What Deidara Wanted to Do for Sasori

"Big brother, why don't you come to our Stone Village? Neither the Sand Village nor Obito would dare cause trouble there."

"The old man likes art too. He'd definitely welcome you, big brother."

What Deidara said was both right and wrong.

As far as Ōnoki was concerned, he would certainly welcome Sasori—but definitely not because of art. It would be because of Sasori's strength.

Ordinary rogue ninja were despised everywhere, but powerful rogue ninja were highly sought after. Wherever they went, people tried to recruit them.

It was just that rogue ninja with that kind of strength were very difficult to recruit.

After all, someone like Sasori could contribute more on the battlefield than ten or twenty jonin.

Sasori's gaze shifted slightly. He genuinely felt Deidara's goodwill.

"Little Deidara, I appreciate the gesture. The main reason I joined the Moon Organization was to use its resources to search for intelligence about Konoha."

Deidara almost immediately understood.

"Big Brother Sasori, you mean intelligence about the Fourth Hokage being resurrected, right?"

Sasori did not hide it from Deidara. "That's it."

"Unfortunately, there's been no progress."

"Our Stone Village also has a large number of intelligence agents searching for it, but so far, none of the information has been useful."

"Still, Big Brother Sasori, you could look into Hidden Light Village's intelligence."

Sasori found that somewhat strange. "Why?"

Deidara answered, "Back when our Stone Village was doing missions in the Land of Rivers, we noticed a sudden change in the skies and went to investigate."

"At Hall, the Sacred Land of the Land of Rivers, Konoha's people and Obito were fighting over the legendary Spear of Heaven."

"Although the exact battle situation was unclear, our spies found out afterward—"

"Konoha Ninja had originally been carrying out a mission, but Hidden Light Village later