From midair, Rasa saw Yūto suddenly unseal the teapot, and his pupils contracted sharply.
"Has this brat lost his mind? Is he trying to release the One-Tail and take us both down?!"
He immediately formed hand seals, and gold dust instantly rose into three thick barriers before him.
At the same time, the gold dust platform beneath his feet rapidly retreated, putting distance between them.
But the next second, Rasa was dumbfounded.
What poured out of the teapot was not a rampaging Tailed Beast, but an enormous quantity of dark red chakra!
The chakra flowed into Yūto's body through his abdomen.
"Aaaargh!"
Yūto threw back his head and let out a low roar as black sealing patterns appeared all over his skin.
This was Shukaku's unique Curse Mark Seal. In other words, Shukaku had sealed himself inside Yūto.
"I've been tricked!" Rasa's face turned livid. "This bastard is turning himself into a Jinchūriki!"
He abandoned all thought of defense and turned his gold dust into countless spikes that shot toward Yūto.
Just then, however, Yūto abruptly raised his head. His eyes had already become the One-Tail's distinctive cross eyes.
His grin stretched to his ears. "Rasa, now it's my turn!"
He clapped his hands together, his cheeks swelling to an exaggerated size.
"Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet!"
Boom!
An air cannon ten times larger than an ordinary Wind Release attack blasted from Yūto's mouth, shredding the gold dust defenses in its path like paper.
Rasa only had time to turn sideways before the shock wave sent him flying, completely pulverizing his gold dust platform.
"Gah!"
He rolled more than a dozen meters across the sand. He had barely propped himself up when he heard something cutting through the air.
Yūto had already used the Body Flicker Technique to appear before