After he rescued her beneath the moonlight, Minato and Kushina's relationship had quickly blossomed.
More beautiful scenes surfaced one after another.
Missions together, battles side by side, blessings from their elders...
"That's enough."
A long sigh slowly escaped Flying Wheel's lips.
"It's been a while. Your genjutsu has improved, Kushina."
As his voice faded, the beautiful scenes dissolved one by one.
Kushina appeared before him as well.
"The Second taught me. But there's a condition: the target has to let their guard down for an instant."
Kushina's appearance overlapped with her image in the earlier genjutsu.
Gentle, wary.
"I imagined all sorts of ways we might meet again, but... seeing you question me the moment you spoke, how could I not be moved?"
Flying Wheel—or rather, Minato Namikaze—could no longer keep up his villainous facade in front of his wife. He shook his head.
He saw no sign of "Minato Namikaze."
Now, only he and Kushina remained here.
But the Shinobi War had not been declared over.
And naturally, he could tell that the Kushina before him was a manifestation of nine-tails chakra, just as he had been before.
She had already become a true chakra lifeform.
That also explained the supposed Summoning Technique just now.
It had not summoned Kushina here from outside.
From the very beginning, his other self and Kushina had entered together...
In the same way a jinchūriki and a tailed beast coexisted.
Kushina had been inside Minato.
Though Kushina's gaze remained forceful, it held a faint trace of worry.
"The Second's techniques... really are extraordinary."
Minato looked at her and suddenly smiled, saying nothing more.
"Aren't they? And they aren't that hard to learn, either~ He also said he'd recently improved the Flying Thunder God Technique..."
Like Minato, Kushina began making small talk.
But her