"So what about today? Was it the Nine-Tails who took the initiative to contact you, or did you take the initiative to contact him?"
"I think it should be the former. After all, your attention right now should be completely on little Naruto—you wouldn't bother with that stinking fox, right?"
Gekko Chizan himself was a jinchūriki, so his way of referring to the Nine-Tails was extremely casual. Of course, even if he weren't a jinchūriki, his wording would probably still be just as casual.
In fact, if you randomly picked any shinobi from Konoha, their attitude toward the Nine-Tails would be the same.
After all, this guy had committed far too many sins in the past.
"He contacted me first."
"Even that night, he was the one who reached out to me."
Hearing Kushina's words, Namikaze Minato's expression grew more and more serious. The danger posed by the Nine-Tails was simply too great.
Even though Kushina, as a member of the Uzumaki clan, possessed extremely strong sealing power, if the one acting was the Nine-Tails, they had to be on guard. Once the seal broke, the price would be something he couldn't afford to bear.
"Kushina, you must keep your original resolve."
"Ever since you became the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, you've done very well. Right now, we don't need the Nine-Tails' power at all."
"Don't let him mislead you."
Minato's words made Kushina nod. She knew very well how destructive the Nine-Tails was, which was why she had always been extremely cautious with it, afraid of falling into its trap.
But Gekko Chizan didn't see it that way at all.
He knew very clearly the reason why the Nine-Tails had personally stepped in to help Kushina.
"Wait, wait—both of you, don't get so tense yet."
"Let me think this through for a moment."
Gekko Chizan directly cut off the couple's spiraling thoughts. Their line of thinking had been a bit off from the start—no, not off. This was simply people's prejudice against the Nine-Tails.
"I'm thinking… could it be that the Nine-Tails is feeling a sense of crisis?"
"Think about it. Back then, at the battle of the Valley of the End, the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, fought Uchiha Madara. At that time, Madara used the Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails."
"Then, that night when Uchiha Madara appeared again—could it be that the Nine-Tails felt scared when he saw him?"
"Hey, don't look at me like that."
The moment these words were spoken, both Kushina and Namikaze Minato widened their eyes and stared straight at Gekko Chizan, as if he were spouting pure nonsense.
Of course, what he said was indeed shocking to them.
Was he implying that the Nine-Tails chickened out?
What they didn't know was that, at this very moment, inside Kushina's body, the Nine-Tails had already gone berserk.
"Damn it! That damn brat!"
"I'm the Nine-Tails! How could I possibly be scared?!"
"Damn it! Let me out—I'll tear him to pieces!"
Unfortunately, no one knew about his outburst—not even Kushina. After all, Kushina had simply sealed the Nine-Tails and never bothered paying attention to him.
Meanwhile, the Seven-Tails, Chōmei, was already laughing himself silly. Listening to Gekko Chizan mock that stinking fox, the more he listened, the better it felt.
"Ahahahaha! Chizan, you're amazing!"
"Exactly! That stinking fox is scared! Hahahaha!"
Chōmei's loud laughter only fired Gekko Chizan up even more. He knew the Nine-Tails could definitely hear this, so in that case, he might as well let him hear even more.
"Chizan, how did you even come up with this idea?"
"Yeah, the Nine-Tails being scared? How is that possible…"
Namikaze Minato felt like his brain was starting to lag behind the conversation. As for Kushina, before becoming a jinchūriki, she had already been instilled with fear of the Nine-Tails, and after becoming one, she had personally experienced its terror.
That apocalyptic chakra—something no human power could possibly contend with. A single tailed beast like that—how could it be afraid?
Facing their doubts, Gekko Chizan curled his lip in disdain.
"What's so impossible about it?"
"So what if it's the Nine-Tails? The Nine-Tails is still a part of this world, right? No matter how strong it is, it's still just a piece of this world."
"And if it's a piece of this world, then it has emotions. Was the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, strong or not? He was someone who could pin the Nine-Tails to the ground and pound it."
"Can you really say that such a person feared nothing at all? Not necessarily, right?"
The Nine-Tails went berserk again!
Inside the seal, the Nine-Tails felt that his dignity had suffered an unprecedented blow!
"Damn brat! Was Senju Hashirama even human?!"
"When he turned into that giant Buddha, he was even bigger than me! Not just me—even if the other idiots came along, they'd still get smashed!"
"Damn it! Bastard! Him, and Uchiha Madara too—I don't acknowledge either of them!"
Gekko Chizan was about to continue speaking when he suddenly heard a system notification sound.
...
[Ding! Detected that the host's words have struck directly at the psyche of the tailed beast Kurama, causing a complete mental breakdown and extreme rage. Special reward granted: Tailed Beast Bomb optimization upgraded to perfection, final optimization skill unlocked.]
Oh?
There were four Tailed Beast Bomb optimization skills in total. He had already unlocked three—only the last one remained.
[Optimization skill: Tailed Beast Bomb Star Cluster!]
What?
Star cluster??? Was it the Star Cluster he was thinking of?
[Host, you're thinking correctly. It is exactly the one you're thinking of.]
Good grief—this was straight-up turning the Tailed Beast Bomb into a map-clearing weapon!
With one blast, it could probably wipe out an entire shinobi village.
[Host, don't overthink it. The power is still that of a Tailed Beast Bomb. The quantity changes from one to one hundred, and the power of each will decrease accordingly.]
Uh… Gekko Chizan admitted that he had kind of expected that.
After all, if it were really like the Star Cluster from that hunter series he'd seen in his previous life, then he'd basically be a walking nuclear bomb.
"Chizan? Chizan? What's wrong?"
"Did you think of something? Why did you suddenly stop talking?"
"I admit, what you said earlier was indeed a bit scary, but you can keep going."
Namikaze Minato had already walked up to Gekko Chizan, waving his hand in front of his face. Ever since Gekko Chizan finished that statement earlier, he hadn't moved at all—completely still, without even a change in expression.
"Huh? Oh—nothing, nothing."
"I just thought of something for a moment. Where was I just now?"
"Oh right, I was saying that the Nine-Tails is scared, right?"
Namikaze Minato and Kushina nodded at the same time. Even though this line of thinking sounded absurd, after giving it some thought, Minato felt it wasn't entirely impossible.
"I think the Nine-Tails really is scared."
"But… it's the Nine-Tails. How could it be afraid of humans?"
Kushina looked confused. As a jinchūriki, she knew the terror of the Nine-Tails better than anyone. No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't bring herself to slap a label like "fear" onto an existence like that.
"Tch, why can't it be scared?"
"Minato, the tailed beasts we've faced aren't just one, right? Take Killer B for example—he's the Eight-Tails. Do you think he's completely fearless?"
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