The Six Paths of Pain should have had six bodies, yet only the Deva Path was fighting Moriyue at the moment. Some might wonder where the other Paths of Pain had gone. Were they slacking off?
Of course not. The other Paths of Pain had their own tasks to handle. Otherwise, they would never have left Deva Path Pain to fight alone.
Take Animal Path Pain, for example. Jiraiya had not yet arrived in Amegakure, so Animal Path was naturally still alive and had not been destroyed by him. But he was not idle either. At the moment, he was busy capturing Ajisai.
That was right—capturing Ajisai. He had not originally come for her. Danzo had long since made arrangements with Nagato; they had more important matters to discuss this time. However, neither side trusted the other, so Danzo decided to send a squad to make contact with Nagato.
Unfortunately, their first meeting was interrupted by Ajisai, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. When Animal Path, who was responsible for the rendezvous, arrived at the meeting point, he was dumbfounded. These people were certainly sincere—were they so worried that staying alive would interfere with the negotiations that they had all killed themselves?
Obviously not. It was clearly Ajisai's doing. When Animal Path arrived at the scene, Ajisai was carving something into a ninja who had been tortured beyond recognition.
"Summoning Jutsu~"
Animal Path did not hesitate. Anyone appearing outside Amegakure at a time like this could not be up to any good. Besides, Ajisai had disrupted their negotiations. She had to die.
"Pssh~"
A gigantic three-headed hound appeared before Ajisai, its entire body coated in mud. A thick black metal rod pierced through its throat and skull, and it too possessed two enormous Rinnegan.
Mud constantly fell from its