Uchiha Mikoto also said, "Mirai, go get the quilt, will you?" She understood. Knowing full well that Grandma did not want to tell her, she found an excuse to leave. Ever since moving in, Uchiha Mikoto had started doing housework too. Mirai felt that the girl was decent. That was a good sign!
Seeing Uchiha Mikoto leave, Grandma said, "The day is almost here."
"The day? What? So soon?!" Mirai's voice trembled when he heard it. He knew what this so-called day was—the day the Nine-Tails would be transferred! During this time, he had often gone to visit Kushina Uzumaki. The girl had grown weaker by the day!
"Yes!" Grandma was deeply saddened. After all, Uzumaki Mito was both her grandmother and her only remaining direct elder. Now, she was leaving too!
"Let Mirai come as well! I might be able to help!" Mirai said.
"No!" The moment Grandma heard that Mirai wanted to take part in this affair, she immediately rejected it. Grandma had not explained things clearly, but there was bound to be great danger. That was the Nine-Tails! The strongest of all Tailed Beasts! Even the two grandfathers had been helpless before it! Although Mirai was fairly strong, and had even killed Baki, making him a quasi-Kage Level ninja, he was still far inferior to the Nine-Tails. A single breath from the Nine-Tails might blow Mirai away! It was too dangerous!
"Teacher, let Mirai go!" Mirai said firmly. The Nine-Tails! That was the Nine-Tails! If he could intervene when they sealed the Nine-Tails, it should count as fighting it. Defeating that colossal creature would surely yield abundant experience! Rather than waiting for the Nine-Tails to be defeated by the Leaf years later, Mirai preferred this opportunity! Opportunity knocked only once—it would not come again!
"Mirai knows you're