"However, the immediate priority is that we first need to figure out just how rotten Konoha has become."
The moment Gekkō Raito's words fell, his originally calm expression suddenly sank, and his pupils shrank slightly.
"You've finally let me catch your tail!"
Gekkō Raito blurted out this exact phrase.
Naruto, standing next to him, was taken aback by this sudden development, blinked his large eyes, and asked, "Huh? What did you catch?"
Gekkō Raito coldly spat out two words: "Sasuke!"
"Sasuke?!"
Gekkō Raito rattled off the whole sequence of events regarding Sasuke's bizarre disappearance to Naruto at a fast pace.
An expert of Sasuke's caliber could never just vanish for no reason, and an opponent capable of making him bite the dust must be unfathomably powerful in strength.
Looking across the entire Shinobi World, the only ones with the ability to rub Sasuke's face in the dirt or even capture him alive were the high-level combat forces of those Three Great Shinobi Villages.
Naruto's heart instantly leapt to his throat, and he anxiously pursued the question: "Have you actually already sensed Sasuke's exact location?"
Gekkō Raito nodded affirmatively: "Yeah, I feel it."
"Quickly tell me, where is he?"
Gekkō Raito didn't beat around the bush in the slightest and directly tossed out the answer: "Right in Otogakure!"
Otogakure?!
Minato had a flash of inspiration in his mind and blurted out: "That's Orochimaru's lair!"
Gekkō Raito looked at Minato approvingly: "Right, it's that slippery snake. I turned all Three Great Shinobi Villages upside down and didn't see hide nor hair of him. Eliminate all the impossibles, and whatever remains-no matter how absurd-must be the truth. Besides, Orochimaru hasn't been lusting after Sasuke's body for just a day or two."
"Then what do you plan to do next?" Naruto asked, clenching his