"Akatsuki's leader, Pain, is just a corpse, and someone is controlling them from behind the scenes?"
Tsunade frowned as she asked.
Zhou Cheng nodded. Nagato, for Konoha's sake, I have no choice but to sell you out!
"The Six Paths are just six corpses!"
"Energy is transmitted through those Black Rods embedded in their bodies."
Everyone sucked in a sharp breath!
They were stunned. Just by controlling corpses, someone could wield Kage-level power.
Then how terrifyingly powerful must the person behind them be?
"I took out two of them."
Everyone was shocked again. He had actually managed to kill two enemies under those circumstances?
"Only later did I realize that their targets had been the tailed beasts all along!"
"While they had the entire shinobi world focused on Iwagakure, Akatsuki's other members were carrying out other operations!"
"They captured Kumogakure's Two-Tails jinchūriki and Kirigakure's Six-Tails Jinchuriki!"
An uproar broke out!
Everyone had already been shocked numb!
One revelation after another left their scalps tingling.
Zhou Cheng looked at Tsunade. "You need to pay more attention to Naruto's safety!"
"When a tailed beast is extracted from its jinchūriki, the jinchūriki dies!"
"And if Akatsuki gets every tailed beast, it'll be a catastrophe."
"Most people will die!"
"Shinobi villages, shinobi, samurai-none of them will exist anymore!"
Everyone fell silent at Zhou Cheng's words.
They absolutely could not let Akatsuki capture all the tailed beasts.
"Naruto, you're forbidden from leaving Konoha indefinitely!"
Frowning, Tsunade issued the order in her capacity as Hokage!
Naruto's face immediately twisted in anguish.
With his personality, being confined to the village would be absolute torture.
"No!"
He let out an agonized groan.
"Naruto, Lady Tsunade is doing this for your own good!"
"Bear with it!"
"You need to improve your strength quickly. Once you can protect yourself, no