Ants

Almost at the same moment, two groups of Akatsuki members, separated by a thousand miles, entered the caves before them.

Akatsuki had officially joined the hunt for Danzo!

Drip...

Drip...

Inside the dark, damp cave, the sound of dripping water came and went.

"The Hokage belongs to me. The village belongs to me. The ninja world... the ninja world belongs to me too... It's all mine. Everything is mine..."

Sitting on the ground, Danzo continued muttering to himself.

An eerie gleam flickered intermittently in his crimson eyes, and his entire being exuded an indescribable wickedness.

At that moment, footsteps approached from afar, echoing faintly through the cave.

"They're here..."

The corner of Danzo's mouth curled into a strange smile.

A moment later, a group of figures entered Danzo's field of vision.

Danzo looked at them and smiled with an almost fascinated expression. "So this is the Rinnegan? What an intoxicating treasure!"

There was no doubt that the ones standing before Danzo were the Six Paths of Pain, their eye sockets filled with Rinnegan patterns. In this one-in-two draw, the Six Paths of Pain had clearly been lucky enough to run into the real target.

The Deva Path gazed coldly at Danzo. Its eyes lingered briefly on Danzo's eerie Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan before it said calmly, "So it really is the Mangekyō Sharingan."

Nagato did not seem particularly surprised or concerned that Danzo truly possessed a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan as rumored. To him, they were merely a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan.

Danzo rose from the ground. "I didn't expect you to be the first ones to find this place. Fine. Today, I'll see for myself what the Rinnegan can do!"

Facing the Six Paths of Pain that had once destroyed Konoha, Danzo showed no fear whatsoever. His crimson Sharingan