Hearing Lock's words, Naruto immediately became well-behaved.
He stopped trying to snatch control of the body to avoid actually causing Jiraiya's death.
However, he soon realized the meaning behind Lock's words.
He shouted in his consciousness with some disbelief.
"Lock, you—are you actually going to save someone?!"
"My God! This is the first time you've come out, and it's not to kill, but to actively save someone!"
Before Lock could reply, Naruto showed an awkward expression that was so gratified he looked ready to cry.
"Sob, sob... I knew I could definitely succeed in leading you down the path of righteousness and kindness!"
"This is great! It's so good that you can turn over a new leaf, Lock!"
"From now on, we'll each use the body half the time. I definitely won't restrict you anymore, sob, sob..."
Lock: "???"
With veins throbbing on his forehead, Lock suppressed his rising anger.
Inside the consciousness, Kushina's mouth twitched as well. She couldn't help but tug at Minato's Haori and ask,
"Is this our little son?"
"Why does he look so silly and cute? He's so different from his brother."
Before Minato could speak, the Nine-Tailed nearby chimed in first.
"Hmph, where is this brat cute? He's clearly just dim-witted and foolish!"
"Sympathizing with enemies on the battlefield, blaming teammates for being too ruthless afterward, and being tricked and fooled without even knowing it!"
"If my child were like this, I would be the first to strangle him to death!"
Although the Nine-Tailed spent most of its time sleeping,
it paid special attention every time Lock came out to fight.
Naturally, it was very clear about Naruto's infuriating personality.
Itis suspected that sooner or later, the personality named Naruto would be erased by Lock!
"You're the one who should be strangled!"
"I'll use the Adamantine Sealing Chains to strangle you right now!"
Hearing the Nine-Tailed speak ill of her child,
Kushina's red hair immediately flew up in anger, and the tips of chains began to emerge from her body.
Minato, standing nearby, hurried forward to break up the fight, fearing the woman and the fox would actually come to blows.
"Kushina, calm down. Naruto represents the gentlest, most innocent, and kind side."
"That kind of human beauty is something a malevolent collection of hatred like the Nine-Tailed can't understand."
"A malevolent collection of hatred like me doesn't understand?" The Nine-Tailed sneered.
"So what you're saying is, Loc,k doesn't understand this human beauty either and is a malevolent monster?"
"I didn't mean that!" Minato frowned, discovering for the first time how venomous this damn fox's tongue was.
"Then what do you mean?" This time, it wasn't the Nine-Tailed asking, but Kushina's angry interrogation.
After asking, she even reached out to pull Minato's hair and grab his ear!
No one was allowed to speak ill of her children—not the Nine-Tailed, and not Minato!
While the drama of a henpecked husband played out in tsealedeal space, Lock moved on the outside.
He didn't bother with Jiraiya, who was bleeding profusely on the ground, but instead quickly formed hand seals.
With a 'poof,' a Shadow Clone with Madara's appearance and the Nine-Tailed's vertical pupils appeared in front of him.
As soon as he appeared, Nine-Tailed Madara (the Shadow Clone controlled by the Nine-Tailed will be called this from now on) took a deep breath of air.
"Inhale— Ah~~~ the sweet scent of reality!"
After inhaling the sweet, blood-scented air,
Nine-Tailed Madara, filled with nostalgia, ran toward the grass and river on all fours like a gorilla.
"This sky, this water, this soft grass, and this mountain with a big hole in it..."
"Finally, I have regained this feeling of freedom!"
"..."
Watching the Nine-Tailed's ridiculous movements as it still acted like it was in its beast form,
Lock, as well as Minato and Kushina in the seal space, fell silent.
Kushina, in particular, was no longer angry.
With a look of pity as if watching a mental patient, she shook her head and patted the Nine-Tailed's heel.
Naruto, in the consciousness, was also stunned, feeling like his CPU was short-circuiting.
A person who looked incredibly powerful suddenly appeared, only to act like an ape?
And those nonsensical words—could he be a lunatic?
Thinking of this, Naruto shuddered and repeatedly urged in his consciousness.
"Lock, let's hurry and take Pervy Sage for treatment. Don't provoke this lunatic!"
"I've heard that lunatics don't break village rules when they kill people!"
The Nine-Tailed's main body, under Kushina's gaze and seeing its clone's ridiculous movements, finally noticed something was wrong.
It immediately controlled the Shadow Clone to stand up as if nothing had happened.
It even mimicked Madara's expressions and movements from its memory, folding its arms across its chest with an air of looking down on everything.
"Hmph, what are you looking at? Do you want to dance too?"
"Whoa! He's so cool!" Naruto exclaimed in admiration within the consciousness.
Lock's brow twitched, and he stopped paying attention to this Shadow Clone.
At the same time, he extended his right hand, which was glowing with Chakra, formed a claw in the air, pressed it against the seal on his abdomen, and gave it a final twist.
In an instant, an ink-like black liquid slid down, and the Eight Trigrams Seal on his abdomen was undone.
A massive amount of blood-red Nine-Tailed Chakra gushed out, covering Lock's entire body, and blood-red tails quickly grew out.
However, this blood-red color only lasted for a second before it changed back into a golden-red cloak.
Watching this scene, Nine-Tailed Madara let out a laugh of approval.
"Hahaha, as expected of the person I've acknowledged!"
"You didn't even need me to actively separate it; you devoured all the hatred so easily!"
"It's just emotions like jellybeans; this hatred is far from enough," Lock sneered expressionlessly.
Only the vertical pupils in his eyes, as dark red as blood clots,
indicated that it wasn't as easy as he made it sound.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
While he was speaking, Minato and Kushina had already been pulled out by giant golden-red Chakra hands.
Immediately after, a Shadow Clone of Lock appeared right beside the couple.
Before the two could say anything, the Shadow Clone directly vanished from the spot with them.
"Fine, you go over there too."
Looking at Nine-Tailed Madara, who was still striking a pose on the spot,
Lock created another Shadow Clone and took him away as well.
He took him to where Haku was, who had a Flying Thunder God Mark.
Only after everyone had left did Naruto finally realize what was happening.
"Wait, who were they! Where did you take them?"
"And those last two people who appeared—why do I feel like my heart won't stop pounding?"
"Lock, don't ignore me, or I'm going to get angry!!!"
Lock had long since become accustomed to Naruto's clamoring and didn't pay him any mind.
Instead, he glanced at the shattered mountain in the distance, then looked down at Jiraiya, who had already turned pale from excessive blood loss, and muttered to himself.
"The mountain has been blown apart, yet the people from Konoha haven't arrived?"
"Forget it, if you die, it's just your bad luck."
After shaking his head, Lock directly returned control of the body.
Naruto, coming out again, was now completely bristling and frantic!
"Lock, you lied to me again! Didn't you say you came out to treat Pervy Sage!"
"And who exactly were those three people who just left!"
"Speak up! Don't play dead on me again!"
"Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!"
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