A few days later.
Amegakure.
Inside the gloomy tower, where daylight never reached, cold rainwater dripped through the seams in the steel.
Nagato's emaciated body was pierced with black rods. His Rinnegan watched indifferently as rippling, vortex-like distortions appeared out of thin air before him.
Obito, clad in a black robe patterned with red clouds, stepped out of them.
"You're here."
Nagato's voice was as calm as ever, devoid of any emotion.
Konan stood beside Nagato, also dressed in an Akatsuki robe. Her beautiful but icy face was fixed on Obito with a cold stare.
"Uchiha Obito."
Konan spoke.
Obito's body trembled.
A sense of foreboding rose within him.
"I don't understand what you mean."
"You don't?"
Konan sneered and shot several sheets of paper toward Obito.
Obito raised a hand and caught them.
They were intelligence reports from several different channels.
Konoha Bulletin: Uchiha Yao, the new head of the Uchiha Clan, publicly put the traitor Uchiha Itachi on trial at Naka Shrine and exposed the shocking truth behind the Nine-Tails' attack!
Hidden Sand Village Secret Report: The Uchiha Clan has identified the true culprit behind the Nine-Tails' attack as Uchiha Obito, the Konoha hero who was supposed to be dead!
Underground Bounty Exchange Emergency Warrant: The Uchiha Clan has emptied its coffers to offer a bounty of five hundred million ryo for Uchiha Obito's head!
Every report said roughly the same thing.
Uchiha Yao!
That bastard again!
Not only had he seriously injured him, but he had also ruined Uchiha Itachi, the piece he had arranged in advance.
And now, he had even made his identity public!
At that moment, Obito wished he could cut Uchiha Yao into a thousand pieces.
Without the identity of Uchiha Madara, many of his plans would be shelved and thrown into disarray.