Late at night, on the shore of the lake, in a cave-

Wu Tu arrived here with Chloe and Sakura on his back, and by this time Sakura had lost her spell mark and returned to her original form, but she was still unconscious.

"Alright, I'm awake, let me down. Chloe said, jumping off herself before she could react.

Wu Tu carefully placed Sakura's back on a smooth-looking stone and said, "Sister Sakura, is she okay?"

"How can it be okay?" Chloe gritted her teeth, took out a pack of special large military ration pills from under Sakura's skirt, took out one with a frown, and handed one to Wu Tu.

"Lin Ci didn't come back either, was he killed by them? Chloe smiled wryly.

"I'll always follow Sakura, no matter where I go!" Wu Tu said honestly, but his tone was firm.

"Well, you're the only one who says that, right?" Chloe laughed.

At this moment, the sealing spell under Sakura's skirt suddenly burst out of black gas, and Sakura sat up stiffly and opened her eyes, but there was a red glow.

"It's ...... Did I break through when I opened the space warehouse just now?!!......" Chloe was startled and knelt in front of Sakura, her hands folded.

Sealing・Ichito Lantern Array――――

Three black sealing spells unfold beneath Chloe and Sakura.

"Sister Sakura...... What's wrong with her?" Wu Tu seemed a little panicked.

"Hold her down!" Chloe shouted, ignoring the explanation.

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Sakura wakes up and finds herself lying in a place similar to a sewer, with a huge cage in front of her, with two seals above the cage and a four-elephant seal and a five-element seal.

"Here?" Sakura got up and looked inside the cage, but couldn't see anything.

"This is the place where you seal the interesting things inside you. A voice rang out behind him.

"Who!" Sakura immediately turned around and exclaimed, "You're ...... Why?"

"It's true that I was sealed by you, but that seal is not complete, and the container that sealed me has a contract with you, so I can come here at the right time along the contract route, and you have given me this opportunity by sealing the three-tailed chakra into your body. With that, Zero Tail shot a few tentacles at Sakura.

Sakura immediately dodged on her back, but the tentacles shot past her and directly into the cage, and the red chakra was sucked into the body by Zero Tail along the tentacles, and then, more tentacles shot in and did the same thing-

"Oh no!" Sakura then remembered the source of Zerotail'............s power, the Tailed Beast Chakra is a good choice, although it is difficult to absorb a lot at once when there is a seal, but it adds up to a lot, isn't it?

Remembering the last battle, Sakura decisively lit a blue chakra on the five fingers of her hand, slapped it on her stomach, and then twisted-

Unsealing: Unsealing of the Five Elements――――

Unsealing: Unsealing of the Four Elephants――――

"Bang!" The cage was opened, and a large amount of red chakra poured directly into Zerotail-

"Ahhh..................h Lie to you, I can still eat this three-tailed chakra. ”

"How could it be ......" Sakura couldn't help but take a step back............

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On the shore of the lake, in a cave-

"How so!" Chloe's eyes widened.

Sakura's body began to ooze red chakra, intertwining with the dark chakra, gradually enveloping her body, and three chakra tails appeared behind her.

"Roar......" Sakura made a low, inhuman-like voice and began to struggle, trying to break free from Chloe's seal and Wutu's bondage.

"Forehead ......" Wu Tu, whose skin was burned by the red chakra, snorted because he was clutching Sakura, but still clung to it, "Sakura-sama...... What will happen!"

"It's hard to say, I'll go in and take a look, Wu Tu, you have to hold on. Chloe said.

"Ah, I'm not going to let go!" Wu Tu said flat but firm.

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Zero-tail, who had replenished his energy, was not in a hurry to fight Sakura, but said seemingly casually, "You did a good deed, you want to turn Ghost Pill into a human pillar force, right?"

"This is, the task. Sakura replied as she thought of a solution to the current situation.

"Is that really the case?" said Zeroo, "What will happen to Ghost Pill if he becomes a human pillar force? You want him to be like this, don't you?"

"No, if I don't, Sasuke will ............," Sakura said tremblingly.

"Yes, it may be so, but you should find out that the real you don't love Sasuke, and the real you don't have the same feelings for Sasuke as Naruto, right?"

"But, he's my companion too!" Sakura said.

"It's a good reason to act, but you're in love with Ghost Pill, but ............"

"No! I don't have that kind of love for Ghost Maru!" Sakura shouted as she interrupted Zero-tail.

"It's not love between a man and a woman, it's true, but you're still pushing someone you love into the abyss for the sake of a companion!" said Zero Tail quietly.

"Shut up! I won't let him be alone! Everyone rejects his words, I will still love him!"

"Hehe, that's right, only you will love him!" Zero Tail laughed, "Isn't the biggest motivation for all your actions to be your own and to be his only existence!"

"Enough is enough............"

"Huh...... Don't you admit it? Or are you just lying to yourself............"

"Enough! Enough! Enough............"

"The real you, the heart is empty, even if you give up the memories that don't belong to you and accept all this, you still can't change this fact. For this reason, you subconsciously repeat the old ways, desperately trying to grasp something............"

"It's noisy, it's noisy! Shut up, everything I've been through exists, so I'm not going to get anything!" Sakura screamed as she closed her eyes and covered her head. Bursts of black chakras spilled out of Sakura's body and floated towards Zerotail, absorbing it.

Sakura calmly faced her confusion and emptiness, and because she was calm and let go, she was able to leave the afterlife without regrets, and this world came alive. However, although the personality has been completed a lot, and there is no need to rely on false memories and emotional support, the essence is not enough to change, as long as a certain amount of attention and guidance is carried out, it will be triggered.

"What have you gotten to bond with other people? Something that has no value is something that you don't need and can't exist, this is the most important criterion in your heart, isn't it because they are useful to you?"

"No, no...... If you get along well, the real relationship must be ............"

"Then why are you afraid? Why are you so afraid of the ghost pill that has no home?"

"Fear? impossible ............"

"Because of what you did, you have broken with Konoha, you know, but you don't dare to admit it, you can't complete the agreement of the seventh class to reunite, they have no use value, so you completely target the ghost pill......"

"No, that's not the case, shut ............"

"Because he has no home, and you are the first child you really pay for him in this world, so you are bound to him, trying to cut off all other possibilities for him to get a home, to achieve your own goal of monopolizing him, you must think that monopolizing everything of a person is more conducive to filling your own emptiness, right?"

"No, no, it's not like this, it's impossible, it's impossible, shut up!!!!" Sakura continued to exude dark chakra.

"Yes, that's right. Everything you try to grasp is because it is valuable to you, because it has value that enriches you. ”

For a long time-

"Perhaps, that's the kind of person I am......" Sakura deflated her ball, kneeling on the ground and hanging her head.

"You do have a relatively sound personality, but this is just a projection of emptiness that you forcibly suppress your confusion and continue to pursue something, your feelings are the same as your body, just a false existence. ”

"It's noisy...... Sakura looked up, showing her hollow dead fish eyes, "Maybe I'm destined to be like this, but even so, what I'm going to do hasn't changed at all, hasn't it?

Sakura stood up and was about to attack, but a wave of mental fluctuations hit her. Sakura then finds herself standing in an ironworks-like world filled with equipment, flames, and giant gears.

"Infinite Sword System, Chloe!"

"Whew-" Chloe landed in front of Sakura, crossed her waist and said, "I finally invaded with a mental landscape, but-ahh

"Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and Chloe slapped Sakura's pretty face hard. Sakura didn't notice it, and was slapped and fell to the ground.

"Gram...... Roy?" Sakura touched her beaten face, and her blue dead fish eyes looked blankly at Chloe, who was looking down at her. (To be continued)