The Nine-Tails' crimson pupils gazed at the gigantic beast in the distance, one equal to it in size, its body covered in a layer of blazing red armor.
The Nine-Tails asked in a low voice, "Your chakra is exactly the same as mine, yet there is no tailed beast inside your body."
"Wood Release, the Sharingan, plus my chakra—can you… tell me your origin?"
The Nine-Tails had lived from the era of the Sage of Six Paths to the present, well-informed and widely experienced, yet it had never seen a ninja as coincidental as Kairen.
Power like this, all combined together, should not appear in a single person.
Kairen laughed inside the fox's head.
"Who knows? Maybe I'm the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths!"
Kairen had meant it as a joke, but the Nine-Tails took it seriously, its fox nose carefully sniffing the scent on Kairen's body.
"You… carry the scent of Asura!"
Asura—the younger son of the Sage of Six Paths, Ōtsutsuki Asura—the ancestor of the Senju and Uzumaki.
Kairen possessed the Asura Sage Body; it was no surprise the Nine-Tails could smell it.
Kairen said, "Nine-Tails, submit to me. Only I can grant you freedom!"
The Nine-Tails snorted. "Trying to use me again? Don't even dream of it."
The Nine-Tails roared, like a starving tiger descending the mountain, and lunged straight at Kairen.
Man and beast became entangled in battle once more.
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After a long while, Kairen wiped his head and returned to peak condition. He couldn't help but laugh loudly.
"Exhilarating! As expected of the strongest tailed beast—the Nine-Tails."
Ever since Kairen took flight, he hadn't fought this enjoyably. Jiraiya and Orochimaru simply couldn't stir his interest.
The Nine-Tails' hide was thick and tough, its chakra nearly inexhaustible; naturally, Kairen had a great time fighting.
Kairen was having a blast.
Kairen didn't dodge a single one of the Nine-Tails' attacks. Though they could injure him, he recovered in the blink of an eye.
The Nine-Tails' chakra was vast, but it couldn't withstand this kind of consumption.
Seeing the Nine-Tails' slackening, Kairen controlled the Susanoo to rush over, pressing the Nine-Tails beneath him.
Kairen pinned the Nine-Tails' neck with both claws and roared, "Have you submitted?"
The Nine-Tails' last shred of stubbornness remained; it still held its head high, refusing to yield.
Kairen formed hand seals. A gigantic tree burst out of the ground, vines binding the Nine-Tails.
Another wooden humanoid stood dumbly to the side, holding a wooden spear.
Kairen stood atop the wooden humanoid's head, controlling the wooden spear as it moved toward the Nine-Tails' backside.
"If you still don't submit… "
The Nine-Tails' pupils dilated to the extreme.
"Devil…"
How could humans have someone so vile? Their moral bottom line had sunk to this level—he had thought their evolution went from low to high.
Kairen's kind of evolution had completely gone the wrong way.
"Hand over the summoning contract—good for you, good for me, good for everyone!"
Seeing the wooden spear about to strike, the Nine-Tails would lose its lifelong reputation.
To preserve the rest of its life, the Nine-Tails decided to make a decision that betrayed its ancestors.
"Stop! Stop! I submit! I submit!"
Kairen halted the wooden spear and released the Nine-Tails.
Freed at last, the Nine-Tails didn't intend to counterattack. It couldn't fight anymore—no strength left—and was completely convinced by Kairen.
"Hand over the summoning scroll."
The Nine-Tails nodded weakly, opened its mouth, and spat out a gigantic scroll.
Back when Uchiha Madara had forced it to sign the summoning contract, that scroll had remained in its stomach.
Kairen opened the scroll. On the first line were four large characters: Uchiha Madara.
Kairen conjured a brush, dipped it in ink, and blacked out Uchiha Madara's name.
Kairen asked, "Will this destroy Uchiha Madara's summoning link with you?"
The Nine-Tails shook its head. "I don't know either!"
Kairen didn't think further and wrote his own name on it.
He then beckoned Kushina over.
Kushina was a little afraid of the Nine-Tails, shrinking back and not daring to approach.
Kairen pulled her over directly.
"What are you afraid of? I've never seen a prison guard afraid of a prisoner."
Pointing at the summoning scroll, Kairen said, "You're its second jinchūriki after all—sign your name."
"Me?!" Kushina pointed at herself.
Kairen nodded. Having snatched away Naruto's biggest cheat, Kairen felt a little embarrassed, so he gave Kushina a guarantee.
The Nine-Tails flew into a rage, roaring at Kairen.
"What kind of fox do you take me for? I only serve the strong. Kushina is too weak—I don't want to be a babysitter for life."
Though being subdued by Uchiha Madara and Kairen was humiliating, at least they were top-tier powerhouses of the ninja world.
As for Kushina—she had imprisoned it for so many years; it hadn't even settled accounts with her yet!
Kairen folded his arms and replied,
"You just said you'd submit to me? Are you ignoring my Wood Release Thousand Years of Death?"
A gigantic wooden spear immediately appeared above Kairen's head.
The Nine-Tails shrank at the sight and obediently sprawled on the ground.
Kairen smiled at Kushina. "Just a little fox—nothing to be afraid of!"
Facing the enormous Nine-Tails before Kairen, Kushina was at a loss for words, as if she'd been whipped by the Earth God—feeling wronged.
Her fear of the Nine-Tails vanished at once. Happily, she wrote her name on the summoning scroll.
After finishing, she said energetically,
"From now on I have a summoned beast too—and it's the Nine-Tails! This must be the strongest summoned beast!"
Kairen smiled. "Though the Nine-Tails is your summoned beast, whether you can command it is another matter."
The Nine-Tails snorted coldly, closed its eyes, and silently recovered its strength. After fighting Kairen, it had nearly been beaten to death.
Kairen patted the Nine-Tails on the head.
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