Tap, tap, tap.
Deep in Kirigakure, high heels crunched over gravel and squelched through viscous muck, their sharp clicks ringing out.
Mei Terumi looked back at the terrifying tailed beast towering above her like a mountain. The conflict in her heart gradually gave way to resolve.
A look of determination flashed across her face!
If she still didn't make a decision now, the entire heart of Kirigakure would be destroyed!
For Kirigakure, already suffering under the Blood Mist Policy year after year, such losses would be utterly unbearable.
Roar! Roar!
The Three-Tails let out another suffocating roar behind her, brimming with the stench of destruction!
But Mei Terumi, the future Fifth Mizukage, no longer had any attention to spare for it.
In her clear, water-green eyes, only one figure was reflected—
That tiny figure, standing lazily in front of the terrifying tailed beast!
Uchiha Jin!
She had to walk, step by step, all the way to that little figure and say those words to him herself!
Tap.
She walked quickly, but steadily.
Her voluptuous, graceful figure showed through the tattered blue top, appearing and disappearing beneath the torn fabric.
Her snowy shoulders were smeared with mud and blood, but she didn't look disheveled at all. Instead, there was a beauty to her battered state.
As she drew nearer to Jin, her expression grew more and more resolute.
There was no despair, panic, or hesitation—only the decisiveness of someone staking everything on one final gamble!
Click!
At last, she reached Jin and stopped in front of him.
The two of them watched her with interest, making no other moves.
"Strange. Why isn't this woman trying to run away? What does she want with me?"
Jin tilted his head, curiosity flickering between his brows.
Of course, he wasn't going to stop her