The anonymous sealing site's location had not been disclosed.
Ordinary reinforcements could not reach it.
If the Neutral Station demanded coordinates, the temporary agreement's most important protection would immediately collapse.
Nagato proposed another method.
Use the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to pull the attack back.
Black Zetsu was attacking along the Tailed Beast connections, and the statue was the center where all those connections had once been intended to converge.
Temporarily opening a single empty interface would allow them to draw the pale light away from the anonymous sealing site's outer layer and back to the Land of Rain.
The moment the proposal entered the public communications channel, all Five Great Nations objected.
The Akatsuki already possessed the statue.
Nagato also possessed the Rinnegan.
If this supposed rescue was merely a pretext to resume capturing Tailed Beasts, the Anonymous Jinchūriki would be willingly delivered to the most dangerous place possible.
The Land of Earth's representative demanded that the statue first be placed under the joint custody of the Five Nations.
Someone from the Land of Fire suggested moving it to Konoha's Sealing Vault.
The Land of Water argued that any location on land would give the host nation effective control.
Nagato accepted none of these proposals.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was in the Land of Rain.
Forcibly relocating it would mean entering the Akatsuki's core territory to seize its power.
The Land of Rain would not concede that the great nations had the right to take possession of the statue simply because cooperation was necessary.
Gen supported the reverse pull.
He also supported Nagato's refusal to surrender the statue itself.
"Use and ownership are not the same thing."
Konoha could not claim the statue merely because it possessed sealing jutsu.
Nor could the Land of