A Conspiracy Everyone Welcomed

This is the evidence!

Jiraiya believed he had found evidence!

Because he never formally accepted Sasuke Uchiha as his disciple, Sasuke Uchiha never called him Jiraiya- sensei along with Naruto Uzumaki!

"Sasuke carries too much darkness and hatred on his shoulders—"

When Jiraiya got to this point, he put forward another point of view. His voice was no longer joking, but rather became somewhat heavy. "At least in my opinion, he can't possibly bear any more burdens."

This is not a form of discrimination.

Rather, it was a feeling of pity for Sasuke Uchiha.

Shirou Emiya remained calm, as if he didn't care about the valid evidence Jiraiya presented. He simply instilled in Jiraiya the idea that the Child of Prophecy existed between two people.

Jiraiya now considers Naruto Uzumaki to be his only disciple.

The white-haired man was unaware that he actually had some disciples who were rumored to have died long ago, and they were still alive.

Moreover, his disciples are also doing something important.

He killed Salamander Hanzo, the leader of Hidden Rain Village.

While killing Salamander Hanzo might be a big deal for the entire Shinobi World, it was a small matter for the Akatsuki.

After Nagato's body recovered, he had been looking for an opportunity to deal with Salamander Hanzo. Now he no longer needed to wait for an opportunity to create more Rinnegan puppets, because his main body was already powerful enough.

However, this is both a public and a private matter.

Nagato believed they needed to control the entire Rain Country to protect the Akatsuki's secrets, but ultimately it was also a revenge for the past.

The Rain Country.

A cage-like building in the valley.

However, the building had collapsed into ruins, and the corpses of a group of Amegakure lay scattered around the ruins.

Only one person remains alive.

Salamander Hanzo.

"You—you..."

Salamander Hanzo looked at Pain, who was walking towards him, and Nagato and Konan, who were standing behind Pain, with some fear. He kept shrinking back, trying to back away.

This old man had long lost his former courage and the determination to protect his country at all costs. In fact, as he grew older, he became greedy for the power in his hands and for his dwindling life.

"Goodbye."

Pain raised his palm.

The next moment!

A repulsive force pressed down on Salamander Hanzo!

The leader of Hidden Rain Village, who had once left a name for himself in the Shinobi World and even resisted the invasion of many great powers, stared wide-eyed and died instantly under the pressure of this sudden repulsive force. His death was extremely tragic!

With the death of Salamander Hanzo, no one could hinder Akatsuki's rule over the Rain Country.

Pain immediately took over Hidden Rain Village with Nagato and Konan, and re-established a new order.

The occurrence of this event...

This was naturally not kept secret from Shirou Emiya.

Shirou Emiya didn't care about the actions of the Pain trio; he was only thinking about how to get Nagato to meet Jiraiya sooner.

If you can.

Emiya Tsuchihara, however, hoped to make use of an old acquaintance.

Unfortunately...

This old friend was unable to move freely at all.

Although this old friend had been trying to secretly find an opportunity to contact Shirou Emiya after learning that Shirou Emiya arrived in Konoha, he was forbidden by the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, who forbade him from having any chance to appear in front of Shirou Emiya.

"Danzo is always very busy with work."

By chance, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, deliberately brought up the matter of his old friend in front of Shirou Emiya, lying without any embarrassment.

After all, Shimura Danzo had once followed Shirou Emiya.

Sarutobi Hiruzen did not want the two of them to meet, nor did he want to see Shimura Danzo find an opportunity to exploit Tsuchihara Emiya.

The situation in Konoha has stabilized.

Shimura Danzo once held considerable power in Konoha Village, should not harbor any further ambitions. The current Konoha no longer needs Shimura Danzo to play any role; under the Hokage's orders, he should simply retire peacefully and await his burial.

This was something that Shimura Danzo could not tolerate.

As an ambitious man, Shimura Danzo had no desire to be content with his lot, which fueled his renewed murderous intent towards Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had always suppressed him.

Certainly.

Shimura Danzo would certainly not be able to do it himself.

The old man could only rely on his ally Orochimaru, who was away from home, and he also wanted to know when Orochimaru would send him back a Rinnegan.

However, the busy Orochimaru had no time to pay attention to Shimura Danzo.

Orochimaru had long since stopped Shimura Danzo seriously, and all of this naturally fell into the hands of his "chief steward," Yakushi Kabuto.

After all, Orochimaru needed a lot of time to research the Impure World Reincarnation in order to make the ninjas he Impure World Reincarnation in the future stronger. He also needed to research the Reaper Death Seal Technique in order to Impure World Reincarnation the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and he needed to research the cloning and replication project proposed by Emiya Tsuchihara in order to achieve immortality.

Time is slowly passing by.

As Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha of Konoha grew faster and faster, Orochimaru finally made a breakthrough in one of his projects. He finally found a way to break through the body of Death Reaper in the dusty documents.

"There exists a Death God Mask that can connect to the Underworld."

"Put on that mask."

"In this way, we call upon the coming of Death Reaper."

"By sacrificing the caster's soul, the body of the Death Reaper is broken open, freeing the souls within from their deathly stillness."

"Truly able to ascend to heaven and return to the Pure Land."

This mask has been kept sealed away in the Uzumaki Clan Mask Storage Hall in Konoha.

After all, very few people in the Shinobi World knew about the forbidden technique of the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, let alone the method to undo Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

"Konoha— "

Orochimaru flipped through the scroll that recorded the secrets of the Uzumaki Clan, a complex look flashing in his snake-like eyes. "Truly, it's our homeland, which we can never bypass in our destiny."

"Lord Orochimaru?"

Yakushi Kabuto cautiously tried to probe Orochimaru's thoughts.

However, Orochimaru didn't hide anything from him, narrowing his eyes. "Let's figure out how to get that mask first..."

This task—

Naturally, this was left to Yakushi Kabuto to handle.

This task wasn't particularly troublesome, nor was it particularly safe. Orochimaru wasn't comfortable entrusting it to anyone else, so he felt it was safer to let Yakushi Kabuto handle it.

After all, Konoha is not weak now.

Orochimaru's former comrades Jiraiya and Tsunade were both in Konoha Village, making it inconvenient for him to travel Konoha.

If they accidentally find out, it will definitely be troublesome.

"Oh, right."

"Let's try to contact Danzo."

"I have already devised a plan to deal with Shirou Emiya, but this plan may require Danzo's help to some extent."

"Yes."

Yakushi Kabuto immediately nodded in agreement.

"What plan?"

Obito Uchiha inquired about Orochimaru's so-called plan, and asked with some contempt, "What is your plan? All these years, you've been claiming to be working hard to perfect the Impure World Reincarnation, but I haven't seen a single result from you."

According to their original plan

In order to eliminate Shirou Emiya, Orochimaru would try his best to create an Impure World Reincarnation army composed of powerful individuals. However, he has not been able to Impure World Reincarnation, and he has not even been able to Impure World Reincarnation the most powerful First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

Orochimaru's reasoning was quite simple.

The reincarnated Hashirama Senju is too weak to be of any use; he is no match for Emiya Tsuchihara.

It's not very useful at all.

The Impure World Reincarnation Hashirama Senju is too powerful to be controlled, and he will easily break free from Orochimaru's control. It's not impossible for him to kill Orochimaru with a single move. It's like being trapped in a vicious cycle.

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, a slow smile playing on his lips. He chose to ignore Obito Uchiha's rudeness and brought up his true thoughts.

"Never mind."

"Since you're in such a hurry—"

"Then I'll just tell you my original manufacturing plan."

"If we can't control the First Hokage—."

"Then why bother trying to control him?"

"We've been overlooking one thing all along: our original purpose in using the Impure World Reincarnation was to fight against that big shot. Therefore, we had to be extremely careful to avoid any possibility of the Impure World Reincarnation going out of control and to prevent him from discovering our true intentions."

"But-"

"When we really start confronting him."

"Perhaps there's no need to hide one's true intentions, nor is there any need to concern oneself with whether the Impure World Reincarnation individuals are out of control."

"As long as Yakushi Kabuto gets the mask."

"As long as I use the mask to break the Reaper Death Seal and release the soul within the Death Reaper, I can use the Impure World Reincarnation to revive all the deceased Hokage, even if these Hokage retain their former power and thus go out of control—."

"However, when these deceased Hokage learned at the opportune moment that Shirou Emiya's will had changed,

Knowing that Shirou Emiya was secretly plotting a notorious scheme to overthrow the Shinobi World, they would inevitably become his enemies.

"We only need to be a wisp of wind."

"A wisp of wind that stirs up a storm throughout the entire Shinobi World— "

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, as if he had attained enlightenment and understood everything. He didn't care at all about the outcome of the battle between the out-of-control Hokage and Shirou Emiya.

Orochimaru only wanted to create a major incident to truly break free from Shirou Emiya's control, so that he could safely hide in a corner and obtain true immortality.

To be honest.

Actually, he is living a very stable life now.

However, Shirou Emiya could pose a threat to his safety at any time.

This seemingly peaceful and stable life actually harbored a crisis where one's life and death were not in one's own control, which Orochimaru simply could not tolerate.

He is now.

Just like the Shinobi World now.

Despite the fact that the Shinobi World was already harboring a turbulent undercurrent that could destroy everything, it had maintained a repulsive calm under Shirou Emiya's suppression.

Silence implies deathly stillness.

Orochimaru doesn't like quiet at all.

Move.

It means life.

Orochimaru always loves to move.

Yakushi Kabuto stood respectfully in place, watching Orochimaru, whose face showed a hint of ferocity, and Obito Uchiha, who seemed lost in thought, before silently lowering his head.

Orochimaru's plan.

It does seem to be feasible.

Deep underground in the shadows.

A White Zetsu Clone was swimming rapidly.

This White Zetsu Clone, which had been separately assigned to secretly monitor Orochimaru, told its main body the whole story of Orochimaru and Obito Uchiha's conspiracy.

"What to do?"

White Zetsu form showed a hint of worry, and said softly, "We need to deliver this message to Lord Shirou immediately, in case something really happens—"

"No."

Black Zetsu quickly shook its head, a sinister smile suddenly flashing across its face, "Perhaps this is also an opportunity to let Wei Yuan know that he and those Konoha ninjas should never have any ties, only we and he are on his side—"

"This might cause some trouble—"

White Zetsu had to remind Black Zetsu, hoping Black Zetsu would take Shirou Emiya's safety seriously. "Even if Lord Shirou's power is strong enough, dealing with the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, and two Hokage who have mastered space-time techniques—."

"Rest assured!"

"There will be no danger!"

Black Zetsu was exceptionally confident in Shirou Emiya, and even had its own contingency plan. "Actually, I really hope that Wei Yuan will encounter danger."

Black Zetsu couldn't help but imagine the future. "When Wei Yuan is truly in danger, we can have Nagato use the Rinnegan to truly revive him."

"At that time—"

"Even Hashirama Senju— "

"And he couldn't possibly be a match for Wei Yuan."

But.·

Black Zetsu did not block all intelligence channels.

When Yakushi Kabuto came to Konoha on a mission to find the Death God Mask, he took the opportunity to inform Shirou Emiya 'Orochimaru plan.

"Let's proceed according to Orochimaru's plan."

Shirou Emiya didn't care about Orochimaru's conspiracy at all, nor did he care about the potential threat this plan might pose. The only thing he cared about was Black Zetsu's opinion.

Theoretically speaking...

Yakushi Kabuto shouldn't be the first.

Black Zetsu should have been the first to send this intelligence.

If Black Zetsu did not submit this information, it means that Black Zetsu may have other ideas. It could even be said that Orochimaru's plan to make Shirou Emiya and Konoha truly become enemies is in line with Black Zetsu's thoughts.

Black Zetsu was genuinely afraid of being influenced by the reincarnation of Ashura's Chakra.

It looks like...

I need to give it a little something to sweeten things up.

For example.-·

The conspiracy laid bare before us?

Let this conspiracy continue, and let Black Zetsu truly realize that he will be devoted to it?

In that case—

That aligns with Shirou Emiya's idea.

The only thing needed is that Orochimaru's scheme might require a slight adjustment.

That's fine.

Shirou Emiya tapped his fingers together and said softly, "If Orochimaru wants to create a gust of wind to turn a windmill, the windmill should always respond—"

Yakushi Kabuto didn't quite understand.

"Although the plan was devised by Orochimaru—."

Shirou Emiya clasped his hands together. He had some knowledge of intrigue and conspiracy. "But let me help him choose the time and place for this plan, as well as the people who might be involved in this storm—"