The Merciful Gigue

Being held in midair by the ankle was already humiliating enough. On top of that, Kurotsuchi's tight, high-slit dress was prone to exposing too much, so she could only clutch her skirt hem tightly and shout angrily,

"Damn it! Let me go!!"

Gigue ignored her. He single-handedly restrained the grandfather-granddaughter pair of Ōnoki and Kurotsuchi, then said to Kaguya,

"Kaguya, aren't you going to make your move?"

Upon hearing that, Kaguya immediately drifted forward. She raised a hand and pressed it against Han's forehead as he lay unable to move, pulling out a miniature blue Five-Tails Kokuō.

Han's eyes instantly turned utterly vacant, and the life drained rapidly from him. Everyone knew what happened to a Jinchuriki who lost their Tailed Beast: they died on the spot. Only a rare few Jinchuriki with special constitutions could hold on a little longer.

Seeing Han lying motionless on the ground, Kurotsuchi wore a grief-stricken expression. As for Ōnoki, he was nearly unconscious from suffocation by then.

Kurotsuchi truly deserved to be the woman who would one day become Tsuchikage. Seeing her side on the brink of defeat, she stopped worrying about whether she might expose herself. Releasing her grip on her skirt, she flipped herself over with her powerful core strength and punched Gigue's wrist.

Of course, with her strength, even that furious heavy punch was no different from a scratch to Gigue. Still, Gigue went with the motion and released her, casually tossing the unconscious Ōnoki aside as well.

Kurotsuchi landed in a difficult split, then raised her head to continue attacking. But she saw Gigue pull Han up from the ground and press a finger against the spot over his heart.

Han's body suddenly shuddered violently, after which Gigue threw him aside. Kurotsuchi thought Gigue had just been desecrating a