Caught Trying to Run Away!

The Eight-Tails' face turned ashen when he saw the deep crater before him.

Just looking at that massive hole in the ground made him ache all over.

More importantly, he had genuinely taken several punches himself.

The pain had nearly turned him into a grandson.

"Finally, that damned death countdown is gone..."

As he spoke, he obediently shrank his body.

Kanami saw this and said, "Not enough. Keep shrinking."

"A warrior may be killed but not humiliated! You—"

Just as the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, was about to resist, a fist as large as his head appeared before his eyes.

"Gulp."

He swallowed and ultimately chose to shrink further.

A fist that big landing on him would probably leave him bruised black and blue. Who could take that?

It wasn't that I was scared. It was just that this brat had no sense of restraint when he attacked. Right, I wasn't scared at all!

I was merely worried that he would hit me too hard and make me use my real strength. Then he would get hurt.

He was so friendly with that Cat Demon. For the Cat Demon's sake, I couldn't get serious.

Endure it!

As the Eight-Tails shrank, he consoled himself inwardly.

Before long, he had shrunk to only five or six meters tall.

Kanami was speechless.

"Keep shrinking. Shrink until you're shorter than me."

"Fine, fine, I got it. I was just taking a break. Why are you rushing me?"

The Eight-Tails, Gyūki, talked tough because most of the pain had faded by now.

Soon, as his body continued shrinking, he became an octopus even shorter than Kanami.

He looked barely over a meter tall, small and rather cute.

Only then did Kanami nod in satisfaction and dispel the Wood Man Technique beneath him.

"That's more like it. Who