Time gradually reached night.
The breeze was slightly cool.
It felt extremely comfortable on the skin.
Of course, there was also a trace of chill.
But at this moment, Ōtsutsuki Urashiki was not merely shivering all over.
His eyes were filled with lifeless despair.
Looking at the power bank being delivered to his face again and again, his mouth was full of bitterness.
Again?!
He was far too familiar with this process now!
He had just gone through one round!
No—
A dozen rounds!
From daytime to dusk.
From sunrise to nightfall.
From full of energy to utterly drained.
From eager anticipation to complete disgust.
He really did not want to absorb anymore!
And it was not just him.
Even Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki being shoved in front of him, had gone completely numb.
His whole face, from top to bottom, was stiff.
Like a marionette being casually manipulated by Uchiha Kai.
Told to eat the pill?
He ate the pill.
Told to move closer to Urashiki?
He moved closer.
Told to raise his arm?
He raised his arm.
He had completely lost the ability to think for himself.
Forget him.
Even Gyūki inside his mental space had its tails drooping behind it, dull and lifeless.
It had already "died" for a while.
As a Tailed Beast!
One of the strongest powers in the shinobi world!
When had it ever been treated as a charging transfer station?
This was simply extraordinary shame and humiliation!
If word of this got out, how was it supposed to survive in the Tailed Beast world?
But resisting was impossible.
It simply could not resist.
Suddenly, a thought appeared in its mind.
If the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki could be treated like this…
Then what about the One-Tails, Two-Tails…
Even the Nine-Tails?
Thinking of this, Gyūki's drooping tails suddenly lifted again.
Gyūki came back to life.
Outside.
"N-No… can I not absorb anymore?"
Urashiki's voice already carried a sob.
"Kai… Lord Kai…"
He had even started begging Kai.
Crawling before him.
Even his form of address had become respectful.
Looking at him now, where was the proud, superior attitude he had shown in the beginning?
He was clearly just a pitiful little Urashiki.
Unfortunately, his pleading did not earn Kai's mercy.
Kai smiled as he played with the pill between his fingertips and Killer B, then asked back,
"Not absorb?"
"Of course not."
As soon as the words fell, he shoved Killer B directly against Urashiki's head.
Not absorbing?
Then he would just force it in.
Octopus legs were so slippery and moist.
Kai refused to believe they couldn't be shoved in.
"You… mmph… I… mm…"
Urashiki trembled all over as though he had been electrocuted.
In the end, he could only accept his fate and open his mouth.
Absorb with all his strength!
Buzz.
Once again, that familiar suction force erupted.
A torrent of dark crimson chakra surged out of Killer B's body and poured into Urashiki's shriveled frame.
This time, Urashiki was no longer excited.
Instead, he released a painful muffled groan.
He had eaten too much.
He was sick of it.
"Clap, clap."
Kai clapped his little hands in satisfaction.
Like an extremely skilled assembly-line worker, he sat down beside them and waited.
"I hope you absorb more cleanly this time. Try to produce another gold pill!"
"Just one!"
"If one gold pill appears, I'll stop!"
…
Time passed quickly through the endless cycle of draining, refining, feeding, recovering, and draining again.
The moon climbed to the center of the sky, then slowly drifted westward.
The sun rose once again.
Bang!
Only when the sky was fully bright did Kai finally throw the two "wind-dried chickens," who had been drained until only skin and bones remained, onto the ground.
In his palm, a handful of black pills spun continuously.
Even more pills were scattered all over the ground.
At a rough glance, there were nearly a hundred of them!
But their glow was clearly much dimmer than during the first few rounds.
Ding! Pill refinement successful!
Obtained Fine-Grade Pill — Chakra Essence Pill (White)!
"Tsk. Why were they all white in the second half of the night?"
Kai smacked his lips in disgust, his brows raised high.
"Why did the quality drop so badly at night?"
He muttered, his gaze sweeping across Killer B and Urashiki's faces.
Seeing that the two of them were already numb, completely expressionless, and even their eyes had started losing focus, he couldn't help guessing,
"Could the quality of the pills be related to the mental state of the ones being absorbed?"
After pondering for a moment, he used the pitch-black chains to seal away the pills of green quality and above, sending them into the Kamui space.
For backup.
Then he casually pinched a white-quality pill and put it into his mouth.
A warm current surged through him again.
The chakra inside his body rose a little once more.
But that refreshing feeling of his Life Essence leaping upward…
Was gone!
It was like originally drinking hundred-year-old ginseng soup, only to now be drinking foot-washing water.
After thinking about it, he still picked up a white pill and prepared to give it to Killer B on the ground.
At this moment, Killer B seemed to be muttering something.
Kai raised a brow, crouched down, and focused his attention on the two dried corpses before him.
After being fed countless golden pills made by Kai himself, Killer B had then been repeatedly squeezed dry in a loop.
After the white-quality pill was fed to him, his chakra slowly increased.
But the speed was countless times slower than before.
Like a snail.
His eyes remained unfocused, and his mouth seemed to be unconsciously mumbling something.
"Don't drain me… fool… idiot…"
Forget it.
He would spare him for now.
Thinking this, Kai picked up a white pill and placed it near Urashiki's mouth.
This guy was his main producer of gold-quality pills.
He couldn't let him die here.
Of course, Urashiki was equally miserable right now.
Even when Kai looked over, he gave no reaction.
Even when a pill was delivered to his mouth, he merely opened it woodenly without the slightest change in expression.
He looked completely resigned.
As though saying—
Do whatever you want.
Just kill me quickly.
"Forget it, forget it. Looks like the efficiency of you two still isn't enough."
Kai patted the dust off his little backside and stood up, speaking thoughtfully.
"In that case, I'll still need to find more backup candidates."
Then he stretched lazily.
After tossing them around like this for an entire day and night, even he was a little tired.
Mainly because the gold pills stopped appearing.
Mentally exhausting.
Whoosh—
The morning breeze blew again, brushing over the newly grown forest.
It dispersed the burnt smell of pill refinement lingering in the area and stirred the messy black hair over Kai's forehead.
Finally, he glanced at the Ōtsutsuki bloodline and pills on his system panel.
The corner of his mouth habitually stretched backward.
Wider and wider.
More and more exaggerated.
At last, he bent forward and held his forehead.
A long, iconic laugh echoed through the silent forest.
"Hahahahaha!"
"Looks like sustainable overfishing still has some problems after all!"
"The road of sustainable development is long and difficult!"
Thump.
Future Sasuke and Jiraiya looked at that small figure laughing wildly with his hands on his hips.
Then they looked at the two "human jerky" lying on the ground.
In perfect tacit understanding, they both shuddered.
This pill-refining assembly line was far too…
Strange.
But suddenly—
Future Sasuke noticed that Kai had turned his gaze toward him!
That made him tremble.
What was going on?
Second Brother, I'm not a Jinchūriki or an Ōtsutsuki!
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