"The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned, and Watanabe Ichiro also looked at him in surprise.
In this world, the Nine-Tails was sealed in the Konoha Forbidden Zone, watched over in shifts by Uzumaki skilled in sealing jutsu formulas and Kagami Uchiha, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The seal was perfectly stable. There was no need at all to restrain it through a method as unstable and inhumane as using a jinchūriki.
As vessels for sealed tailed beasts, jinchūriki could indeed draw on their beasts' power and improve their strength to a degree. They certainly were powerful.
But they also ran the risk of having their consciousness eroded by the tailed beasts. Worse still, once a tailed beast was extracted from a jinchūriki, anyone without a special bloodline would die immediately.
There was another issue: jinchūriki had a bad reputation.
Just look at Naruto and Gaara in the original story. They had been treated as monsters and discriminated against by their entire villages, because losing control of their emotions could turn them into tailed beasts and plunge their villages into crisis.
To ordinary people, jinchūriki were walking bombs. Who would dare get close?
If Hatake Sakumo, with his fragile heart, faced that kind of mistreatment, could he really endure it?
That was a question that needed a very large question mark.
This was a high-risk, low-return proposition, a desperate measure taken only when no better options existed. Why would he volunteer for it?
Had his last battle with the Second Raikage shown him the power of a jinchūriki and given him ideas?
"Sakumo, can you give me a reason? You know The Risks of Jinchūriki and how difficult they are to control."
Hatake Sakumo stood stiffly at attention, hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
"After my last battle with the Raikage,