Kisame Hoshigaki had always held only one definition in Ueno Kei's mind: enemy.
It was only because of some things Itachi had said, along with what Kisame Hoshigaki had just handed him, that Ueno Kei had not attacked the moment he saw Kisame Hoshigaki...
At the end of the day, Ueno Kei was still a self-interested person. As long as no one harmed his own interests, Konoha's interests, or the interests of those he cared about, what did it matter?
It was an old saying, but it always came back to the same thing: human nature was selfish.
Since Kisame Hoshigaki had never truly harmed Konoha's interests and could now provide necessary intelligence to Ueno Kei and Konoha, what was wrong with turning a blind eye to him?
He was a rogue Mist Ninja, not a rogue ninja from Konoha. Ueno Kei could not be bothered with how many people he had killed while in Akatsuki, so long as Konoha's interests were not involved.
The village's interests and his own interests came above all else!
That was Ueno Kei's only standard of value!
"Since you asked me to come here, the intelligence must be more than just what was in there, right?" Ueno Kei said calmly. To be fair, although his tone sounded relaxed and unconcerned, the intelligence from earlier had truly startled him...
For example, nearly a hundred thousand White Zetsu clones! For example, Yakushi Kabuto had already joined forces with Tobi, providing ninjas summoned through Impure World Reincarnation as fighting power. And for example, Konan had already been killed by Tobi, while Pain's Rinnegan had been taken by him!
In fact, when Ueno Kei had returned to Konoha and heard that Konan had been allowed to take Pain's corpse away, he had been somewhat dissatisfied. How could the