The Nine-Tails' ominous Chakra was like blades, slicing into Kushina Yukiei's body.
She coughed up blood as the black Chakra around her gradually emerged and spread.
She placed both hands on Naruto's stomach, while her body seemed to be frozen and sealed away by something terrifying.
"The Nine-Tails... is mine..."
Yet that immense power sent her flying once more.
—Huh?
Somewhere in the haze, a consciousness heard voices from outside.
They seemed to be coming from the other side.
"Naruto!"
"I'm sorry... but it's too late. The Nine-Tails is about to emerge."
The consciousness was muddled.
But—wasn't I already dead?
Then why did I still have consciousness now?
"Kushina!"
Was someone calling me?
No.
It was someone else.
That voice was not calling out to her.
"Do you know how much Naruto trusted you?! Why did you kill Naruto and release that monster?!"
That hoarse voice roared in fury.
"Naruto? My... child...?"
Kushina slowly opened her eyes.
Once she had fully awakened, she understood what had happened.
Someone seemed to have used some kind of technique to summon her dead self.
No, not herself.
Judging from the voices she had just heard, it seemed someone had wanted to summon the Nine-Tails.
"Mm..."
Kushina raised her hands.
Her hands were wrapped in the Nine-Tails' Chakra.
Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto's mother, the previous Jinchuriki.
Yet even she had never felt the Nine-Tails' power become so strange.
"It's as if, in this state, my existence is enveloping the Nine-Tails... I see. They wanted to summon the Nine-Tails, but summoned my soul from the Pure Land instead?"
This technique seemed somewhat similar to Impure World Reincarnation.
It used the summoned person's soul to envelop the sacrifice, transforming the sacrifice into the summoned person's form.
Though she did not know what had happened, that enemy clearly