"Hey, brat. This thing feels like that person."
Deep within Yugito's consciousness.
The mature female voice of Matatabi, the Two-Tails, echoed.
"Which... which person?"
Being addressed by the Tailed Beast for the first time, the girl panicked slightly.
She quickly suppressed her fluster. She understood that the Tailed Beast taking the initiative to speak represented an opportunity to become friends.
After generations of tireless research, by the time she became a Jinchuriki...
The Cloud Ninja higher-ups had finally perfected the method for creating a Perfect Jinchuriki.
However, she was still stuck in the stage of competing for Chakra and hadn't become close friends with the Two-Tails. They weren't even properly acquainted yet.
Finding a common enemy seemed to bridge the gap; Matatabi didn't beat around the bush or act like a tsundere.
"Uchiha Madara. A man of the Uchiha clan."
"I can smell their evil stench even through the seal."
"Konoha's S-rank Rogue Ninja?"
'No, Uchiha Madara died long ago.'
'And Matatabi has no reason to lie to me.'
'The current Uchiha clan is a major clan in Konoha.'
'So, is this some scheme of Konoha's?'
As the blonde girl pondered...
On the other side, Motomu felt things getting difficult.
He didn't want to run into a Jinchuriki right now.
He just wanted to grind levels in peace.
The Cloud Ninja were in a critical period.
Once he engaged with a troublesome character like a Jinchuriki...
Whether he won or lost...
Big Eyeball could fly away.
But he and his Anbu squad wouldn't be able to escape.
With the Third Raikage personally overseeing things and the Cloud Ninja on full lockdown, foreign ninja like them would be caught in less than half a day.
Right now, Motomu could only pray that she wouldn't care about the Big Eyeball.
As she drew closer...
Motomu adjusted his perspective; Big Eyeball's Psychokinesis was ready to fire.
If she touched it and Hide-and-Seek failed, he would disregard everything and convert all his Chakra into Psychokinesis, attempting to snap her neck with fifty tons of force.
Just as Motomu was preparing for the worst...
Blue-black flames flickered on the raised palm of the blonde girl, whose eyes had turned into beastly slits.
"Is this really okay?"
"Why wouldn't it be?"
"No matter who it is, I'll know once I test them using your body."
"The Uchiha's strongest Sharingan Genjutsu is no threat as long as the two of us are in one body."
"Don't worry. Even if there's danger, the Tailed Beast Cloak will protect you."
Hearing the Two-Tails refer to her and itself as 'we'...
A smile tugged at the blonde girl's lips within the seal space.
'Turns out talking to a Tailed Beast isn't that hard.'
The blue-black flames touched the strange vehicle, instantly enveloping the entire steamroller.
"Whatever you are, drop dead!"
Matatabi's voice spoke through the blonde girl. Aware of the situation, the Cloud Ninja pushed the already evacuated crowd even further back.
[DING]
[HIDE-AND-SEEK FAILED]
[STEAMROLLER CHALLENGE PRESERVED]
The system prompt popped up as the Big Eyeball's transformation broke.
Motomu's Psychokinesis erupted violently, lunging straight for the girl's slender neck within the blue flames.
With a crack, a circular shockwave burst forth. The Tailed Beast Cloak flattened slightly but easily withstood the Psychokinesis attack.
Suddenly attacked, Matatabi reacted instantly, pulling back the external Chakra.
The raging blue-black flames that obstructed vision vanished.
When the Cloud Ninja and the onlookers saw the interior...
The two-meter tall, seven-meter long steamroller had completely vanished.
Only the flattened dirt road remained.
It was as if nothing had ever happened there.
As for where the Big Eyeball went...
Motomu was also confused.
The perspective he shared with the Big Eyeball shifted instantly.
In the blink of an eye.
The Big Eyeball arrived in a completely foreign place.
In the dark and gloomy unknown space, a pair of beastly pupils suddenly lit up.
Ghostly blue flames flickered and leaped from the face of a confused cat.
"What are you? How did you get in here?!"
In Matatabi's bewildered gaze, a massive, solitary spherical object floated within the seal space.
The sphere turned around.
Three black Tomoe slowly rotated on its blood-red front.
A wicked, cold aura permeated the air.
"A... Sharingan?"
Matatabi's cat-like eyes went wide.
Because the already sinister eyeball suddenly split open a giant mouth, purple tongue flailing as transparent saliva dripped everywhere.
The sudden, grotesque sight...
Even for a being that had lived for centuries or millennia, it was hard to process.
Looking at the shocked magical cat...
Motomu had a rough idea why it had that expression.
Simultaneously, he realized where the Big Eyeball was.
It was inside Yugito's stomach.
This was the Tailed Beast's seal space!
But Motomu didn't understand how it got in.
How could this happen just by touching the leaked Chakra?!
'Did I hit a bug?'
While Matatabi was dazed...
Motomu quickly recalled what had just happened.
The moment the Two-Tails' Chakra made contact, the system registered a Hide-and-Seek failure, and the Big Eyeball was reverting.
Perhaps the reversion process combined with the contact created a superposition state.
But no matter what happened...
'This time, the cat actually found me!'
The normal way to leave the seal space was to break the seal.
The abnormal way... he could try the Teleport skill.
Breaking the seal was definitely out of the question for now.
He hadn't even mastered the basics of Sealing Jutsu.
Let alone something as high-level as unsealing a Tailed Beast.
Suddenly.
A massive cat's claw descending interrupted his thoughts.
Thump!
Taking the hit, the Big Eyeball bounced around the seal space like a rubber ball.
[INCINEROAR (LEVEL 48) HAS ACCEPTED YOUR PROVOCATION]
[DING!]
[CONGRATULATIONS, TRAINER, FOR TRIGGERING GYM BOSS CHALLENGE 1/1!]
[THIS CHALLENGE IS AN OFFICIAL GYM BATTLE. UPON VICTORY, YOU WILL RECEIVE A SMALL EXPERIENCE BONUS AND RANDOM ITEM REWARDS (3% CHANCE FOR TWISTED SPOON... 17% CHANCE FOR AN EVOLUTION STONE, 100% CHANCE FOR THE SEAL BADGE).]
Challenger: Motomu
Current Gym: Seal Gym - Level 40-50 Area
Target: Incineroar (Trainer: Yugito)
Challenge Level: LV.47
Recommended Level: LV.47-LV.48
Unbelievable!
Challenging someone else's Pokemon inside their own Poke Ball!
This...
This is a first for me!
Thump, thump, thump!
After bouncing several times...
The Big Eyeball, having recovered, turned back to Matatabi.
Amidst the magical cat's look of disgust, Motomu ordered the Big Eyeball to attack!
Don't back down. If you're not afraid, just do it!
Howling...
The Big Eyeball lunged to bite the cat's raised right leg.
Matatabi easily dodged with a back-leap while simultaneously swiping at the Big Eyeball mid-air.
Splat!
The Big Eyeball bounced, flying up again completely unscathed.
Relying on its indestructible defense combined with Motomu's fire-resistant technique effects, the Big Eyeball easily handled Matatabi's attacks.
After a brief exchange of hundreds of blows, the slightly tired Big Eyeball and Matatabi both stopped their movements.
In a corner of the pitch-black seal space.
A girl with beige braids stared blankly at a cat playing with a giant eyeball.
It was unclear when the girl had arrived.
But looking at her, she seemed to have been watching from the side for quite a while.
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