This was a test!!!
Capturing the tailed beasts was no longer difficult. Nagato alone could accomplish it. If pushed too far, Black Zetsu could revive Madara Uchiha ahead of schedule. With Madara Uchiha around, capturing the tailed beasts would only become easier. After planning for so many years and investing so much effort, Black Zetsu had absolute confidence in Madara Uchiha. Even if Hikaru had awakened the Rinnegan, Black Zetsu believed Madara Uchiha could handle him.
However, before reviving Madara Uchiha, Black Zetsu needed to test Hikaru's psychological limits and see where his bottom line lay.
This concerned Black Zetsu's entire series of future plans. There could be no carelessness.
"The Two-Tails is next."
What Black Zetsu was plotting was none of his concern. His current mission was to capture the tailed beasts. Nagato did not care about anything else, much less the reactions of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Anyone who dared stand in his path was his enemy.
At this point, Nagato practically disowned everyone except Konan. Just look at the original story—he had even killed Jiraiya. Killing his own teacher... Naruto World disciples were truly something else.
If it had been Hikaru's disciple, forget actually doing something like that—even the slightest sign of such intent would have earned him a slap to the grave.
Likewise, Hikaru had no bottom line in many matters. Yet when it came to the Third Hokage, even though they did not get along, Hikaru had never considered doing anything excessive to him. Killing one's teacher was something Hikaru did not even dare contemplate. It was not that he could not do it, but that such a bottom line could not be trampled. If he did, could he still be considered human?
From the moment Yahiko died and Nagato took control of the