Seeing his silence, Su Yu urged him, "Well? Do you agree or not?"
The Nine-Tails secretly thought, If I refuse, you'll just keep smashing me until I agree anyway... Do I even have a choice?
In the end, with Su Yu holding an absolute monopoly on "reason," the Nine-Tails submitted...
Looking at the Nine-Tails' miserable expression, Su Yu consoled him, "Don't look so miserable, like someone's been bullying you!"
The Nine-Tails' eyes widened. Do you really think you're the right person to say that?
The Nine-Tails desperately wanted to say that Su Yu had just bullied him, twice at that! But the lingering phantom pain in the muscles all over his body told him he had better keep his mouth shut.
Ignoring the Nine-Tails' conflicted expression as he struggled to speak, Su Yu continued, "Just experience it for yourself, Kurama. You absolutely won't lose out by staying with Naruto!"
The Nine-Tails remained noncommittal. In fact, he did not think this unimaginably powerful man before him would deceive him, because strength spoke for everything. The words of the strong were simply easier to believe-or rather, people were more willing to believe them. That held true for any intelligent creature.
Besides, even if the Nine-Tails escaped, with his personality, he would only find somewhere to doze through spring, feel drowsy through autumn, nap through summer, and hibernate through winter. Staying here inside Naruto seemed pretty decent, too.
Then the Nine-Tails hesitated. Yes, it was hard to imagine such a human expression appearing on a fox's face, but he really did hesitate before saying, "By the way, where did you learn my name?"
Actually, the Nine-Tails somewhat suspected Naruto had a connection to that old man Six Paths, because Su Yu was simply too powerful and also knew the name Kurama. What puzzled