The Nine-Tails' final seal could have been undone long ago.
Although the key to the second seal was with those toads, Minato Namikaze was right here. They could simply make another key.
Part of the reason for delaying so long was that Naruto really had been busy with many things lately.
The other reason was that Naruto also found Kushina Uzumaki rather troublesome.
"Blood Red Habanero" was no empty nickname. Names could be wrong, but nicknames never were.
If Naruto treated Kushina Uzumaki the same way he treated Minato Namikaze, she definitely would not accept it so easily.
Naruto appeared within the Sealing Space.
The layout here had not changed much. It was still like a sewer, with water and a cage.
However, there were now far more decorations of all kinds.
On the other side of the cage, Minato Namikaze was reading as usual, except this time he was reading Wave Country textbooks.
He was reading with great focus and had not even noticed Naruto's arrival. He was working hard to become a teacher at Wave Country School.
The one who had changed the most was undoubtedly the Nine-Tails. Even Naruto could not help twitching at the corner of his mouth when he saw what it looked like now.
Beside Minato Namikaze lay a somewhat adorable, ditzy little fox.
It used its tiny paw to turn the pages of a manga on the floor, while its other paw occasionally grabbed a potato chip and stuffed it into its mouth.
It munched away with a crunch, crunch.
Behind the little fox, nine tails slowly swayed as its paw turned the pages.
If this was not the Nine-Tails, then what was?
Of course, this was merely a small clone the Nine-Tails had formed from Chakra. Its true body was still lying