Konan looked at Nagato Uzumaki beside her and silently made up her mind. Once she had taken Nagato back to Amegakure, she would go to Konoha to find Qingyun. She needed to confirm whether Yahiko was alive.
The foreboding she had felt when Nagato fought that Mysterious Ninja, the Mysterious Ninja's use of Qingyun's signature technique, Fengshen Leg, and Nagato's earlier suspicion that Qingyun had secretly taken Yahiko's body—all of it pointed in the same direction.
Every sign suggested that Qingyun knew the truth.
What she could not understand was why Yahiko had not reunited with them if he was still alive. She refused to believe that he had forgotten the bond they had forged, walking side by side from childhood to the present. She had to find Qingyun and get a clear answer.
Elsewhere, after shaking off Deva Path, Yahiko entered a Forest. Clenching his fists, he hammered the surrounding trees again and again. Even when his fists were slick with blood, he did not stop. The pain in his hands only drove him into a greater frenzy.
He wanted to use physical pain to suppress the torment in his heart.
This sudden encounter with Nagato, even if it had only been a puppet Nagato controlled, had brought the longing buried deep in his heart surging back. Yet he knew full well that with the Deva Path puppet present, Konan and Nagato had to be nearby.
Still, he did not dare meet them, afraid that his appearance would plunge Nagato and Konan into even greater danger.
After venting for a long time, Yahiko finally calmed down. He circulated his true energy and began stimulating the Sun-Moon Mark on his body.
Before long, Qingyun sensed the fluctuations from the Sun-Moon Mark and appeared beside Yahiko. Seeing the state he was