Life Is but a Dream, Death but a Rest

"You didn't honestly think I hadn't noticed what you were doing behind my back, did you?"

"I wanted to see whether you could put up an entertaining struggle in the end. But sadly, even your threats sound like you're trying to be cute."

Xuanye slowly surveyed the area and noticed something off about the number of Explosive Tags.

Konan could print Explosive Tags with her Paper Release, but she couldn't conjure them out of thin air.

To print this many physical Explosive Tags, Konan still had to pay for the basic materials.

The Chakra Test Paper used to make Explosive Tags wasn't cheap, either. Without Kakuzu's funding, Konan's ability to print them had clearly diminished.

There were nowhere near six hundred billion Explosive Tags here, but there were still thirty to fifty million.

That was no small number. Whether all the major ninja villages combined had used that many Explosive Tags across three Ninja World Wars was open to question.

Yet Konan had printed this many all by herself.

It showed just how valuable Konan was strategically.

When Nagato saw that Xuanye wasn't staring at his eyes but had turned his gaze on Konan, a clear look of desire even appearing in his own, he silently stepped into Uchiha Genya's line of sight. His eyes filled with intense wariness.

You Evil Uchiha, what are you planning to do to Konan?

Nagato had already lost one companion. He absolutely could not lose another.

These Explosive Tags were Konan's last trump card, yet Uchiha Genya didn't seem to care in the slightest.

In such a cramped space, any living creature ought to fear an explosion this dense.

Konan wanted to try threatening him again, or at least find some sign that Uchiha Genya was only pretending to be calm.

Instead, she saw