"By the way, do you still want the Three-Tails in Kirigakure Village?"
The two of them leaned side by side against the railing.
"Oh, right. The elders were also wondering why there was no trace of the Three-Tails inside the Fourth Mizukage," Terumi Mei said as she came back to herself. "Everyone thought the tailed beast had gone dormant after its jinchuriki died, and they wondered whether the seal you created hadn't fully separated their life forces... So you took it away?"
"More or less. It missed that big lake so much, so I let it run wild for a few days." Wuye smiled.
Terumi Mei looked at him in puzzlement, unable to understand why he spoke as if he were so familiar with the Three-Tails.
"How about this? I'll take you to seal it inside your body. Just like Yagura Karatachi, your life forces won't be linked." Wuye took her soft hand. "The Three-Tails won't deliberately oppose you. Once you become a jinchuriki, you'll have the confidence to stand up to the elders."
Terumi Mei raised her eyes to stare at him and said heavily, "Do you know that I'll soon be standing against you? And that I'll have to stop the Four-Nation Alliance from fighting you?"
"I know!"
Wuye nodded firmly, yet he looked utterly unconcerned.
In fact, the Four-Nation Alliance was one of the developments he had anticipated...
"Then why are you still so good to me?!" Terumi Mei shook off his hand. "Can't you just stay by my side for a few days and stop doing all this?"
"That won't do." Wuye shook his head. "I can't let you be bullied. They're just a bunch of rigid, old-fashioned elders. What gives them the right to restrain you?"
Terumi Mei seemed to want to say something, but