Deidara burst out laughing.
"Wouldn't it have been easier to do this from the start?"
Persuading people with words wasn't exactly any of their strong suits.
Konan was a straightforward person. For years, she'd done whatever Nagato told her to do.
Deidara had devoted himself entirely to art. Negotiations? He'd rather discuss that with his art!
And there was no need to mention Itachi Uchiha. If he'd been good at talking things out, he wouldn't have gotten himself stuck in a dead end and slaughtered his entire clan at someone else's command.
The tense atmosphere among the three of them eased the moment they began fighting.
Deidara immediately took to the sky on a clay bird, hurling down all kinds of Clay Bombs he'd prepared in advance.
Konan performed her signature Dance of the Shikigami, turning her body into countless sheets of white paper that fluttered through the air before gathering into spears and butterflies to attack Lin Qing.
Itachi Uchiha stayed a little way from the heart of the battlefield, coldly watching how Lin Qing responded as he considered something else—
Itachi's original plan had been to capture Orochimaru and use genjutsu to force the method of saving Sasuke out of him.
But Orochimaru was dead, so he had to change his plan.
As Itachi saw it, Lin Qing had gone after Orochimaru for revenge. He didn't know what the DISC pulled from Orochimaru's body was for, but there was no way Lin Qing could use it to treat Sasuke.
Itachi Uchiha had learned that Sasuke was receiving treatment in Konoha.
"If Lin Qing makes it back alive, even if Sasuke recovers, he'll leave Konoha with Lin Qing again. So, from the Konoha High Command's perspective, they definitely won't spend their resources treating him with everything they have. Sasuke