Nine-Tails

Son Goku warns Naruto that rescuing a tailed beast earns no loyalty on its own, since a beast will only stand beside someone it can actually trust, and Naruto accepts that condition without hesitation. Kurama, listening, dwells on how well it already knows the boy and doubts that any words could sway a creature like itself.

From there the fox looks back across Naruto's entire life. It recalls feeding its own power into the seal in hope of prying it open, only to watch Naruto refuse to bend to its will time and again. Battle after battle, the boy pulled through victories that Kurama could not deny, and the memories trace the slow, grudging shift in how the beast regards its host.

Son Goku sets out the terms for a tailed beast's cooperation, telling Naruto that trust must come first. Kurama reflects on years of trying to overpower Naruto through the seal and repeatedly failing to break his spirit. The retrospective revisits Naruto's many hard-won fights, charting the fox's changing view of the boy it is bound to.

Part of the Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax arc and drawn from chapter 569, the episode opens with Not Even Sudden Rain Can Defeat Me and closes with Carry Your Dreams. Its end credits carry an error, listing Minato Namikaze under the mistaken name Minato Uzumaki.