In Amegakure, below Yahiko and Konan on the top floor, came Kakuzu.
Kakuzu had studied economics in Xuanhui's Library and taken charge of Amegakure's finance department.
Sitting beside him was young Hidan.
Hidan was currently imitating Kakuzu's meticulous demeanor as he stared at the test paper in front of him.
"If the collision between the objects is perfectly elastic..."
Beside his hand lay the textbooks and past exam papers Xuanhui had sent.
Kakuzu couldn't possibly have him study nothing but economics. First, he had to sharpen that clever mind!
Farther down was Kisame's room, currently empty.
On the bottom floor, Sasori watched over his warehouse. A bed in the corner and a workbench were all he needed to live there.
Every other inch of the warehouse was piled with his puppets!
Back then, Xuanhui had given Sasori books containing specialized knowledge on general machinery, technological inventions, and related subjects.
Sasori had also realized that simply turning corpses into puppets and controlling them took far too little technical skill!
If he was going to modify them, he would turn them into living weapons like the leader's Asura Path!
Nagato sometimes sent the Asura Path to check on Sasori, too.
These days, Nagato had to stay on the top floor to control the weather and conduct surveillance.
As a result, he relied entirely on the Six Paths of Pain to handle business outside.
The Deva Path used Raiga Kurosuki's corpse, while the Human Path used the corpse of some nameless troublemaker.
The Naraka Path used Kushimaru Kuriarare's corpse, while the Animal Path used Munashi Jinpachi's corpse.
The Preta Path used Suikazan Fuguki's corpse, while the Asura Path used Jinin Akebino's corpse.
Those six had owed most of their fame to the swords in their hands.
When they were killed, Xuanhui had already