3.40

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Gently rocking the baby in my arms, I looked around and commented, "Isn't it marvelous? An immaculate white mindscape, isn't this the epitome of innocence?"

Looking back at Isobu, I added, "I know you are no monster, I can feel it. You don't want to kill this boy, do you?"

Isobu replied with his deep, grating voice, "I don't want to spend several more decades trapped either."

I nodded, "Naturally. But what if I could get you out of the boy's body without killing him?"

Isobu's three tails slammed the ground as he instantly negated, "Impossible."

"It is. But I am going to need your help, your Chakra is too strong for me to control when you are resisting. But as long as you help me, I will be able to completely separated your two lifeforces. I would appreciate it if you didn't try to take form immediately after leaving his body, as you would kill everyone in the cave."

Isobu continued sizing me up, before muttering, "What will happen once I'm out?"

I shrugged, replying, "None of my business. The only reason I'm here was because you were used as a weapon against me. Apologies for the pain I caused too, this is my first time doing this kind of thing."

"A weapon?"

I nodded, "Yes, by the Mizukage. He sealed you into this boy, and send the boy into our camp with a loose seal, so you would erupt out and kill everyone. Including the boy, probably, considering I hardly see him surviving your rampage."

Isobu was still suspicious though as his eye narrowed, and he said, "Or you are just saying this to have me help you."

Shrugging, I admitted, "I could use your help, but I'll be fine without it too. Besides, I don't want to cause mass destruction, so you might end up being as more of a nuisance than anything. All I want is for you not to attack my men."

Even after this though, Isobu was hesitating, so I hammered in the last nail, "Where are my manners, I didn't even introduce myself! My name is Alexander Venator, pleased to meet you."

Isobu took a moment to reply, "People call me Sanbi."

Pulling out my most charming smile, I remarked, "Surely you can't be called Three Tails. Everyone has a name."

Isobu looked touched at my words as he finally revealed in a shy voice, "Isobu. My name is Isobu. Nice to meet you too. And yes, I will help you. Tell me, what do I need to do."

I grinned in triumph as Isobu finally accepted. Although I couldn't use the Mind Force Abilities I had learned in the past year because of the situation, my proximity to the Force passively gave me some charisma. Or I was just awesome, who knows.

Putting down the child, I told Isobu, "The bond between your Chakra and the boy's is too strong to safely break, for my current level at least. That's why I am going to sever a small part of your lifeforce to isolate it, and make it easier to separate from the boy. To help me, all you have to do is to resist the pulling force on your lifeforce that tries to pull you out of his body."

Isobu nodded without any hesitation as he didn't care about losing a bit of lifeforce. As a Tailed Beast, he would naturally recover it, as he was a part of Chakra itself.

I pretended to be alright, but projecting myself in the boy's mindscape while in the middle of the operation was incredibly taxing, so without wasting any time I left, and started the operation.

Moving the superimposed lifeforces around the body, I brought them to the boy's heart. Normally, his heart would explode as it was too weak to hold this much Chakra, but as my sword had taken over, it acted as a natural catalyst. It had its own limits, but it was much stronger than the boy's heart.

While I acted, I also felt that manipulating Isobu's lifeforce had become countless times easier, making it much easier for me to do what I to do.

Focusing on the sword itself, I used it as a medium for the Force to sever Isobu's lifeforce, and after a small exertion, I started separating his lifeforce in two, isolating the part that was stuck to the boy's own lifeforce.

This wasn't an ability of my sword, but simply Force Mastery. The reason why I used my sword as a focus is because the Force worked in peculiar ways.

Strictly speaking, waving one's hand does not change anything when one tries to lift something or choke someone. The Force was all about will, after all.

However, most people still did it because it allowed them to sort of put their will into image, strengthening their will and intention. That's something I did too. It wasn't something we could really control, and I don't think that I could do anything about it even with the Second Genetic Constraint opened.

And that's why I used the sword as a focus. I imagined myself cutting the lifeforce with the sword, and this sent a stronger intent to the Force.

To me, the operation felt like it lasted forever, but in reality it did not even take ten seconds for me to sever the part of Isobu's Chakra I needed separated.

The moment the two were separated though, the larger part of Isobu's Chakra, which was now free, instinctively tried to latch back onto its host, so I hurriedly pulled it out of the boy's body, and grasped it in my left hand.

I stopped for a moment as I felt the boundless vitality in my left hand. I felt the Dark Side sensually whisper in my ear, and my Force Drain nearly activated by itself.

I managed to stop myself in time though as I took a breath. Absorbing Isobu certainly would strengthen me, as while I didn't have Chakra, that would simply mean I would take his lifeforce for myself.

However, I couldn't allow myself to succumb to my hunger. Besides, it's not like I wasn't getting anything.

Focusing back on the boy, although Isobu had only left a small portion of his lifeforce behind, it was still stronger than the child, as it was far denser.

But it was still weak enough for me to manipulate.

Moving carefully but quickly as I couldn't hold Isobu for very long, I separated each and every 'hook' holding the child's lifeforce to Isobu's remains.

My face grew a little pale as I started struggling, but in the end I still managed to completely separate the two.

Before Isobu's severed lifeforce could try to latch back on the child or back to its source, I quickly absorbed it myself.

Even a small portion was strong enough to be noticeable, but it would normally take some time to be assimilated. So I used a little trick I had learned in the past year.

The child wasn't completely out of danger as I still had my sword in his heart, and while I could normally use the person's lifeforce to forcefully heal the wound, the child's was too weak. So I used my own lifeforce instead, depleting some of it to forcefully heal the wound, leaving not even a scar as I took my sword back.

I felt my body weaken with the disappearance of some of my lifeforce, but the lifeforce I had absorbed quickly started filling the gap, and getting assimilated much faster than usual.

With the operation finally over, I sheathed my sword, and slapped the boy's ass, making him cry. With Isobu still grasped in my left hand, I turned to my second in command and gave him the baby, saying, "Good job. Take care of this, I got a Tailed Beast to release."

Having said that, I did not waste any time as I got out of the cave, running to the sea as fast as possible.