Nagato suspected there was a mole tipping off Kumogakure, completely unaware that the Raikage was also cursing the unreliability of the information sent from Konoha.
Wasn't it said that only the leader of the Akatsuki Organization was coming to demonstrate their power?
How had so many people suddenly shown up?
Were they here for a team-building exercise or a field trip?
They hadn't even given any advance notice before rushing over for a group activity. How were they supposed to manage their schedule?!
"Hand over the Jinchuriki, or from this day onward, Kumogakure will be erased from the shinobi world!"
The moment Pain's Heavenly Path spoke, Aoba knew that Nagato was an old dragon turtle. That taunt had drawn aggro far too steadily.
With the Raikage's explosive temper, could he endure that?
Sure enough, the Raikage laughed furiously and said, "If Yasuo himself had come, I might have let it pass. But what are you lot? How dare you come to Kumogakure and run wild!"
What the hell?!
How did this involve me too?
Aoba, who had hidden nearby to watch the show, was somewhat dumbfounded. In his impression, the Raikage didn't seem like someone who could say such things. Could it be that their last fight had really beaten the Raikage into submission?
Aoba's expression gradually became rather strange.
But he didn't know that the Raikage had completely treated the other party's words as fart. He had deliberately put on this act and said those things.
The reason was naturally that the intelligence the Hokage had given him had clearly mentioned the instability within the Akatsuki Organization. If the leader of the Akatsuki arrived at Kumogakure first, the Hokage hoped that he could make an issue of this.
Even if he couldn't turn Yasuo and the Akatsuki against each