After a while.
He realized that the battle in the sky wouldn't be decided anytime soon. Then he remembered Uchiha Yuzhen saying earlier that he would hold back.
"So the fight definitely won't end that quickly."
After a sigh, Nagato sorted out the situation and turned around, looking to the right, in the three o'clock direction.
He said coldly:
"Come out, both of you. My Rinnegan has already detected you."
As soon as Nagato finished speaking, Konan and Hiruko also warily looked in that direction.
Tap, tap, tap...
Footsteps sounded. Uchiha Dairen, with Black Zetsu clinging to him, appeared in front of the three.
He looked at them.
His gaze locked onto Nagato:
"As expected of the Rinnegan. The slightest sound gives you away."
"But Nagato, what happened to your body?"
If he remembered correctly, Nagato's body had been crippled, hadn't it?
So how was this Uzumaki Nagato, standing steadily on his feet and looking full of energy?
The unexpected situation made him voice the questions in his mind without thinking.
At that moment.
Black Zetsu flowed off his right shoulder and onto the ground beside him like liquid.
In the blink of an eye.
He stood up again, using the Transformation Technique to take on the Akatsuki uniform. He, too, looked at them in confusion.
He turned his gaze toward...
Nagato, Konan, and Hiruko.
He also began to wonder to himself.
Nagato's transformation
had caught him off guard.
He wanted to ask outright what had happened.
But as the subordinate of "Uchiha Madara" in public, he couldn't speak up too much after Lord "Madara" had asked his question.
Fortunately, Dairen's questions were the same as his.
At that moment—
He wanted to hear Nagato's explanation to Dairen.
So he could determine
what exactly had happened!
At this, Nagato replied