On the other side.
Inside a room at the base.
When Nagato and Konan saw the clone appear, their expressions both darkened.
Nagato respectfully asked Clone Yuzhen, "Yuzhen-kun, is the plan about to begin?"
To be honest, even now, Nagato still thought that plan was somewhat outrageous.
That day—
Uchiha Yuzhen had come to see him and Konan, saying they would stage a scene where Hiruko escaped by chance and rescued them.
When Nagato and Konan heard the plan, they immediately thought it sounded absurd.
Hiruko, the rogue ninja from Konoha, was fairly strong in Nagato's eyes.
With two Kekkei Genkai, Steel Release and Swift Release, he was more than capable of matching a village's Kage.
But escaping by chance from the strongest prison in the Ninja World with that level of strength? It was utterly ridiculous!
That didn't mean it was impossible.
After all, with the countless ninjutsu, secret techniques, and forbidden techniques in the Ninja World, if there were a suitable way to counter the prison...
Then escaping alive wasn't impossible!
But to escape from Uchiha Yuzhen's prison, Nagato thought someone would have to be stronger than Hanzo at the very least!
He had voiced that concern to Uchiha Yuzhen at the time.
But Uchiha Yuzhen had only given him an even greater shock.
Hiruko, who had been following him, had undergone a complete transformation in strength in less than a day.
As if enlightened in an instant, he had learned Sage Mode and Dance of the Shikigami in a mere day!
And there was also the miraculous change in his physical strength, which Nagato's Rinnegan could scarcely believe.
With these several enhancements, Hiruko's apparent strength... had indeed just barely surpassed Hanzo's.
It was precisely this near-miraculous transformation in Hiruko that convinced Nagato to agree to play out