Chapter 483: Nine-Tails: Sage of Six Paths, how will you repay me for deceiving me?
In the empty, deathly silent basement, Tobirama Senju's cold, hard voice echoed between the walls, sounding especially grating.
At the faintly arrogant opening remark, the Nine-Tails' eyelids abruptly twitched as it lay pinned to the floor, feigning sleep. The next moment, its enormous head lifted slightly, and its tightly shut eyes snapped open.
They were a pair of scarlet, slit-pupiled eyes brimming with savagery and icy killing intent, fixed squarely on Tobirama Senju at the edge of the raised platform.
At the same time.
Without any warning, chakra even more violent than what the two of them had felt in the passage burst from the Nine-Tails' enormous, restrained body.
A tailed beast was still a tailed beast, after all.
Even though the Nine-Tails was in a wretched state, all nine of its proud tails pinned to the floor by the Adamantine Sealing Chains, humans still seemed far too insignificant before power that transcended the gulf between species.
For an ordinary ninja, this chakra, mixed with the tailed beast's immense will and pure hatred, was nothing short of a bottomless abyss.
Anyone without sufficient mental fortitude might suffer a mental breakdown simply from prolonged contact with a tailed beast.
Fortunately, Tobirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki were no ordinary ninja, and they soon adjusted to the malice-filled chakra.
"Nine-Tails, calm down. I came here today with no ill intent toward you."
"I am Konoha's Second Hokage. I came here personally to negotiate with you and seek your cooperation."
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Tobirama Senju said all this without so much as a change in expression.
To the Nine-Tails, however, those words sounded utterly absurd.
"Negotiate...?"
"You imprison me in this sunless hole underground... and you humans call that... having no