Konan's expression turned icy.
What had she been expecting in the first place?!
With doubts over whether the changes Qi Da You Yu had brought to the world aligned with the dream she, Yahiko, and the others had held when they founded Akatsuki, Konan had spent these past years observing and investigating all across the Shinobi World.
The conclusion she reached was almost too unbelievable to accept.
Perhaps the so-called rule Qi Da You Yu had established had already fulfilled the dream they had shared when they first created Akatsuki: no large-scale wars, no war orphans, and ordinary people could at least fill their stomachs, all while looking forward to the future.
Even when Qi Da You Yu ruthlessly issued the Saiki Manhunt Order, it had not shaken her expectations. After all, what they were doing now was also meant to bring peace to the world through pain. What Saiki Yuu had done could not be called wrong.
But what about now? Qi Da You Yu had actually killed Teacher Jiraiya without mercy just because he had slightly defied him. This was different from how they had just killed Teacher Jiraiya.
At that moment, they and Teacher Jiraiya already belonged to opposing camps, so killing was unavoidable. But Teacher Jiraiya had been Qi Da You Yu's trusted subordinate.
Yet Qi Da You Yu had killed him mercilessly merely for acting on his own.
Qi Da You Yu was nothing more than a tyrant!
Someone like him could never bring true peace to the Shinobi World!
Sure enough, they still had to rely on the Eye of the Moon.
"Still, thank you, Yuu. Sorry for causing you trouble." Jiraiya spat out a mouthful of blood, then revealed an awkward smile.
Konan and Pain, standing in the distance, were utterly dumbfounded by