One Fish, Many Meals

Every ninja village had lost a staggering amount of funding for defying its Daimyo's orders. They were barely scraping by.

How could they possibly have enough money left to hire the Akatsuki Organization?

Uchiha Genya was now a blade hanging over every noble's head. In the Land of Fire, nearly every noble who had stepped out of line had already been purged.

Even those who had behaved had lost most of their estates. They would spend the rest of their lives as wealthy idlers with just enough to live comfortably.

How could nobles accustomed to having their every need met accept being stripped of so much?

Xuanye turned to Orochimaru and smiled. "You saw the intelligence Kabuto sent back, didn't you? What do you think?"

Pain, the leader of the Akatsuki Organization, had a pair of Rinnegan.

None of their previous intelligence had mentioned that. The Akatsuki Organization's importance—and the threat it posed—had just risen several levels.

Orochimaru had fought Otsutsuki Urashiki. He knew how powerful a genuine Rinnegan could be.

His expression immediately turned serious.

"My lord, I suggest we gather every elite fighter in Konoha, storm Amegakure, and take back the Rinnegan that belong to us!"

How dare the leader of some Rogue Ninja Organization wear Konoha's Rinnegan in his own eye sockets?

The Otsutsuki corpse they had obtained last time was already missing its eyes, cutting its value by at least half. Only the Otsutsuki Cells were still worth studying.

Besides, those eyes had ended up in Xuanye's hands. No matter how badly Orochimaru wanted the Rinnegan, he could hardly ask Xuanye for them.

This time was different. They had confirmed that the Akatsuki Organization's leader possessed a pair of Rinnegan, and in less than two months undercover, Kabuto had even uncovered the organization's ultimate goal.

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