The Unlucky Aoda and Manda

When Yeyu said this, Garaga, who was lying on the ground licking his wounds, gritted his teeth.

"Kid, you're way too arrogant."

"You think you're worthy of summoning us?"

Garaga had never seen Yeyu's true strength.

He still thought Yeyu was just Tagorihime's prey.

Yeyu glanced at Garaga, then ignored him.

Turning to Tagorihime, he asked, "Why were you so angry just now?"

Tagorihime raised her head and said haughtily, "Because you've learned Senjutsu, you're an excellent contractor of Ryūchi Cave. The White Snake Sage won't allow you to die here."

Yeyu nodded. "I see. No wonder you were so worked up."

"You were worried the White Snake Sage would punish you, weren't you?"

Tagorihime nodded. "That's right."

Ichikishimahime and Tagitsuhime, standing nearby, looked at Tagorihime with suspicion.

But Tagorihime spoke calmly, showing no other expression.

Tagorihime continued, "Besides, do you really have enough chakra to summon us?"

"If you summon us, you'll probably have to use up more than half your chakra."

Yeyu was quite confident in his chakra reserves. "It won't come to that. Once I enter Sage Mode, my chakra will increase several times over. Summoning you should be easy, and it won't take that much chakra."

Tagorihime rolled her eyes at Yeyu. "You're bragging again. Summoning us takes several times more chakra than summoning Garaga and the others."

Yeyu didn't bother to explain further.

"But if I really summon you, you won't just stand by and do nothing, right?"

"Even though I haven't signed a contract with you, I have signed one with Ryūchi Cave."

"If I summon you by force, you'll still have to come."

"It's just that it really does take a lot more chakra than signing a contract with you directly."

Tagorihime furrowed her brow slightly.

She seemed to have thought of something.

She said coldly, "Your hand."

"What?"

"I said, hold out your hand." Tagorihime took Yeyu's hand.

She made a cut and opened a wound on Yeyu's finger.

A drop of blood soon appeared.

Tagorihime cut her own hand.

She mixed her blood with Yeyu's, then took out a scroll.

She wrote Yeyu's name and her own on it.

Then she put the scroll away.

"All right. If you're confident you can summon me, go ahead and try. But if you don't have enough chakra, it could drain you dry."

Yeyu looked at the wound on his hand.

"Didn't you say you didn't want me to summon you?"

Tagorihime said, "You're an excellent contractor of Ryūchi Cave. If not having a contract with us means you have to use more chakra, the White Snake Sage will definitely blame us."

"I'm not going to make that mistake."

Yeyu nodded. "I see. You're pretty afraid of the White Snake Sage. The moment he comes up, you're willing to do things you didn't want to do before."

"Of course. The White Snake Sage is the master of Ryūchi Cave."

Tagorihime explained.

Tagitsuhime and Ichikishimahime were still bewildered when Tagorihime cut their hands too and wrote Yeyu's name on their scrolls.

It was only after Tagorihime had finished that the two of them came to their senses.

"Tagorihime, what, what, what are you doing?"

"We don't want to be summoned by this guy."

Neither of them had a good impression of Yeyu.

Earlier, when Yeyu had asked the three of them that question in front of the White Snake Sage, it had been downright lewd.

They still disliked Yeyu.

Tagorihime smiled. "If you're not afraid of the White Snake Sage blaming you, you can refuse to answer his summons."

The two of them immediately fell silent.

But they glared at Yeyu with clear hostility.

Yeyu was a little surprised. He hadn't signed a Summoning Contract with Garaga, but he'd ended up signing one with the even stronger Three Goddesses.

At least, the strength Tagorihime had displayed was definitely at Kage Level.

Her Taijutsu alone could overpower a whole lot of Jonin who specialized in Taijutsu.

Guy wouldn't stand a chance against Tagorihime without opening the Eight Inner Gates.

He'd have to open at least the Seventh Gate.

The Sixth Gate wouldn't be enough.

Yeyu had effectively gained the support of three Kage-level powerhouses. He'd hit the jackpot this time.

Tagorihime was so powerful that the other two goddesses naturally couldn't be far behind.

In fact, the Three Goddesses were evenly matched in strength; they simply specialized in different abilities.

Meanwhile, Garaga, who was lying on the ground groaning, had been completely forgotten.

Even when he threatened to report them to the White Snake Sage, Yeyu and the Three Goddesses ignored him.

Since the White Snake Sage hadn't said anything, he had tacitly approved of Tagorihime's actions.

Yeyu had originally planned to leave Ryūchi Cave then and there.

But after leaving Garaga's cave, he ran into Aoda, who had come out to look for food.

Although he now had the Three Goddesses, Yeyu still wanted a large snake to help him control the situation.

So he attacked Aoda.

Battered and bruised, Aoda became Yeyu's Summoned Beast in a daze.

Only after Yeyu and the Three Goddesses had left did Aoda come to his senses.

"I became that guy's Summoned Beast?"

"Then why did he beat me up like this? I never said I wasn't willing. Damn it!"

Poor Aoda hadn't even figured out what was going on. He hadn't even attacked Yeyu—in fact, he'd only been greeting the Three Goddesses when Yeyu beat him up.

Aoda had a pretty good disposition.

If Yeyu had told him he was someone recognized by the White Snake Sage, Aoda would have willingly become his Summoned Beast without needing to be attacked.

He was the nicest big snake in all of Ryūchi Cave.

But Yeyu had only signed a contract with Aoda on a whim, so he'd simply beaten him up to save himself the trouble of talking.

When he passed Manda's cave, Yeyu beat him up too, even though he didn't sign a contract with him.

The reason was that the guy had insulted Yeyu for no reason.

The Three Goddesses didn't intervene. They just watched from the side.

Yeyu knew how hard to hit.

Although Manda looked pretty miserable afterward, he didn't have any life-threatening injuries.

A Summoned Beast's powerful healing ability meant he'd recover before long.

Manda had really just been mouthing off out of habit.

He hadn't expected Yeyu not to indulge him the way Orochimaru did.

Yeyu returned to the White Snake Sage's cave.

He saw that the White Snake Sage was still asleep.

Yeyu didn't disturb him. He used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave Ryūchi Cave.

Yeyu had gained a lot on this trip.

His greatest gain was learning Ryūchi Cave's Senjutsu.

After entering Sage Mode, Yeyu's chakra increased five or six times over.

That meant that in Sage Mode, Yeyu's chakra reserves were even comparable to the Nine-Tails in its complete form.

That was why the White Snake Sage had been so astonished when Yeyu entered Sage Mode.

Yeyu's chakra had increased at a truly terrifying rate after he entered Sage Mode.

In all the years of Ryūchi Cave, no one had ever managed that before.

After Yeyu left,

the Three Goddesses came to see the White Snake Sage.

The White Snake Sage, who had been asleep just moments ago, was now fully alert, coiled atop the stone chair.