"Yes, I know how to use it."
Pakura spoke with certainty.
Hearing that, Guy immediately relaxed.
After Pakura left the battlefield during the Battle of Kikyo Pass, she had been confined together with the old monk Bunpuku.
The two had spent quite a long time together.
What exactly happened during that time remained unknown, but in the end, Bunpuku had sealed Shukaku inside Pakura.
Guy figured Bunpuku must have taught her some ways to suppress a tailed beast.
It seemed he had been right.
Guy immediately looked at her. "Can you teach me?"
Pakura rolled her eyes. "You really do just ask for whatever you want, don't you?"
Guy chuckled. "Look, I told you the Land of Water was after you. We've put our lives on the line together. Why stand on ceremony?"
"Put our lives on the line together? You and me?" Pakura froze for a moment.
"Haven't we?"
Guy gave Pakura a puzzled look.
"Kikyo Mountain, the border of the Land of Rain—don't those count?"
At that, Pakura burst out laughing.
"You call that putting our lives on the line together?"
"Just tell me whether it counts."
Guy looked as though it went without saying.
Pakura shook her head with a wry smile.
"...I suppose you're not wrong."
She paused, then looked at Guy and nodded.
"All right. Since you want to learn, I'll teach you."
She pointed at the pipa ritual implement Guy had taken out and said,
"The technique used with this pipa ritual implement is called Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption."
"It's a special method that uses chakra to suppress, restrain, or even extract a tailed beast."
"Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption?"
Yahiko, standing nearby, became interested too.
Pakura hesitated, then looked at Yahiko and said,
"Yahiko, this technique... I'll teach it to you too. It's a