"Fujimoto, you said the dead people you encountered were a whole squad. Do you have any solid evidence?" Kakuzu suddenly asked.
Pain looked at the two of them, and Scorpion recounted what they had encountered.
"One of them was a wandering ninja I killed. I buried the body myself, so I never expected to see him here."
One of the people brought back through Impure World Reincarnation had indeed been killed by Fujimoto. But he had not been a wandering ninja. He was a spy from another country whom Fujimoto had killed while on duty with the Security Force.
Konoha was clearly involved somehow. Fujimoto planned to send Fugaku a secret message and decide what to do once he knew more.
"More than thirty dead ninja have been brought back to the Shinobi World. Whoever is behind this has something big in mind. I've never heard of a ninjutsu that could summon people back from the Pure Land."
Konan spoke, then glanced at Pain. Her meaning was clear: the Six Paths of Pain were puppets made from corpses.
Pain understood her perfectly. "What abilities did they have?"
"None. Many were no stronger than ordinary genin. They couldn't put up any resistance against me. But they were immortal.
"Even the worst wounds slowly healed."
"They're nothing like the puppets I've studied, either. There's something uncanny about them," Scorpion said.
Konan said, "The Shinobi World is changing too fast. If they can bring these genin back now, who's to say they can't bring back powerful ninja too?
"The Shinobi World has existed for over a thousand years. Countless ninja have died. Even if we consider just one village in one country, it's been over forty years, and countless powerful ninja have emerged.
"If they can bring those ninja back, even Konoha might