The Nine-Tails: Small, Pitiful, and Helpless

Hadn't Kurama always called himself an old man? Why was he suddenly asking someone else to decide his gender?

And here I thought you had a backbone. The moment you met someone stronger, you dropped to your knees and begged for mercy.

If the circumstances had been different, Matatabi would have wanted to record this with a camera and show it to the other Tailed Beasts over and over.

Let's see if Kurama dares act up in front of us after that.

No. If he doesn't make it through this, he won't have an "after that."

Raiden Ei hadn't thought that far. She only wanted to check one thing.

The fox Xuanye had sent her did seem much less troublesome than Yae Miko.

Yae Miko still bristled now and then, and she sometimes tricked Ei.

This one looked far better behaved.

Since the fox was a pet Xuanye had given her, Raiden Ei had no intention of hurting him.

Kurama was so terrified purely because of his instincts.

As she stroked the top of Kurama's head, each touch felt to him like a predator far more fearsome than himself was sitting beside him, smoothing down his fur.

It didn't feel like she was caring for him. It felt more like a cat taking a few licks to sample a mouse before biting through its skull.

Buddy, you smell delicious~

In his head, Kurama cursed Uchiha Genya up and down.

Bastard! You can't do this to a fox!

It's not like I refused to obey you. You could've sealed me inside you and put me to work!

We could've talked this over!

Why send me to this hellhole without a word?

Unfortunately, once Kurama entered the Plane of Euthymia, his last route of escape was completely cut off. It was impossible