Meanwhile, at the Senju Ancestral Estate.
Kushina had been bickering with the Nine-Tails as usual, the girl and beast trading insults. Whenever she lost the argument, however, she wrapped an Adamantine Sealing Chain around his mouth.
The Nine-Tails was so furious that his two bestial eyes widened, brimming with hatred.
"Hmph! That's what you get for insulting me! Go on, keep insulting me! Bleh, bleh, bleh!"
Inside the Seal space within her body, Kushina's Spirit Body made faces at the Nine-Tails.
Her shameless cheating left the Nine-Tails fuming, his eyes seemingly ready to erupt in flames.
Yet Mito Uzumaki's chakra chains bound him tightly, and Kushina's chakra kept them supplied with power. He could do nothing to her.
As his fury grew, some Nine-Tails chakra slipped through the gaps in the Seal and mingled with Kushina's chakra.
A trace of pain appeared on Kushina's face, her expression shifting repeatedly. She had no choice but to withdraw from the Seal space and sit cross-legged to steady her mind.
While she sat calming her emotions, several powerful spirits suddenly assaulted her. Kushina had never expected anyone to attack her with mental power inside Konoha, especially within the Senju Ancestral Estate.
Caught completely off guard, she succumbed immediately and lost consciousness.
Seeing Kushina fall unconscious, the mysterious man ordered his subordinates to keep suppressing her Spirit Body while he manipulated her chakra, loosening two corners of the Adamantine Sealing Chains restraining the Nine-Tails.
Without Kushina's control, Mito Uzumaki's Adamantine Sealing Chains lost their source of power, and the Nine-Tails quickly began to struggle!
Clang!
Suddenly, a chain snapped. The Nine-Tails' enormous, sinister chakra rapidly spilled out and merged with Kushina's chakra.
The Mysterious Man immediately ordered his subordinates to retreat at full speed. After their interference, the Nine-Tails' eruption was inevitable. Even if