What was he here for?
Reconnaissance?
No one conducted reconnaissance this openly, did they?
White-robed Chiba watched Heavenly Path Yahiko hovering overhead, robes fluttering as his Rinnegan gazed down below. A cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.
Clearly, Heavenly Path Yahiko's appearance at this moment was not for reconnaissance, nor had he come because of some intelligence to observe the state of the Konoha Crush battle.
After all, if it were reconnaissance or observation, there would have been no need for him to show himself here.
Rather than an error in reconnaissance or observation, such an appearance was more aptly called a provocation.
Or rather, in a sense, it was already a posture of war.
Could it be that Uchiha Nobuhiko was about to launch another attack?
And this time, he had colluded with Akatsuki?
As that thought crossed his mind, the cold smile on White-robed Chiba's lips slowly faded. The faint sense of emptiness within him had vanished now that his soul had completely fused. Yet, from the corner of his eye, his gaze seemed to cross space itself and land on the young man hidden among the trees.
At a time like this, with a posture of war rather than reconnaissance or observation, and with Uchiha Nobuhiko present, White-robed Chiba almost instantly associated it with an attack.
Moreover, judging from the current battle situation, this was indeed a very suitable time for Akatsuki to enter the battlefield.
Now that Uchiha Nobuhiko and his split bodies were gone, there was no longer any need to worry about them. And Heavenly Path Yahiko—or rather, Nagato, the one controlling Heavenly Path Yahiko—also possessed the Rinnegan. Although those Rinnegan were not his, and Nagato's compatibility with his body was not perfect like theirs, it was still Supreme Power.
Though