"Hmm?"
Upon hearing Konan say that—especially when she proposed trading Nagato's Rinnegan for Yahiko's life—Uchiha Yue was genuinely stunned.
Based on what Uchiha Yue knew from the original storyline, although the relationship between Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato was somewhat complicated, it had always seemed unbreakable. Who would have thought that, for Yahiko's life, Konan would actually offer Nagato's Rinnegan as the price and beg Uchiha Yue to save Yahiko?
Thus, after being stunned for a moment, Uchiha Yue fixed Konan before him with an indifferent gaze and asked, "Do I need Nagato's Rinnegan?"
"Don't you?"
The moment Uchiha Yue finished speaking, Konan sneered and threw the question back at him.
Then, before Uchiha Yue, Konan revealed her perceptive side and slowly said, "Uchiha Yue, you never truly cared about joining our Akatsuki. Neither Yahiko nor Nagato ever moved you. From the very beginning, you joined Akatsuki only because you needed somewhere to stay! Not only I know this—even Yahiko knows that you were severely wounded in Konoha and needed to find a safe place to recover."
"And our Akatsuki could provide you with such a place. That was why you joined Akatsuki!"
"However, from the changes you showed afterward, I realized that you had changed!"
"Your goal was no longer simply to recover here. So what was your purpose in Akatsuki?"
Konan paused slightly. Then, the sneer curling her lips grew even more pronounced as she said to Uchiha Yue, "Our Akatsuki is not as strong as Konoha. Since you weren't even afraid of a shinobi village like Konoha, Akatsuki must mean even less than nothing to you. The only truly valuable things in our organization are intelligence and Nagato's Rinnegan! Therefore, Uchiha Yue, what you are after must be Nagato's Rinnegan!"
"Now that I'm offering Nagato's Rinnegan as the