[Ding!]
[Scanning in progress…]
[Scan Successful.]
[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained "Uzumaki Kushina Flesh Chunk" ×1]
[Analyzing in progress…]
[Analysis complete.]
[Abilities contained within "Uzumaki Kushina Flesh Chunk": Fūinjutsu-Adamantine Sealing Chains, Four Symbols Seal, Four Red Yang Formation, Eight Trigrams Seal, Dead Demon Consuming Seal…]
[Converting in progress…]
[Conversion complete.]
["Uzumaki Kushina Flesh Chunk" ×1 = Fūinjutsu · Adamantine Sealing Chains + 10,000 minutes Sunlight Value + 100,000 Chakra]
["Kushina Uzumaki Flesh Chunk" has been judged to be high-quality flesh. Reward: Reward: Awakening of the Demon Slayer Corps' Flower Hashira, Kanae Kocho's ability — Breath of Flowers!]
[Host, please strive to obtain more high‑quality flesh chunks!]
But what use did Amamiya Rei have for the Breath of Flowers?
What he needed most at this very moment was none other than the Blood Curse of Kibutsuji Muzan!
Rei had no time to speak further.
He did not even spare a glance at the expressions on Minato and Kushina's faces.
Instead, he immediately turned his head, seized Minato's arm, and savagely bit down, tearing away nearly an entire chunk of flesh from his arm.
[Ding!]
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[Congratulations, Host has obtained "Namikaze Minato Flesh Chunk" ×1]
[Analyzing in progress…]
[Analysis complete.]
[Abilities contained within "Namikaze Minato Flesh Chunk": Sage Mode, Flying Thunder God Technique, Summoning Technique, Rasengan, Dead Demon Consuming Seal…]
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["Minato Namikaze Flesh Chunk" ×1 = Flying Thunder God Technique + 100,000 minutes Sunlight Value + 1,000,000 Chakra]
["Namikaze Minato Flesh Chunk" has been judged to be high-quality flesh. Reward: Reward: Awakening of the Blood Demon Art of Upper Rank Three Akaza — Destructive Death!]
[Host, please strive to acquire more high-quality flesh chunks!]
"Rei…"
"What… what are you doing?"
Excessive blood loss, coupled with the searing agony surging from the torn flesh of his arm, caused Minato's brow to twitch as veins bulged furiously at his temple.
His gaze locked upon Amamiya Rei — whose mouth dripped with blood and whose sharp fangs glistened in the moonlight — pupils quivering in disbelief as his gaze remained fixed on Rei.
Rei lifted his head and met Minato's eyes.
From one person's body, only one piece of high-quality flesh could be obtained.
He had already devoured the high-quality chunks from Minato and Kushina, and yet he had still failed to draw Muzan's Blood Curse ability.
Did that mean that Minato and Kushina were fated to die regardless?
A quiet disappointment welled within Rei's heart.
But he had already prepared himself to accept the inevitability of their deaths.
"You… you are eating human flesh?"
On Kushina's pale face, shock, disappointment, and worry intertwined.
"Rei… why have you become like this…?"
Her eyes widened, her pupils shaking violently as she stared at this figure who was at once so familiar and yet unbearably foreign.
The face that once carried such delicate beauty had now transformed into something eerie and terrifying. Especially those sharp fangs protruding from her lips — her entire being radiated a chilling, sinister aura.
Countless questions surged within Kushina's mind like a crashing tide, leaving her dizzy and overwhelmed.
What had driven Rei to undergo such a transformation?
What manner of existence did Rei now belong to?
These riddles pressed upon her heart like an unbearable weight, yet the stabbing agony in her chest left her without the strength to demand further answers.
"Consuming flesh is my way of survival. But I do not harm others."
Amamiya Rei's voice was low but resolute as he addressed Minato and Kushina.
Even in the hospital, when he had consumed flesh, he had paid an equal price — healing the wounds of those he fed upon.
Kushina's gaze lingered upon Rei, tangled with emotions too complex to unravel. After a pause of three seconds, her lips parted into a faint, pale smile.
"I believe you."
"…Mm."
The words had barely left her lips before Kushina clenched her teeth and once again tightened her grip upon the Adamantine Sealing Chains erupting from her body to bind Kurama.
Kurama's struggle only grew fiercer.
Amamiya Rei's eyes suddenly lit up.
That's right!
There was still Kurama!
How could he have forgotten the most important one — the Nine-Tails itself!
Fueled by the vast increase in chakra from devouring Minato and Kushina's flesh, Amamiya Rei summoned forth a dragon of wood — a newly-formed Wood Dragon.
The massive construct coiled tightly around Kurama's body, radiating a faint green glow as it began siphoning the beast's chakra away.
With the Adamantine Sealing Chains and the Wood Dragon's grip combined, Kurama found itself temporarily unable to break free.
Rei's figure leapt into the air, eyes locking upon the thickest, juiciest section of Kurama's thigh.
"Rip—!"
A chunk of flesh nearly as large as Rei's upper body was torn away and swallowed whole in a single gulp.
"…"
Rei's head spun in dizziness.
How had he managed to devour that entire mass in one bite?
How could something so massive vanish so effortlessly into his stomach?
Was his mouth… his stomach… some kind of black hole?
[Ding!]
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[Congratulations, Host has obtained "Kurama Flesh Chunk" ×1]
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[Abilities contained within "Kurama": Tailed Beast Bomb, Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak, Malice Perception…]
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["Kurama Flesh Chunk" ×1 = Malice Perception + 1,000,000 minutes Sunlight Value + 10,000,000 Chakra]
["Kurama Flesh Chunk" has been judged to be high-quality flesh. Reward: Awakening of the Blood Demon Art of Upper Rank Four Nakime — Infinite Castle Manipulation!]
[Host, please strive to acquire more high-quality flesh chunks!]
And with that, the final chance slipped away.
The Blood Curse — cruelly, mercilessly — had not been drawn on this fateful night.
Crack—!
The body of the Wood Dragon groaned with a brittle snap.
In the very next instant, the enormous construct was shattered apart by the overwhelming surge of Kurama's chakra.
Kurama's scarlet vertical pupils glared hatefully at Amamiya Rei.
Mokuton ninjutsu!
It reminded Kurama of a figure from long ago!
The Nine-Tails erupted into a roar so thunderous it made the very earth tremble.
The Adamantine Chains shuddered violently, one strand finally snapping apart under its fury.
Blood vessels burst in Kushina's eyes as she forced out another chain, her body trembling as she shot it forth to restrain the beast again.
"Kushina!"
Kurama's crimson eyes, dripping with rage and bloodlust, locked upon her.
Amamiya Rei seized the opening, thrusting forward his hand.
His left hand twisted and writhed, transforming grotesquely into a massive, pulsating organ like a living intestinal tube. Its gnashing maw clamped viciously onto Kurama's other thigh, burrowing deep inside.
A chunk of flesh the size of a man was swallowed in an instant.
[Ding!]
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[Congratulations, Host has obtained "Kurama Flesh Chunk" ×1]
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[Abilities contained within "Kurama Flesh Chunk": Tailed Beast Bomb, Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak, Malice Perception…]
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["Kurama Flesh Chunk" ×1 = Tailed Beast Bomb + 2,000,000 minutes Sunlight Value + 20,000,000 Chakra]
[Host, please strive to acquire more high-quality flesh chunks!]
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