After flying back to the island, Yui discovered that Nai Hyuga's battle still hadn't ended. This puzzled her.
She slowly landed on the Ice Wall and stared in surprise at the grinning Nai Hyuga. Somehow, she actually felt a chill run down her spine, and the sensation startled her.
Shaking her head to dismiss the thought, she looked at Nai Hyuga and asked, "Nai, isn't the battle over yet?"
"Yui?" Realizing it was Yui, Nai Hyuga snapped out of her reverie and said seriously, "Yui, they're killing each other, so I figured I might as well save myself the effort..."
"Well..." Yui was speechless. So that was what she was up to!
She stopped worrying about it and told Nai what she had learned during her reconnaissance.
Nai Hyuga's expression grew increasingly grim, her excitement fading. "The Third Raikage, who can fight the Eight-Tails alone and defeat it, actually came in person?"
Her breathing grew heavy. Although she had the Nine-Tails' power inside her, the strength she could wield herself was fundamentally inferior to that of the actual Nine-Tails.
Now that a Kage-level powerhouse capable of defeating a tailed beast had appeared, the excitement over her increased strength vanished, leaving only a mounting sense of danger.
"Yui, what should we do now? Are we just going to sit back and do nothing?"
Yui shook her head and sighed. "I don't know either. For now, we can only try to improve our strength as much as possible before he arrives!"
She had a plan in mind, but she didn't tell Nai Hyuga. She wanted to try it herself first.
"I see..." Nai Hyuga felt a little dispirited and lost all interest in watching the ninja below kill each other. She formed hand seals and unleashed a barrage of Ice Spikes, killing