"Teacher."
Nagato appeared outside the wooden cabin.
He glanced through the window and saw Konan sleeping peacefully, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Wuye could still see the bloodshot veins in his eyes.
But unlike before, Nagato no longer carried that madness and brutality.
Perhaps he had merely buried it deep within his heart...
"Has that statue been dealt with?"
Wuye stood beneath the eaves beside him.
"It has. I left it at the base for now," Nagato said.
Wuye nodded, then asked casually, "Do you know what it is used for?"
"Used for?"
Nagato froze for a moment, then considered it. "I think it is a special weapon, one that only the Rinnegan can summon."
"It can absorb tailed beasts, all of them," Wuye suddenly said. "If you can gather every tailed beast, you can even use it to directly destroy an entire country."
"Destroy... an entire country..."
Nagato's gaze became vacant.
At this point, he had yet to figure out what he wanted to do, or whether he should pursue power.
"Teacher," he said, looking over with some confusion, "how do you know what the Gedo Statue does?"
"Because this thing has some connection to Konoha. I am the Hokage, so naturally I know a little more," Wuye said.
"It is connected to Konoha?" Nagato frowned.
Wuye nodded. "You carry Uzumaki Clan blood, while the Rinnegan is inseparable from Konoha's Uchiha Clan and Senju Clan..."
Nagato's mind was a complete mess.
But that was not what concerned him. The moment he heard the words Uchiha Clan, his eyes suddenly turned fierce.
"Teacher, I saw the eyes of the ninja who took Yahiko away. Although the pattern was strange, they looked like Sharingan—the Sharingan of Konoha's Uchiha Clan!"
Nagato turned and stared at Wuye's profile, speaking each