In Kirigakure's temporary camp, every ninja stood as though frozen, locked in the same pose without the slightest movement. Even their thoughts had been brought under control.
A closer look at their eyes would reveal a distinctive Mangekyō pattern reflected in both pupils.
Tetsuya walked through the Kirigakure camp, studying Isobu, the Three-Tails, who sat in the seawater before him, as enormous as an island.
"The Three-Tails, huh. What was this thing based on again? He looks way too weird."
Looking at Isobu's bizarre appearance, Tetsuya smacked his lips a couple of times, unable to figure out what he resembled.
A turtle? Not quite. What turtle had such a strangely shaped shell? Besides, his head didn't look like a turtle's, let alone those three tails behind him.
All he could say was that this creature had probably been modeled after some monster from mythology.
"Well, whatever. As long as I know he's a tailed beast."
Tetsuya shrugged indifferently and took out the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
"Come on in and sit a while, little Three-Tails!"
The carved face representing joy on one side of the Box of Ultimate Bliss suddenly opened its mouth. A terrifying suction erupted, swallowing the enormous Isobu straight into the box.
He knew Madara Uchiha had placed a special cursed seal on this Three-Tails. Once Madara activated it, Isobu would fly into an uncontrollable frenzy, and the rampaging tailed beast would destroy his jinchūriki and everything nearby.
This was the contingency Madara Uchiha had left behind to guard against any unexpected developments.
Although Tetsuya had made a wager with Madara Uchiha earlier, he had never said he wouldn't meddle with Madara's plan.
After he sealed the Three-Tails inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Chiba Satoru, who was cleaning up at a gambling house far away in