"Which of you three wants to go first?"
Motoi shifted his gaze, looking over Naruko, Gaara, and Fū.
However.
The one who spoke was Karatachi Yagura.
"I'll go first."
"?!"
As everyone knew, the Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, was a Perfect Jinchuriki.
He possessed the power to perfectly control a Tailed Beast.
In theory... Yagura had no need to train at the True Waterfall.
However...
"The True Waterfall isn't incapable of allowing non-Jinchuriki to train here..."
What Motoi didn't know was...
The person standing before him was Karatachi Yagura, whom the Ninja World believed to have died long ago.
That was right.
Motoi had never seen Yagura before, nor did he recognize him.
Looking at Yagura's appearance.
He assumed Yagura was a young Konoha ninja.
Although Yagura's actual age... was already over thirty...
"Jump onto that patch of grass, close your eyes, and sit there. You'll be able to see your true self."
Motoi pointed toward the water surging down from the turbulent waterfall and spoke.
Yagura leaped up effortlessly and landed there.
Then he sat down cross-legged.
"Heh heh heh..."
Orochimaru and the others stared at Yagura with various expressions.
"Your true self... Does that mean the darkness within your heart?"
Orochimaru crossed his arms and fell into thought.
"..."
Yagura closed his eyes, focused his mind, and listened to the voice within his heart...
The next moment...
A voice emerged from the waterfall.
"A Mizukage in name, defeated by others twice..."
"!"
Yagura opened his eyes and saw a black figure within the waterfall.
"What... is that?"
"The first time, you were turned into a puppet and continued to build the Bloody Mist Village... The second time, you were defeated by a junior like the White Devil... And you call yourself a Perfect Jinchuriki? How laughable..."
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