Fifteen years. The Nine-Tails had remained inside Naruto for a full fifteen years. But to the Nine-Tails, fifteen years was no more than an instant.
It had lived for thousands of years and had been sealed inside human bodies more than a hundred times. It held no goodwill whatsoever toward these so-called containers of the Nine-Tails. In its eyes, ever since that old man had died, there had been no humans worth trusting anymore.
They were all filthy creatures—slaughter, hatred, bloodshed, exploitation, schemes. For so-called profit, humans could commit every kind of cruelty. What the Nine-Tails had seen and experienced over thousands of years had worn away all its patience and faith in humanity.
So-called humans were merely greedy beings who would stop at nothing for their own benefit.
Yet recently, within this boy named Naruto, the Nine-Tails had felt something it had never felt before—a feeling like the one that person had once given it.
But the experiences of thousands of years could not be erased so easily.
The Nine-Tails still hated humans. As an immortal being, all it longed for now was freedom. Yet Ueno Kei's words had stirred its resentment once more.
"Hmph. If you have the ability, come and try it. I'll be waiting for you!" The Nine-Tails glared viciously at Ueno Kei. The confidence in his words displeased it greatly, as though he were certain he could seize its chakra.
Ueno Kei merely smiled faintly and said nothing, but the words that came from his mouth next shocked the Nine-Tails deeply.
"Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato. Since I'm here, why won't you show yourself?" Ueno Kei abruptly spoke, and without anyone noticing, his pupils had already turned into crosses! He had entered Sage Mode!
As Ueno Kei's words fell, a golden figure appeared before him. That