This man was sitting within the Sakura Dragon's space.
A group of people gradually arrived around him.
"Welcome, everyone."
Pain greeted the several black silhouettes present.
After Sparkle spread the masks around, these masks that ignored spatial barriers gradually turned this space into a gathering place.
Everyone would come here on Monday afternoons and wholeheartedly "socialize."
On the one hand, everyone in this space existed only as phantoms, making it impossible for them to fight one another.
On the other hand, there was also a "Memory Battlefield" in this space.
The Sakura Dragon's strength was absurdly overpowered. No one could clear it at this point, so they could only hold meetings with each other.
Each time they conquered a level of the Memory Battlefield, they could obtain more information.
Everyone coveted this miraculous space, but none of them had any way to claim it for themselves.
"So there's still been no progress in clearing it?"
A hoarse-voiced man asked.
—That was right. It was Orochimaru.
"The Sakura Dragon is very powerful. After defeating it at a lower difficulty, the next time we face it, the difficulty will increase." Pain had challenged several difficulty levels, but he was still stuck at SS difficulty.
"Then what do you intend to do?" Orochimaru asked.
"If we had 'tailed beasts,' perhaps their abilities could help us..."
"..."
When Naruto heard that, his entire body trembled.
Why did people everywhere want tailed beasts?
Naruto finding the mask had supposedly been an "accident," but it had actually been arranged by Sparkle.
Unfortunately, this kid Naruto was useless.
"If he were any random transmigrator from an online novel, he'd have turned this golden finger into something incredible."
Sparkle sighed slightly.
Pain was no good either. He still had not cleared the Sakura Dragon at SS difficulty.
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