"Minato, I already told you we'd let the Nine-Tails choose. Since he wants to stay, and I haven't forced him, I think you should know what choice to make now."
Without waiting for an answer, Yechen led the Nine-Tails into the Summoning Hall.
Before long, a little fox with nine tails appeared before everyone.
This was the Nine-Tails, who had now settled into the Summoning Hall. His successful arrival had also raised the Summoning Hall to level 4, increasing its future energy gains by another ten percent.
In other words, the Summoning Hall could now obtain 140 energy points from each summoned beast every day, for a total of 700 evolution points.
At 700 a day, that came to roughly 21,000 evolution points a month, enough to accelerate Yechen's growth in strength.
Watching the five little creatures playing in the amusement park, everyone present was touched by their innocent smiles.
"Minato, let's give up on taking the Nine-Tails back."
Kushina Uzumaki was the first to speak. She had become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki at a very young age and had always wanted to make peace with him, but she had never succeeded.
Now, seeing him playing with his companions, her heart softened.
Minato Namikaze fell silent. Did they really have to sacrifice the tailed beasts' freedom for the village's interests?
In the past, he too would have considered tailed beasts creatures of calamity that brought disaster to humanity. But once he truly came to understand them, he realized just how innocent they were.
"Minato, I think Kushina is right," Jiraiya said with a sigh.
"Tailed beasts have the freedom to live their own lives too. Just like Mount Myōboku, their existence doesn't necessarily threaten the village."
Jiraiya turned to Yechen.
"Still, that also depends on what a certain someone does."
"Jiraiya,