ROAR—!!!!
A roar woven from frenzied hatred and confusion!
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
That damned brat!
That damned brat!
Just now, chakra from another part of itself had conveyed a sense of humiliation—of being forcibly suppressed, crushed, and completely "packaged" up in some unheard-of manner.
Even across an unknown distance, that sensation had reached it in intermittent fragments.
That feeling—it was like a part of itself had been stuffed into an incomprehensible box, its very consciousness compressed into unreadable gibberish!
Who!? Who could do something like that!?
Was it a contingency left behind by Uzumaki Mito? No! That feeling was more like—Adamantine Attacking Chains?!
Yet it seemed somewhat different, too?
"You're so noisy, you stinking fox! Can't you be quiet for a while, I mean!"
A crisp, energetic voice sounded outside the sealing space.
It was its host, its sacrifice, its Jinchuriki, its new prison—Uzumaki Kushina.
Countless chains bound the Nine-Tails to a massive stone sphere suspended in the sky, causing it unbearable agony.
Damn it—
One day, it would escape this cage! Then—it would tear all of Konoha apart!!
"What, feeling pretty upset? Serves you right!"
"You little brat—you—" Kurama's roar caught in its throat. It sensed something unusual in Kushina's tone.
"I just watched it with my own eyes!" Kushina proudly puffed out her chest and waved her little fists. "Hiroki sent me a video of himself giving you a thorough beating!"
Kurama's enormous scarlet pupils abruptly contracted.
A video? What was that?
What had those two brats come up with behind its back now—something it had never seen before!?
Its host had seen those images, so why had it, the one residing within her, sensed nothing at all? Why had it known nothing!?
"That brat—did he use Adamantine Attacking Chains?" The Nine-Tails' hoarse voice was