"Why...?"
But the masked man could make no move, because a figure with a grim expression slowly emerged from the shadows directly in front of him.
It was another Hyuga Wuye!
"This is..."
The masked man turned back and saw two figures of Hyuga Wuye on the Nine-Tails.
The double Adamantine Sealing Chains suppressed the Nine-Tails completely. No matter how he controlled it, it could not break free!
"Two Shadow Clones..."
The masked man sighed softly. "Two Shadow Clones can completely suppress the mighty Nine-Tails. You really are difficult to deal with..."
Wuye knelt beside Kushina, slowly bent down, and held her frail body tightly.
In an instant, he assessed Kushina's condition.
As the Nine-Tails had been extracted, most of her life force had been drawn out with it. Her body had weakened to the extreme, and most critically...
As her life force faded, her soul began to be drawn toward the Pure Land.
Even with the Uzumaki clan's powerful constitution, she had no more than an hour left...
Wuye knelt on the ground and slowly, slowly lowered his face, pressing it tightly against Kushina's cold little face.
Countless memories surged into his mind, and blood-red color spread through his eyes.
Only at the moment of loss did people understand how important the one they had lost truly was.
And at this moment, Wuye could clearly feel as though his body and soul were about to die.
This childhood sweetheart, this wife he had married so happily, this always energetic and reckless girl...
She was the love he could never let go of...
And then, little by little, it turned into despair.
"Why?!"
He growled.
"You're asking me?"
The masked man actually scratched his head and pointed carelessly toward the Nine-Tails. "Because I need the Nine-Tails..."
"You..."
Wuye suddenly raised