"The one who killed Gaara's father, the Fourth Kazekage, was Orochimaru, but you helped him, didn't you? And now there's our current Lord Kazekage, Gaara..."
Granny Chiyo looked at Sasori's youthful face, anger and shame creeping into her voice. She was furious that her grandson had inflicted so much damage on Sunagakure, and ashamed that she had failed to find him sooner and stop his atrocities.
As she spoke, Chiyo reached into her bundle. If she hadn't wanted to see more of Sasuke's full strength, her emotions would already have driven her to intervene.
"Hey, hey, I knew nothing about the Fourth Kazekage affair. It was my subordinate who acted as their inside man."
After hearing Granny Chiyo's accusation, Sasori casually pointed out the inaccuracies in it. Clearly, he didn't want to take the blame for something he hadn't done.
"How is that any different from doing it yourself? Can you really say you had nothing to do with it?"
Faced with Chiyo's condemnation, Sasori gave an indifferent smile.
"Orochimaru is an important partner of our Akatsuki. Without his help, we wouldn't have started hunting tailed beasts so soon. If you put it that way, I suppose you're not wrong."
Unlike in the previous life, when Orochimaru and the Akatsuki had worked to undermine and assassinate each other, in this life, they had conducted numerous transactions over the past three years under Madara's direction.
With the intelligence and resources Orochimaru supplied, the Akatsuki's development had advanced by leaps and bounds.
Orochimaru had also been among those sealing the tailed beast, though his relationship with the Akatsuki was more an equal partnership than one of subordination.
Since Chiyo had brought up Orochimaru, Sasori accepted the accusation that he had participated in the Fourth Kazekage's murder.
"Sasuke, speaking of which, you've caused