"Hey, hey, are we really going to fight that guy called Uchiha Chisen?"
"Everyone must have heard about him on the way here, right?"
"That guy single-handedly toppled all of Kirigakure and killed tens of thousands of people in the Land of Water."
"Since when was our Akatsuki Organization some kind of benevolent group?"
"When we run into someone like that, why kill him instead of trying to recruit him?"
"More importantly, are we really a match for that monster?"
Hidan, who had only recently joined the Akatsuki Organization, had been babbling the entire way. He had joined to spread the word of the great Evil God, and even offer sacrifices to him.
So why did he have to fight someone so dangerous right after joining?
"Shut up!"
If he could, Kakuzu would have liked to sew Hidan's mouth shut.
He had already accepted Hidan as his partner in their immortal duo, but he clearly still hadn't gotten used to Hidan's incessant chatter.
Kakuzu had been itching to take this job for a long time. Not only was the Land of Earth paying generously, but the bounty on Uchiha Chisen at the Underground Bounty Office kept soaring as though there were no limit.
Especially once news from the Land of Water spread far and wide, practically every noble had sent money to the Underground Bounty Office. In no time at all, the bounty on Uchiha Chisen had skyrocketed to 1.7 billion!
That was 1.7 billion!
Kakuzu swore he had never seen that much money in his life. And if he killed Uchiha Chisen, he could collect three separate payments: one from the Land of Earth, one from the Underground Bounty Office, and Utatane Koharu's burial savings.
The payments from the Land of Earth and the Underground Bounty Office alone totaled