Liuyu jerked both hands backward.
Rrrrip-!!!
An agonizing tearing sound rang out.
An enormous mass of crimson chakra was forcibly "pulled" out of Kushina's body.
It was not the complete Nine-Tails, but a translucent, constantly twisting mass of energy-the Nine-Tails' yin release chakra, or rather, the Yin Nine-Tails.
"ROAR-!!!"
The Nine-Tails' roar echoed through the cave.
But that roar was filled with pain and horror.
It had never experienced anything like this-not a broken seal, not being released, but being forcibly stripped from its jinchūriki's body by some power of a higher order.
The sensation even gave it the illusion that the one before it was the Sage of Six Paths, who had once split the Ten-Tails.
It was only half its original size, and extremely unstable, flickering like a candle in the wind.
"Quiet down."
Liuyu maintained the pull on the chains with his left hand while taking a transparent crystal container the size of a fist from inside his clothes with his right.
The container's surface was covered in densely packed Reiatsu Runes, and a small Hōgyoku Fragment floated inside.
He aimed the container at the extracted Yin Nine-Tails.
"Capture."
A powerful suction erupted from the container.
The Yin Nine-Tails roared and struggled, but could not resist that pull.
Its energy was drawn away bit by bit and compressed, finally becoming a stream of crimson light that was sucked into the container.
The entire process lasted only ten seconds.
When the final wisp of crimson chakra disappeared into the container, Liuyu closed its lid.
Inside, the small Hōgyoku Fragment was happily absorbing the Nine-Tails' chakra, an eerie red glow spreading over its surface.
And Kushina...
She lay slumped on the delivery bed. Where the seal had once been on her abdomen, only a gaping wound remained, blood constantly