Demonic Illusion: Centered on Mom, with Relatives as the Radius~

Inside the dim, underground-cavern-like Sealing Space.

A sealing formation resembling an ancient altar stood in the center of the space.

Eight gigantic stone pillars towered around the altar.

Thick Adamantine Sealing Chains, each over a meter wide, extended from the pillars and connected to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox lying prone at the center of the altar.

A pitch-black sealing pillar, half as wide as its body in diameter, pierced through the middle of the Nine-Tails' lower back.

Eight chains locked it down from front and back, completely eliminating any possibility of escape.

The Nine-Tails seemed to have long grown accustomed to this environment.

Its front claws were folded before it, its head resting atop them, while steady breaths emerged from its beastly maw.

Its nine tails drooped across the ground behind it, and even the occasional flick produced bursts of whistling wind.

Tap~ tap~

Clear footsteps came from the passageway at the far end of the Sealing Space.

The Nine-Tails' ears twitched. Amid the clashing and scraping of chains, it slowly raised itself from the ground.

Its scarlet vertical pupils silently radiated bone-chilling malice.

"Yo~! Kurama, your living conditions have improved quite a bit!"

Yamanaka Kei's casual teasing voice rang out.

He still remembered the first time he had entered Kushina's Sealing Space.

The Nine-Tails had been bound atop a giant sphere formed from Sealing Technique, resembling Six Paths - Planetary Devastation.

Its front claws, hind legs, waist, abdomen, and all nine tails had been pierced by sealing pillars.

Chains extended from those sealing pillars, firmly binding every part of its body.

Forget lying down to sleep like it had just done—even moving a little had been extremely difficult.

It seemed that while Kushina and the Nine-Tails might still curse each other out, their relationship really had improved considerably.

Otherwise, the current Nine-Tails would probably still be playing bondage games on that sealing sphere.

"Heh~ Brat from the Yamanaka Clan, did you come here to get cursed at?"

Upon hearing Yamanaka Kei's voice, the Nine-Tails let out a mocking snort.

Its scarlet vertical pupils opened and closed, but the piercing malice from before was gone.

After lazily yawning, it found a comfortable position and lay back down on the Sealing Altar.

"Pretty confident, aren't you?"

Yamanaka Kei chuckled and kept walking.

As he gradually approached the altar, flames rapidly lit up throughout the Sealing Space, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

They also fully revealed the Nine-Tails' orange-red fur.

And its enormous, mountain-like body.

Name: Kurama

Occupation: Prisoner

Word Entries: Nine Great Demonic Powers (Red), Nine-Tailed Demon Fox (Purple), Chakra Key (Purple), Malice Perception (Purple), Hunting Battle Instinct (Blue), Fearless (Blue), Kura-Baa (White), Resentment (Gray)

Prisoner?

Poor little Nine-Tails.

Yamanaka Kei muttered inwardly as he raised his eyes to inspect the Nine-Tails' Word Entries.

With great interest, he began reading their descriptions one by one.

Nine Great Demonic Powers was the fundamental power that made the Nine-Tails the strongest chakra lifeform. It could provide chakra lifeforms with an immense amount of chakra and generate chakra infinitely. Even if it died, it could quickly revive.

Nine-Tailed Demon Fox was a special Word Entry born from humanity's fear. It could absorb large amounts of negative emotions, increase its intimidation, beguile people's hearts, and draw out the darkness within human hearts.

Chakra Key was the power that connected people to people, hearts to hearts. Put bluntly, it was a universal adapter—like in the Fourth Shinobi War, it could be used as a universal power bank.

Malice Perception identified good and evil and sensed thoughts and intentions. It was a special power distinct from the chakra system.

Hunting Battle Instinct enhanced combat ability, while Fearless increased courage and perseverance when fighting in adversity.

Kura-Baa...?

Kurama? Kura-Baa?!

Damn it!

What the hell was this?!

Yamanaka Kei's eye twitched violently, as though he had seen something filthy.

It cursed people with one mouth that was stronger than nine?

No, there was actually a Word Entry specifically for increasing cursing volume, proficiency, and vocabulary while reducing one's... one's fox-like image?

No wonder Kushina said she couldn't outcurse the Nine-Tails.

It had a Word Entry buff. What normal person in the Naruto World could withstand that?

Fuck!

His illusions were shattered!

So this was the kind of Kurama it was!

"Brat, say what you came to say and get lost if you've got nothing to say. Don't disturb this lord's rest!"

The Nine-Tails cast a sidelong glance at Yamanaka Kei, who was staring at it without speaking, and issued a vicious warning.

Its fierce gaze and saliva-strung fangs would have scared any ordinary person into fleeing on the spot.

Unfortunately, Yamanaka Kei was not frightened by its appearance at all.

Instead, his expression became... even harder to describe.

Kura-Baa.

It had really become a loudspeaker!

Its voice was much louder than before!

"Stupid fox, if you keep yapping, I'm going to beat you up!"

Only then did Kushina emerge from the Sealing Space's passageway. She waved her little fists and threatened the Nine-Tails in return.

"Heh~ Drink less, eat more. What are you, some old widow?"

The Nine-Tails curled its lips, its eyes full of contempt.

Its fox face vividly demonstrated what mockery was, and what a truly punchable face looked like.

Kushina's cheeks reddened in fury. The golden Sealing Chains formed from Adamantine Sealing Chains behind her were poised to strike.

She looked ready to attack at any moment.

If she had come alone as usual, that would have been one thing. She could have simply cursed back.

But her boyfriend was right beside her. Did she not have any pride?

"...Don't be mad, don't be mad. I'll deal with him for you, okay~"

After realizing who the old widow referred to, Yamanaka Kei hurriedly comforted his little girlfriend, whose face had turned as red as a small tomato.

He knew better than anyone what status Mito Uzumaki held in Kushina's heart.

The Nine-Tails had opened with "old widow." Of course Kushina was going to blow her top.

But for someone like Yamanaka Kei, who had been through countless online battles and could emerge unscathed from most forums and message boards...

The Nine-Tails' attack power was honestly pretty average.

It was only a White Word Entry. How could it compare to the earth-shattering remarks of countless netizens from his previous life, who would stab you through the lungs, plunge a blade into your heart, then finish by slapping you twice?

"Brat, it's only been a few years, and you've gotten pretty arrogant! How are you planning to deal with this lord? Scratch my itch or massage my legs?"

The Nine-Tails drooped its eyelids, paying no attention whatsoever to Yamanaka Kei's words of comfort to Kushina.

Deal with it?

Did he think everyone was Hashirama Senju or Madara Uchiha?

"Demonic Illusion: Zuan Has-a-Mom Person!"

Yamanaka Kei clapped his hands together, activating the genjutsu without hand signs.

Countless gems of profanity from the internet in his previous life, mixed with all kinds of idioms and rhyming insults, flooded out from his Memory Palace and merged into the genjutsu.

With mothers at the center, relatives as the radius, fathers as support, and ancestors as the ultimate goal.

In a single instant.

The Nine-Tails' smug expression froze on its face as it began changing expressions at lightning speed.

Shock, confusion, disbelief, flushed embarrassment, blazing rage, eyes splitting with fury, murderous intent boiling over...

"ROAR~!"

The Nine-Tails let out an earth-shaking roar.

Its body rose upright from the center of the altar.

Using its vast reserves of chakra, it forcibly broke through Yamanaka Kei's self-created C-rank genjutsu.

Consumed by fury, it continuously tugged at the sealing stake piercing through its chest and abdomen and the many Sealing Chains binding it to the Sealing Altar.

In the end, Demonic Illusion: Zuan Has-a-Mom Person was merely a work Yamanaka Kei had created as a small experiment during his time at the Ninja School.

It had only simply borrowed the method of the D-rank Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique, which invoked an enemy's inner fears, and the principle of the D-rank Haze Clone Technique, which created multiple illusory enemies.

Multiple phantoms delivered cordial greetings to every painful spot in the target's heart, from every direction and without a single blind spot.

For such a crude C-rank genjutsu to affect a creature on the Nine-Tails' level at all was thanks to Yamanaka Kei's exceptionally powerful spiritual strength and his master-level Yin Release attainments.

If he truly wanted to control or defeat someone on the Nine-Tails' level with genjutsu...

Even with Yamanaka Kei's spiritual strength, he would have to use a powerful, sustained S-Rank Genjutsu!