After making sure everything was ready, Senzan took a deep, steadying breath.
“Chomei, are you ready?
I’m going to start.”
Chomei nodded.
It was fully prepared; once the seal was successful, it would finally taste freedom.
Even though it would be spiritually bound to the boy in front of it, the giant insect felt this kid wasn’t a bad choice for a host.
The Four Symbols Seal was an incredibly powerful jutsu that demanded a high level of raw skill and precise chakra control from the caster.
Fortunately, Senzan’s constant reliance on his Transparency Jutsu meant his chakra control was exceptionally refined.
But just as he raised his hand to begin drawing the sealing formula on his skin, he suddenly froze.
“What’s wrong, kid?
Why did you stop?” Chomei asked, noticing Senzan’s deeply conflicted expression.
“Uh…
Chomei, where do you think I should draw the formula?”
Senzan suddenly recalled Naruto’s seal being placed right on his belly button.
Honestly, it left him a bit speechless.
Why on earth would you put a giant seal directly on a stomach?!
Well…
maybe because Naruto had been a literal newborn at the time, and there simply wasn’t anywhere else with enough surface area to draw it.
But Senzan was a full-grown teenager!
At fourteen, he was already 1.7 meters tall—an absolute knockout of a pretty boy.
If he tattooed a giant swirl on his belly button…
ugh, no thanks.
“Uh, does it really matter?” Chomei sweatdropped.
“No matter where you put it, I’m still getting sealed inside you, right?
You could carve it onto your rear end for all I care.
Actually…
never mind, just put it on your chest or something.”
His chest?
Senzan decisively ripped his shirt open, exposing his relatively well-built torso.
“The chest it is, then.
Let’s do this!”
Centering himself, Senzan began rapidly weaving the intricate patterns of the Four Symbols Seal.
Once the groundwork was fully prepared, he faced Chomei, thrust both hands forward, and shouted, “Four Symbols Seal!”
The ritual ignited.
Senzan poured his chakra into the formula, activating the jutsu’s core.
A split second later, Chomei felt a tremendous suction force radiating from the boy—pulling fiercely toward Senzan’s left pectoral.
“Come on in, my friend!
Chomei!”
“Hmph!
You better not make me regret this, Gekko Senzan!” Chomei snorted.
Instead of violently resisting, the beast actively guided its chakra to flow in perfect sync with the Four Symbols Seal.
At the exact same time, it pumped a final, concentrated burst of chakra into its discarded molted shell, leaving it behind to endure Takigakure’s containment chains as a flawless decoy.
The sealing process he was attempting right now was vastly different from what Minato Namikaze would eventually pull off in the original timeline.
Minato only had to seal half of the Nine-Tails, and he had Kushina actively backing him up with her Adamantine Sealing Chains.
Senzan, on the other hand, was flying completely solo.
He was trying to seal the complete, full-bodied Seven-Tails.
Even if Chomei wasn’t as overwhelmingly destructive as Kurama, it was still a Tailed Beast.
Its chakra reserves were astronomically vast.
“Tch, kid, are you hitting your limit?” Chomei noticed that Senzan’s physical state was rapidly deteriorating.
“I, the great Chomei, absolutely hate seeing a friend struggle.
Hmph.
I’ll give you a hand.”
It immediately split off a portion of its own chakra and injected it directly into the boy’s sealing formula to ease the massive burden.
‘Outputting chakra to actively seal myself…
you absolutely wouldn’t find a second Tailed Beast in the entire world willing to do this.’
With Chomei’s active assistance, the sealing process accelerated dramatically.
An hour later, the colossal beast had vanished entirely, drawn fully into Senzan’s body.
The exact second the seal finalized, Senzan’s vision faded to black, and he collapsed unconscious.
A perfectly crisp, intricate Four Symbols Seal now rested over his left chest.
‘Weak little brat.
Just casting one seal knocked him out cold,’ Chomei sighed from within the new mindscape.
‘Well, looks like I’ll have to wait a little longer.
Whatever.
I’ve waited this many years, what’s a few more hours?
But the moment we get out of here, I’m absolutely making that kid get me some more of those bugs.
Drools…
The taste of those bugs was simply divine.’
Chomei settled comfortably within the expansive inner world.
Even though it was technically sealed away again, it didn’t feel constrained in the slightest.
Because it had personally assisted with the ritual, the jutsu’s binding force on its consciousness was remarkably loose.
‘Oh, right.
The kid is completely passed out right in the middle of the cavern.
If those bastards outside notice he’s in here, we’re both screwed.’
A wicked grin spread across the beast’s face.
‘Heh.
You guys locked me up for years.
Time to give you a little taste of suffering.’
A wisp of chakra shot out from Senzan’s body and struck the discarded decoy shell.
A second later, stimulated by the sudden chakra injection, the massive husk began thrashing wildly against its chains.
Outside the waterfall cavern, the Takigakure ninja instantly panicked.
The Seven-Tails, which had finally seemed to be calming down, was suddenly going berserk again!
They had no choice but to desperately pour everything they had into maintaining the suppression barrier.
‘I truly am an absolute genius!
The Seven-Tails, Chomei, has arrived!’
Senzan slept for an entire day, only regaining consciousness the following morning.
Thankfully, Chomei had been running interference the whole time.
If even a single Takigakure ninja had slipped inside to check on the beast, Senzan would have been completely doomed.
‘Chomei, are you doing alright?’
The very first thing Senzan did upon waking was check on his new partner.
The genuine concern actually warmed Chomei’s heart.
‘This little rascal actually knows how to care about others.
Not bad.’
‘Because if you croaked, my grand plan to peep on some massive assets from the sky would be completely ruined!’
Chomei: ‘…God damn it.
I celebrated too early.’
“Hmph.
Thanks to you, I’m doing perfectly fine!” Chomei retorted testily.
“I burned through a lot of chakra, but it’s not a big deal.
I’ll recover soon enough.”
It was the truth.
Just to ensure the Four Symbols Seal didn’t collapse midway and kill them both, the beast had heavily subsidized the chakra cost.
“Hahaha!
Sorry for making you work so hard earlier.
If it wasn’t for your chakra support, the seal definitely would have failed,” Senzan admitted sheepishly.
“I honestly didn’t expect the Four Symbols Seal to be that ridiculously hard.”
Senzan still felt a lingering sense of dread.
Back when he watched the anime in his past life, the sealing jutsu had never looked that exhausting.
‘I guess there really is a massive gap in raw talent between people,’ he sighed inwardly.
Minato had been personally trained by Jiraiya and possessed a brilliant foundation in sealing jutsu.
And his wife, Kushina, was an entirely different story—sealing jutsu was the Uzumaki clan’s absolute specialty.
Their exclusive Adamantine Sealing Chains were ridiculously overpowered.
And what was he?
Just an average ninja with decent talent and a handy Kekkei Genkai.
‘Sigh, there’s just no comparing.’
But Senzan quickly brushed off his self-pity.
Sure, his sealing jutsu was mediocre, but when it came to sheer stealth?
You could give Minato thirty years of practice, and he still wouldn’t come close to Senzan’s level!
The Transparency Jutsu was unquestionably the greatest concealment technique in the entire world.
‘Yeah!’ In an instant, Senzan’s spirit was completely revitalized.
He was officially a Jinchuriki now!
Plus, given how well he got along with Chomei, becoming a Perfect Jinchuriki down the line would be as easy as breathing!
Hehehe~
Countless degenerate plans instantly flooded his mind.
But right as he was busy snickering to himself, a familiar mechanical chime suddenly rang in his head.