"You're more outstanding than Yugito! But Tailed Beasts aren't so easily tamed. This time, you won. You may freely use the power I leaked out. This is the reward you deserve!" Cat Matatabi closed her eyes, and the consciousness space once again shifted from dimness into darkness.
When Kagetsu's consciousness returned from the mental prison sealing the Tailed Beast to his own body, he felt the blue flames wrapped around him become much gentler. As they approached him, even their burning heat actively subsided.
They were no longer violent and uncontrollable. Instead, they had become part of Kagetsu's will, moving as easily as his own limbs.
"Did you succeed?" Seeing Kagetsu emerge from within the Tailed Beast Cloak, his eyes once more clear and calm, Orochimaru stepped forward and asked tentatively.
"How should I put it? I don't know if this counts as success." Kagetsu felt agonizing pain throughout his body, as though he had been struck by some enormous beast. Yet his mind remained exceptionally clear.
Looking at Orochimaru as he approached, Kagetsu said uncertainly, "I can now use the Two-Tails' Chakra, and I can use the Tailed Beast Cloak form. But this is a one-shot deal.
"The Two-Tails hasn't accepted me, and I haven't reached an understanding with it. It's more like I used a trick and took a detour to achieve this result."
"A trick?" Orochimaru was taken aback. There was a trick to this kind of life-or-death battle of consciousness?
"It wasn't Uzumaki Mito's dominant suppression, nor was it the partnership model you mentioned, Orochimaru Sensei—the possible taming method used by Kumogakure, peacefully coexisting with a Tailed Beast.
"It's more like I stripped away its authority over this portion of the Chakra it leaked out. I forcibly transferred control over that Chakra from its hands to