"Sure enough, it was you, 'Fox.'"
Facing Kurama's towering fury and pressure, Otsutsuki Urashiki merely dusted off his sleeve, resuming that carefree, condescending posture.
"Are you worried about that kid? Don't be so tense. Relax. Don't worry, I won't take his life. If anything... I now want more than anyone for him to 'survive.'"
Kurama's rage did not diminish in the slightest. Ignoring Urashiki's nonsense, he let out another deafening roar.
"Cut the crap!"
"You just said—'this body is mine now'?! What exactly does that mean?!"
His voice contained extreme anxiety and icy killing intent. Naruto was currently hanging by a thread in the outside world, unconscious for unknown reasons, while the culprit stood right before him, spouting such madness. Judging from Urashiki's words, could things truly be heading toward the possibility Kurama found most unbearable?!
Urashiki seemed to enjoy Kurama's furious yet helpless state, and he actually began explaining slowly.
"Exactly what it sounds like, Fox. Because—Uzumaki Naruto has now officially become my 'vessel.'"
"Yours?! Don't talk about Naruto like he belongs to you!!"
Kurama had already roughly guessed it—this bastard had used some strange method beyond their understanding, forcing the core of his soul or consciousness into Naruto's body at the very moment his own body was destroyed! This was not mere parasitism. From the sound of it, he intended to... take over Naruto's body!
At the thought of that possibility—Naruto's consciousness, soul, everything that made him who he was, potentially being completely erased and overwritten by this arrogant alien monster—Kurama's hatred and fury instantly surged to unprecedented heights!
A terrifying emotional storm of savage self-reproach for his own "failure" and bone-deep killing intent toward Urashiki! The feeling made Kurama want to tear himself apart. Why had he not noticed? Why had he failed to protect Naruto?! And