad is that you actually let Xiaoguang trick you - how could I sacrifice you?"

Madara turned around, somewhat helplessly, "She said it was just a possibility, I just went along with her assumption..."

"No one can ever happen, no one can assume - I'm really sad that you miss me so much, I'm almost dying."

Ling's exaggerated words and actions successfully made the guilty Madara expressionless. He turned his head with a wooden face and looked at Uchiha Hikaru, who had returned to his usual mode of watching a play. He said in a hoarse voice, "Don't learn this."