A Deal with Shukaku

Seeing Shukaku fall silent, Simu adjusted his glasses and said with a faint smile, "If Mr. Shukaku has no way to protect himself, then I can only hand you over to the leader. Although Mr. Shukaku is a very good companion of mine, the leader's might isn't something I can resist."

Simu's tone was full of regret.

Although Shukaku knew Simu was being insincere, it was genuinely anxious!

It did not want to be squeezed back into that vessel with that Nine-Tails bastard!

Watching Shukaku's expression shift constantly, Simu was not worried in the slightest.

It would naturally be best if Shukaku could find a way to deal with Nagato while preserving itself.

If not, he could only cut off a piece to keep for research and hand its main body over to Nagato.

No matter what, Simu could not possibly fall out with Nagato, his good brother, for Shukaku, his good friend.

"Kid, how can I prove whether what you said is true or false?"

Shukaku finally spoke. It seemed to have gone through an enormous internal struggle, and its expression was utterly grim.

Simu scratched his head and pulled a grayish-white fragment from his pocket.

"The only thing that can prove my identity is this. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

As the fragment came into contact with Gaara's body through the Blood Pool, a familiar aura swiftly reached Shukaku, leaving it frozen in an instant.

It knew this aura far too well...

This kid had not lied!

"Kid, why do you have a fragment of the Divine Tree?"

Shukaku stared fixedly at Simu. It was truly afraid.

As a Chakra life-form, Shukaku was not worried about being killed.

Because even if it died, as long as Chakra continued to exist in the Shinobi