"Everyone in the city saw the king and queen's chests pierced by the Demon Fox's claws, while that baby, covered in blood and the Demon Fox's chakra..."
"The baby covered in the Demon Fox's chakra was treated as the Demon Fox Incarnation and abandoned in the Temple ruins."
Yugito Nii remembered the sound of villagers hurling stones at the Sealing Hut when her Tailed Beast Chakra first leaked out at age five.
"When he was three, he was so hungry that he stole some offerings and was caught by a priest. That old man grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and called him a Demon Fox Brat, throwing moldy rice cakes into the fire rather than giving them to him."
Yugito Nii, who had not wanted to hear the story earlier, had now poked her head all the way out. Even with her back to Yūto, he could tell the story had drawn her in.
"When he was seven, a group of young nobles ganged up on him in the street."
"A wandering ninja named Iruka rushed into the crowd and shielded him from more than a dozen kunai with his back."
Yugito Nii abruptly raised her head. She was already worried about Iruka. "Wasn't that ninja afraid of the Prince?"
"Of course he was." Yūto nodded as though it went without saying. "When Iruka said, 'You're my most important student,' that kid cried his eyes out."
"Later, that kid learned to control the Demon Fox's power, and he and the Demon Fox came to understand each other's hearts."
"That's impossible!" Yugito Nii had already realized that the story Yūto was telling her was about some jinchūriki from the past.
But before Killer B, she had never heard of any jinchūriki who could understand a Tailed Beast's heart.