"That adorable little brother you mentioned... he isn't in a very good spot right now~" Sōkyū Hatake said, narrowing his eyes.
With a flick of his hand, a glass jar containing a pool of black liquid appeared in his grasp.
There was also a sealing strip on the outside of the jar. Sōkyū Hatake had paid a hefty price to redeem it from the system. It was a glass jar from Natsume's Book of Friends, powerful enough to trap even Natsume, the lord of all demons (just kidding).
At that moment, Black Zetsu's eyes kept shifting within the black liquid, seemingly searching anxiously for a way out.
But every time he reached the top of the jar, an inexplicable force bounced his body back.
"Then I'd better hurry. I can't let you kill my adorable little brother just like that." A strange smile appeared at the corners of Hagoromo Otsutsuki's mouth, and he pressed his palms together.
As Hagoromo Otsutsuki formed hand seals, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path rose on the spot, roaring loudly at the sky with its enormous mouth.
With the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's roar, the nine chains connecting it to the tailed beasts began shaking violently, and the rate at which it drained the nine tailed beasts increased as well.
For a moment, a grim, murderous atmosphere settled over the scene.
"That... isn't quite how you imagine it." Sōkyū Hatake watched the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The amount of chakra it had drained from each tailed beast was about to exceed half.
As the nine tailed beasts' chakra poured in, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's body began to change...
"It's about time..." Sōkyū Hatake smiled faintly as he watched the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which had