Kizaru, Activate!

"Huh?"

Within the Tailed Beast Card space, thick with steam, Kokuō, who had been asleep for a long time, slowly opened his bewildered eyes.

Confused, he looked himself over, paying especially close attention to the area beneath his hips.

"Didn't give birth?"

There was nothing there.

No, wait!

"Give birth my ass, I'm a male donkey!"

Fully awake, Kokuō shot to his feet and frowned suspiciously. He felt as if a piece of flesh had fallen off his body—something full of vitality.

"Kokuō."

"Kokuō."

"That voice is..."

Just then, a hazy call reached Kokuō's ears. He twitched them, and surprise appeared in his enormous beastly eyes.

"Bandage guy?"

Hadn't that rotten-ass bastard been dead for ages?

"I must be hearing things. Back to sleep, back to sleep~"

After thinking deeply for all of one second, Five-Tails chose to lie back down and sleep. No matter how the familiar voice kept chattering in his ears, he pretended not to hear it.

"Sensei, calm down! Don't forget the Knight Prohibition."

In reality, Ōnoki looked at Mū, wrapped in Tailed Beast Chakra, with lingering fear and instinctively covered the ninja tool pouch at his waist containing the Five-Tails Card and Driver.

"Ōnoki, you're still so inflexible. Rules only apply to the living, and I am merely a dead man now."

Mū gently shook his head. Even after all these years, DiQi-bro's lingering prestige remained.

But no matter how miraculous the other party was, there was nothing he could do to a dead man like him. Could he possibly run into the Pure Land to punish him?

"But..."

"Quit dawdling. I don't have much time."

Mū glanced at Senju Hi Shin, who was repeatedly testing the Impure World Reincarnation formula some distance away, and frowned. He could clearly sense a pulling force coming from