Control Amegakure, Kill Hanzo

Akatsuki headquarters, in a gloomy underground chamber, before the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

"Leader, you have to stand up for me! Senior Simu went way too far—he actually impersonated me to do something like that!"

Wearing his mask, Tobi rolled around on one of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's fingers, accusing Simu of the atrocities he had committed against him.

"You have no idea. Whenever I go to the Land of Wind or the Land of Fire now, those ninja try to capture me the moment they see me. I was almost caught several times!"

By the end, Tobi even sounded a little tearful.

No one present paid him any attention.

Anyone who had spent a few days with Tobi knew that the guy was acting from beginning to end.

Simu had personally witnessed Tobi's incredible intangibility ability. With that ability, ninja from the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire were chasing him?

It would have been good enough if he did not hunt them down instead!

Simu had just been about to offer a few perfunctory words when Hidan spoke up first.

"Come on, Tobi. Simu only used your name and mask, right? Why are you being so petty? If people are after you, just switch masks."

Upon hearing Hidan's words, the usually quick-witted Tobi suddenly froze.

"Seems... true?"

Both the name Tobi and the mask on his face were fake. Wouldn't changing masks solve the problem entirely?

"But..."

Tobi seemed to want to say something else, but Pain, standing in the middle, interrupted him.

"Enough. Stop arguing over such a trivial matter."

Pain was, after all, everyone's nominal leader. Once he spoke, the others showed him some respect.

The area immediately fell silent. Even Tobi, who usually loved to whine and fuss,