"Seal a Tailed Beast inside a human body?!"
Madara Uchiha's words instantly threw Princess Mito into turmoil. In her shock, she even lost her composure and cried out.
The Uzumaki Clan had indeed been secretly conducting research and experiments on Tailed Beasts. Lacking powerful offensive techniques but possessing unusual constitutions, they seemed born to be the ideal vessels for Tailed Beasts.
If they could secure a powerful ally's support in the future and seal Tailed Beasts inside members of the Uzumaki Clan, the clan would instantly gain top-tier fighters capable of deciding wars across the Shinobi World. It was a temptation no one in the clan could resist.
Yet Mito clearly sensed danger in the prospect. She understood her clansmen's longing for the Tailed Beasts' immense power, but the problem was that the Uzumaki Clan had never been the only ones who coveted it.
If the Tailed Beast Jinchūriki, which had so far existed only in theory, ever became a reality, she scarcely dared imagine how coveted the Uzumaki Clan would become in the eyes of the world. They would be like a child carrying a gold brick through the streets, inevitably attracting countless greedy, malicious eyes.
Perhaps when that day came, Uzushio Village, the Land of Whirlpools, and even the entire Uzumaki Clan would be destroyed by invasions from other nations!
For now, however, what surprised Mito even more was that a powerhouse like Madara Uchiha would be interested in the power of Tailed Beasts.
What did he want a Tailed Beast for?
"Can you do it or not?"
Madara Uchiha clearly had no intention of explaining himself in the face of Mito Uzumaki's shock and confusion. He swiftly interrupted her thoughts, his tone carrying a measure of menace and far more impatience.
"...With the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu,