"Hmph..."
Danzo grunted.
His subordinate, Kano, moved beside him.
He took out a scroll.
Next,
he placed it on the ground and unfurled it.
"Release!"
As the boy's voice rang out,
there was a bang, and smoke spread, revealing a pile of components.
Orochimaru's half-smiling expression quickly gained a trace of surprise.
"This is... the Third Kazekage?"
The pile of components on the ground was almost a complete Third Kazekage.
Danzo's subordinates, who had been scattered everywhere, found the Human Puppet buried at the mountaintop.
They recovered it.
"It's the Third Kazekage's Human Puppet."
Danzo corrected him.
"Oh~?"
Orochimaru's eyes lit up.
Of course, he had heard of Sasori of the Red Sands and his Human Puppets.
But he hadn't expected...
"Sasori of the Red Sands even killed the Third Kazekage..."
So,
the one who killed the Strongest Kazekage wasn't anyone else—it was him!
"Deal."
Orochimaru readily agreed to Shimura Danzō's request.
He would make a move against Hyuga Sho.
In exchange, he would receive the Third Kazekage's Human Puppet.
There would inevitably be the deceased's DNA on the Human Puppet. In other words... it was the perfect material for Impure World Reincarnation.
Land of Rain.
The cave where the Akatsuki Organization had originally hidden.
Uchiha Obito, Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, and Tobi.
Along with Hiruko and the others, stood inside the cave.
Looking through the enormous crack, they could see the rain drifting outside.
The continuous rain showed no sign of stopping, eternally enveloping this country.
A moment later,
several shadows were projected over.
They looked colorful and constantly distorted, like a television signal that had lost its clarity.
"Limbo: Heavenly's Illusion Technique."
Pain's technique.
One of the Rinnegan's abilities.
Pain received the "thought waves" released by Akatsuki members, which had been converted from Chakra.
He amplified those