But this time was different.
The leader of Akatsuki had launched a massive attack.
And it was an outright frontal assault on the Six Kage Summit.
With the Rinnegan plainly on display and such extraordinary strength,
Jiraiya could no longer deny it.
Tsunade didn't hesitate in the slightest. She nodded firmly.
"This is something we can be certain of, Jiraiya. That leader is one hundred percent the boy you took care of back then! But judging by the appearances of the three boys you described, the first one to appear—the Pain who seemed most like the real body—looked more like the boy named Yahiko than Nagato. The hair color makes it very clear: it was a bright orange, not the red hair you described Nagato as having."
"Huh? That's impossible. The one with the Rinnegan was Nagato, absolutely not Yahiko. I can be one hundred percent certain of that. When I was teaching the three of them, it was Nagato who showed me the Rinnegan with my own eyes!"
Jiraiya's expression shifted slightly. Then he shook his head firmly, his tone full of conviction.
"Wait a minute, Tsunade. What did you just say? That he seemed like the real body?"
Then, as if something had suddenly occurred to him,
without waiting for Tsunade to continue,
Jiraiya furrowed his brow and looked at her with a grave expression.
"Huh? Oh, that. It's something the Six Kage discovered during the battle with Pain. All six of them had the Rinnegan, and each had different abilities. But it was obvious they were all more like puppets, not the clones created by ninjutsu we'd first assumed. So we concluded that they were probably a form of living puppet, like the ones used in Sunagakure, with the real body's Rinnegan reflected onto them so they