"Would one month be enough?"
Pain finally approved Cangyue's request for leave.
He had originally had no intention of entertaining such an absurd request.
But on second thought, Cangyue would run back to Konoha himself even if he refused.
The fact that this guy was willing to sit here and go through the leave application process was already a courtesy to the Akatsuki.
"You're actually letting him go?"
Hidan, whom Kakuzu had just stitched back together, abruptly got up and raised his hand high.
"Then I want time off too!"
Whoosh!
A black rod shot through the air and instantly pinned him back to the floor.
Hidan's eyes widened.
"Leader, you can't play favorites!"
"Why does he get to go out and have fun while we have to stay here and work?"
Cangyue had been about to leave, but those words made him stop in his tracks.
He looked around the meeting hall, lost in thought.
"Come to think of it, a few of you don't seem to have ninja ranks either."
An ominous feeling rose in everyone's hearts at once.
Cangyue clapped his hands.
"Why don't we all enter together?"
The meeting hall abruptly fell silent.
Everyone stared at him as though he were insane.
Who were they?
A bunch of S-rank Missing-nin on the major ninja villages' highest-priority wanted lists.
Every nation wanted to grind their bones to dust.
And now Cangyue was inviting them to head to Konoha as a group and take the Chunin Ninja Exams?
How was that any different from walking up to the authorities and turning themselves in?
Pain was the first to shake his head.
"Ninja ranks mean nothing to us."
"Genin, Chunin, and Jonin are merely standards the conventional ninja villages use to classify strength and authority."
"Wrong!"
Cangyue raised a