Hearing the location Mūyajō En had given him, Hyuga Yu raised an eyebrow.
Konoha. The Three-Tails.
He meant Nohara Rin, whom Kirigakure had implanted with the Three-Tails and sent to Konoha. Hyuga Yu knew the truth: Uchiha Madara had placed the Three-Tails under his control. It was Madara's ocular power within the beast that prevented Rin from functioning as a normal Jinchūriki and left her half-dead after her Partial Tailed Beast Transformation.
Rin was still lying in Konoha Hospital. Hyuga Yu had resolved the problem of her Yang Release becoming passive without Tailed Beast Chakra, but the beast itself remained. Because Madara's ocular power might still be inside the Three-Tails, Hyuga Yu would need another method to deal with it.
If Mūyajō En was right, Madara had foreseen this day. When he sealed the Three-Tails inside Rin, had he secretly left himself a way back in?
Was Madara trying to communicate with him through the ocular power lodged within the Three-Tails?
But Hyuga Yu was not the only person capable of removing that power. How could Madara be sure it would be him, rather than another Uchiha who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan?
The thought made Hyuga Yu frown. He still could not make sense of it.
Madara was dead, though. The ocular power left inside the Three-Tails was probably much like the chakra Minato Namikaze had left inside Naruto: it posed little threat. Rin's problem had to be dealt with eventually. When the time came, he would see what Madara had planned.
"The message has been delivered, so my duty is done." Mūyajō En shrugged at Hyuga Yu and asked calmly, without a hint of servility or defiance, "Do you still intend to kill me, Lord Heavenly Ninja?"
Hyuga Yu studied him. After a moment's consideration, he casually waved