As Tanuki Treasure bade them farewell, the Mask Storage Hall vanished before Akaseki and Ranwu. Presumably, when the Uzumaki Clan had been massacred, the Mask Storage Hall had escaped disaster in the same way...
"This is... a seal? The Mask Storage Hall has been sealed again?" Ranwu was astonished, but she also realized that Tanuki Treasure was anything but ordinary. It was probably not merely "some random tanuki left behind."
Ranwu even suspected that the reason the Mask Storage Hall had unsealed itself after the calamity was likely because something had been wrong with Tanuki Treasure. Fortunately, it had happened to encounter Akaseki then.
"Let's find Minato first," Akaseki said.
"Is Tanuki Treasure really going to be okay?" Ranwu was still worried.
"Tanuki Treasure isn't good at fighting, so it's better for it to stay here for now. Besides, whenever I need it, I can summon it with the Summoning Technique," Akaseki said.
Of course, the Summoning Technique had its limits. The stronger the summoned target's Chakra, the greater the consumption.
"That's not what I mean... I'm asking whether its health is really all right." Ranwu rolled her Byakugan.
"Don't worry, it's already fine." Akaseki had asked Tanuki Treasure before; now that it was a Nine-Faced Tanuki, it had recovered its health.
"Since Tanuki Treasure isn't good at fighting, what do you mean by 'whenever you need it'?" Ranwu asked curiously—in her mind, weren't Ninja Beasts meant for combat?
"I haven't seen Tanuki Treasure's abilities myself. I only heard it say that it can use nine sealing techniques," Akaseki answered honestly.
"Sealing techniques?"
Although she had long known that Tanuki Treasure was likely connected to the Uzumaki Clan's sealing technique inheritance, Ranwu was still somewhat surprised to learn that it could directly use sealing techniques.
Everyone knew that ninja skilled