Nagato said, "Only now are you certain? Your sharpness and dullness truly coexist."
Minato said sternly, "More importantly... why are you here?"
Nagato gave a faint, unreadable smile. "You should have more or less realized why I'm here."
Minato's expression turned grim.
When I visited Amegakure, I vaguely sensed it through Sage Mode. There had been another dark, ominous chakra atop that tower. Yet when I reached Nagato's side, that chakra vanished without warning...
Thinking about it now, both the nature of that chakra and the method of its disappearance matched Obito.
So that was it... was it?
A Sword of Shinobi Love landed in Minato's hand once more.
"Are you and Obito accomplices...?"
"Obito? Ah, you mean the masked man who called himself Madara. He did approach me and ask me to help carry out tonight's plan."
"And I did agree, verbally."
"Are you saying that from beginning to end, you did nothing harmful to Konoha? Including attacking the village that night and taking the Scroll of Seals?"
"How many times must I say it? Pain attacked Konoha. It had nothing to do with me, Nagato. As for this Scroll of Seals you mentioned, I have no idea what you're talking about."
Minato said, "You're still denying it? You clearly used my Flying Thunder God Technique!"
Nagato said, "Flying Thunder God? Ah, do you mean the method I used to get here? You misunderstand. That was my own Running Thunder God Technique, complete with a certified patent. It's different from a certain someone sneaking into another person's village late at night instead of holding his wife, corrupting innocent civilians with indecent publications..."
Minato sighed softly.
"Nagato, you really are impossible to pin down. Fine, I'll believe that you didn't actually participate in tonight's Nine-Tails incident..."
"Will you tell me