Shamu looked up at the enormous cell gate.
He called out loudly, "Kurama!"
The Nine-Tails had not wanted to pay Shamu any more attention, but Shamu had directly called him by his real name!
Boom! Surging Chakra slammed into the gate with a violent crash. "Why do you know my name?"
Shamu said calmly, "Because I have seen the future."
"Seen the future?" Kurama's first reaction was disbelief, but the fact that Shamu had called out his name was undeniable.
"Do you want to know when you will be able to leave this place?" A faint curve tugged at Shamu's lips.
Seeing the ill-intentioned look on Shamu's face, Kurama could not help being curious. "When!?"
"It would take too long to explain. I'll use genjutsu to show you."
Now that Shamu had advanced to the Eternal Mangekyō, he could transmit certain images to others through genjutsu.
Then, Shamu showed Kurama the scenes of the Fourth Shinobi World War—of him being dragged out of Naruto's body and then devoured by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
"The Ten-Tails!" Kurama roared, his voice filled with unwillingness, fury, and fear.
Being trapped inside a Jinchuriki merely meant losing his freedom. But being absorbed by the Ten-Tails meant vanishing from this world completely.
"You are saying that the Fourth Shinobi World War will happen ten years from now."
Shamu nodded. "Do you remember the person who controlled you and destroyed Konoha back then?"
Huff... Kurama expelled a huge breath, a sign of his rage.
"That Uchiha!"
"Yes. That Uchiha clansman is the culprit behind the future Fourth Shinobi World War."
"The ultimate goal of the Fourth Shinobi World War is to feed all of you tailed beasts to the Ten-Tails, then activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, bring forth the God Tree, and destroy the