Obito left Pain with a livid expression.
Nagato, whom he had once toyed with, had actually dared to give him orders, even hinting at a threat.
Before this, Obito had always looked down on Nagato deep down, despite his Rinnegan. Now, however, he had to admit that he was weaker than Nagato.
Had Nagato been the one surrounded and attacked, he would never have come so close to death.
Zetsu watched Obito expressionlessly and tossed him an intelligence scroll. Through hundreds of White Zetsu, he could easily gather information from all over the shinobi world.
Obito opened the scroll. It contained intelligence on Kirigakure and Sunagakure.
Then Zetsu said, "Obito, Nagato is right. You should leave Konoha alone for now..."
Obito looked at Zetsu and remained silent. After his defeat, he had no intention of going to Konoha anytime soon. In the meantime, perhaps he could turn his attention to other shinobi villages.
When it came to using the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to collect the nine tailed beasts, he and Nagato shared the same goal.
Their activities over all these years had also been aimed at provoking wars between the major shinobi villages, weakening them to make collecting the tailed beasts easier.
Both the Nine-Tails' Rampage and the unrest in Kirigakure had been engineered for that purpose.
They had successfully weakened Konoha and Kirigakure, both already plagued by internal strife.
Akatsuki's acceptance of the Tsuchikage's bounty missions to attack the surrounding small countries served the same purpose.
Among the great nations, only the firmly united Kumogakure gave them trouble.
As for Sunagakure, neither Obito nor Nagato had ever taken it seriously.
A village whose Kazekage could be killed by its own missing-nin could only have so much vision and ability...
Obito casually tossed the intelligence into the