“This may be a little rude, but is there anything you regret?”
“...And what if I do?” The Three-Tails sounded rather impatient. It had never expected the child it had accidentally saved to cling to it.
“I can help you! Our clan’s secret arts are really powerful! They can send you back to the past!”
“Then why don’t you use them yourself?” Isobu was getting angry. It did find the little one likable, but it couldn’t accept being fooled by such a clumsy lie.
If you had the chance to start over, why wouldn’t you use it yourself?
“As for me... I don’t meet the requirements. So I thought I’d use it to repay you instead!”
The Three-Tails painstakingly weighed the deal: there was no harm in trying. If it worked, it would lose its freedom for a while, but...
“Fine.”
A life of freedom with no one to talk to was so boring.
“When would you like to go back to?”
Isobu thought it over. Tailed beasts weren’t very sensitive to the passage of time, so it couldn’t say exactly how far back it wanted to go. But it had heard that even the Nine-Tails’ brat was already an old man.
“A hundred years ago.”
It wouldn’t matter if it went back a little too far. It could always wait a while.
“Okay.”
The child’s beautiful purple eyes curved into a smile, and they answered without hesitation.
Theme: The cold-hearted never give up.
