The Eight-Tails Gyuki fell silent.
He suddenly remembered the news he had heard from B earlier.
News about Yugito Nii, and Kirigakure's Three-Tails Jinchūriki, Karatachi Yagura.
"...Then what did you come here for?"
Eight-Tails Gyuki spoke again.
"To capture B and take him back to Konoha, just like you did with Yugito Nii and Karatachi Yagura?"
"No, you misunderstand. I've never been interested in Jinchūriki."
Uchiha Minamoto raised his right hand and wagged his index finger.
"What I've always been interested in are Tailed Beasts.
"I defeated and captured Yugito Nii and Karatachi Yagura, but I didn't kill them. I merely undid the seals on them."
"Undid the seals?"
Eight-Tails Gyuki's swollen, bloodshot bovine eyes immediately widened.
"You mean...?"
"That's right."
Uchiha Minamoto nodded and said frankly.
"Matatabi and Isobu have both been released from their original Jinchūriki by me.
"You haven't forgotten those two names, have you?
"Eight-Tails, Gyuki."
Uchiha Minamoto spoke the Eight-Tails' name without the slightest hesitation.
He already had contracts with two Tailed Beasts.
It was perfectly normal for him to know the other Tailed Beasts' true names.
"Two-Tails, Three-Tails..."
Eight-Tails Gyuki shifted his position slightly, letting his badly injured body relax a little.
The attitude Uchiha Minamoto displayed now dispelled Eight-Tails Gyuki's initial wariness and... fear.
He was entirely at the other man's mercy.
When Uchiha Minamoto first appeared.
Eight-Tails Gyuki had thought this red-eyed freak had come to kill him...
Such was the reputation of Indra's line.
It was hardly strange for Eight-Tails Gyuki to think that way.
"How are they... doing now?"
"Matatabi and Isobu have signed Summoning Contracts with me and become my summons."
Uchiha Minamoto briefly explained the Two-Tails Matatabi's and the Three-Tails Isobu's current living conditions.
"...They're both living in the Naka River Reservoir near Konoha now, quite free and