Uchiha's personal opinion

So he quickly waved his hand to summon a group of ninjas and rushed towards the large pit that the Eight-Tails had trampled out.

……

"...Haven't you had enough of pretending yet?"

Uchiha Tokuko landed on the ground not far from the Gyūki and looked at the Eight-Tails Gyūki, who was howling and rolling around.

"Your acting is terrible. The fact that the Firelight Lord couldn't burn your body to ashes after all this time means that the damage you suffered wasn't serious."

"And... that dark red chakra ball in your mouth must be a Tailed Beast Ball, right? Are you trying to ambush me at close range?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu couldn't help but laugh: "No wonder Lord Madara described the Tailed Beasts as just beasts with brains, not intelligent beings. I thought it was just prejudice, but it seems that such clumsy deception techniques really don't have any intelligence to speak of..."

"Uchiha Madara..."

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki, its scheme exposed with a single sentence, simply dispersed the Tailed Beast Ball from its mouth.

"What? Not planning on a close-range sneak attack anymore? I'm standing right in front of you!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu made a joke, and then signaled to Kouko-sensei to slightly reduce the intensity of the strangulation.

"Red-eyed brat! Are you planning to treat me like... Madara Uchiha enslaved Kurama?"

The eight-tailed bull demon grinned and said.

"You mean... Indra, right?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu said with a smile.

"really!"

The Eight-Tails' bull-like eyes stared intently at Uchiha Tokumitsu: "You must know something!"

"Maybe, who knows?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu remained noncommittal.

"Do you think I'll give in to you because of this?"

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki stuck out its tongue and licked away a wisp of fire-style flame from its chin: "Yin-style flames... just like that arrogant guy Indra's..."

"...Your abdomen is already glowing."

Uchiha Tokumitsu pointed at the Eight-Tails' body, "Although I know you won't give in so easily, coming so obviously... is a bit insulting to other people's intelligence, isn't it?"

Even the Eight-Tailed Gyūki couldn't help but turn his head to look at his own abdomen.

On its dark red body, something was brewing in its abdomen with a rhythmic breathing motion, and it was also emitting a light.

Anyone who isn't blind can tell at a glance that the Eight-Tailed Gyūki is plotting something sinister!

"...Having been sealed away for decades, their combat intelligence has begun to decline."

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki explained without changing its expression.

The light emanating from its abdomen gradually faded, but it continued to throb and undulate.

Firelight Lord, who was connected to Uchiha Tokumitsu's mind, also tightened his body and continued his efforts to strangle him.

"Is this little bug one of your creations?"

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki looked back once more at the Firelight Lord coiled around him, "To create such an intelligent being without even reaching the Yin-Yang Release level..."

"Furthermore, you are not the reincarnation of Indra or Asura..."

The Eight-Tails Gyūki scanned Uchiha Tokumitsu from head to toe: "You're not a normal Uchiha..."

Are you ready?

Instead of continuing the nonsense from the Eight-Tails Gyūki, Uchiha Tokumitsu directly asked a question.

"Ha ha……"

The Eight-Tailed Gyūki opened its mouth wide and roared to the sky: "Tailed beasts swear never to be slaves!"

Then a glob of ink gushed from his nostrils, transforming into a black curtain that enveloped Uchiha Tokukō.

"A trivial skill!"

Uchiha Tokuko leaped off the ground, simultaneously forming a hand seal with his left hand.

"Fire Escape·Tou Ke Ku!"

A small fireball was spewed from its mouth, which then quickly transformed into a sea of ​​fire that burned towards the inky black curtain.

"Break free!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Eight-Tailed Gyūki rolled on the spot, disrupting and suffocating the Firelight Lord's entanglement.

Then his body suddenly shrank, and with a "whoosh", he broke free from the encirclement of the Firelight Venerable.

At the same time, he brandished his pair of horns and charged towards Uchiha Tokumitsu, braving the scorching flames.

"What a stubborn tailed beast..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu clicked his tongue, and the Mangekyou Sharingan in his eyes spun even faster.

"Susanoo!"

A dark purple chakra demon statue burst forth, waving its giant hands to grab at the eight-tailed ghoul's sharp horns.

"boom!!"

Susanoo slid backward under the immense impact of the tailed beast's body.

Then, the Eight-Tails opened its mouth wide and aimed it at the chest of Susanoo, which was where Uchiha Tokumitsu was located.

A rapidly spinning, extremely concentrated chakra, resembling a black hole, was about to burst forth.

Uchiha Tokumitsu took a deep breath.

The power of his pupils surged forth rapidly, quickly draining the chakra within his body.

"Crack!"

A pair of arms grew out from Susanoo's sides and quickly gathered chakra in their palms.

"Yasakani no Magatama!"

The two newly formed arms forcefully shoved the two Yasakani no Magatama into the mouth of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki, and at the same time, with their combined strength, they forcibly closed the upper and lower jaws of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki.

"burst!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu silently recited this in his mind.

"boom!"

A deep, muffled voice rang out from the mouth of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki.

His body then began to emanate streams of dark red chakra.

"Waaah..."

The eight-tailed bull demon, its horns and mouth seized, let out a mournful cry, its four hooves buckled, and its massive body collapsed to the ground.

Compared to their Jinchuriki forms, wild Tailed Beasts, while possessing greater strength, severely lack the necessary combat intelligence and ninjutsu application skills. They have suffered numerous setbacks against experienced and cunning ninjas.

But this was the first time that the condensed Tailed Beast Ball had self-destructed in its own mouth.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Firelight Lord intensified his attack, and his Flame Release aura subsided as he refined the scattered Tailed Beast Chakra.

"call……"

Uchiha Tokumitsu breathed a sigh of relief and dispelled Susanoo.

The pressure exerted on his body by the barely formed, incomplete Susanoo was simply too severe.

However, this can be considered a breakthrough in the face of death, and his mastery of the Mangekyou Sharingan has been further improved.

Do you want to die?

Uchiha Tokumitsu raised his hand to wipe away the black, bloody tears from his eyes and asked a question.

It seems I need to make good use of that White Zetsu corpse I have now...

I just don't know how the research and development of the small cell centrifuge at the Uzumaki Research Institute is going. A lot of money has been spent and a lot of weapons have been built, but the centrifuge equipment that Uchiha Tokumitsu cares about most and is most important has not been successfully developed.

Perhaps we need to introduce an "advanced" professional title evaluation system and set limits on research projects and funding for researchers based on their professional titles.

Uchiha Tokumitsu blinked his sore eyes and looked at the Eight-Tails, Gyūki, who was on the verge of death after being detonated inside the Tailed Beast Ball.

"Uchiha! I will not yield!"

The eight-tailed bull demon, panting heavily, spoke in a muffled voice.

"I don't care..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu chuckled lightly: "On the contrary, I will grant you the freedom you desire!"

"Ok?"

The eight-tailed bull demon was confused.

The Fire God wrapped around it accelerated the speed at which the Tailed Beast's chakra was refined.

However, the scattered tailed beast chakra was nothing more than a drop in the ocean compared to the Eight-Tails Gyūki.

"If I hadn't been ambushed and lost my tail, I would never have been defeated by you! And the Hidden Cloud Village will never accept losing two tailed beasts; they will fight you to the death!"

It was obvious that the Eight-Tailed Gyūki did not believe the freedom that Uchiha Tokumitsu had claimed to have granted it.

"It's quite rare to see a tailed beast, which is supposed to be free and unrestrained, having such feelings for a captured and imprisoned enemy..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu wiped away the remaining blood and tears from the corner of his eyes again. "It seems that the True Waterfall on Turtle Island has more than just the function of revealing one's true self..."

"you!"

The eight-tailed ox-like demon stared wide-eyed at Uchiha Tokumitsu, speechless.

"I said I would give you freedom, and I will definitely give you freedom!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu leaped onto the head of the Eight-Tails, gazing into its enormous bull eyes: "I told you, even the Sage of Six Paths couldn't stop it!"

Then, Uchiha Tokumitsu extended his right hand and placed it on the forehead of the Eight-Tails, Gyūki.

Purple fire-style chakra burst forth from his body, rapidly spinning to form a vortex of chakra.

"You are crazy!"