"Oh~ I forgot that you tailed beasts don't have genders, so you can't reproduce naturally. That means you're a eunuch to begin with."
Facing the Nine-Tails' words, Hao Shuai simply laid out the facts.
"Never mind. Since you're a eunuch, I'll go in myself!"
As he finished speaking, Hao Shuai, who had been standing outside the seal, slowly faded away.
When he appeared again, he was already inside the seal.
"You actually came in??" The Nine-Tails had thought Hao Shuai was running away, and was dumbfounded by what he'd done.
"Weren't you the one who told me to come in?!"
Hao Shuai looked around the space inside the seal. It was quite spacious—at least the size of forty or fifty soccer fields, just enough room for the Nine-Tails' enormous body to move around.
"Since you're asking to die, then die!"
The Nine-Tails had recovered by now. Looking at the arrogant young man who had enraged him so much he felt like he was seeing stars, he was overcome with fury. He raised a giant claw and brought it down on Hao Shuai.
The Nine-Tails put all his strength into that blow, as if venting every bit of resentment he'd ever felt.
In an instant, wildly roiling Chakra filled the space, as if the world had been plunged into a bio-apocalypse.
The giant claw came down incredibly fast, stirring up a fearsome gale that blew Hao Shuai's hair out of place, though he hadn't moved at all.
"Die, brat!" the Nine-Tails roared. In the blink of an eye, his giant claw was about to strike Hao Shuai.
Hao Shuai merely smiled and slowly raised his right hand. He extended his index finger and gently blocked the blow.
Boom~~
The giant claw, wrapped in an enormous amount of Chakra, came down—but could