"Tch, what a perceptive fellow!"
"Is it because of the Rinnegan? Is that how he noticed something was wrong?"
"No, his Rinnegan seems geared toward space-time abilities, not sensory ones."
"Interesting!"
A distinct voice reverberated through the air, yet no one ever appeared.
Logically speaking, Sasuke and the Search Team had already left.
There was no need to remain concealed. Yet this unknown figure in hiding still refused to show himself.
And his voice continued to ring out.
"How strange. How did my whereabouts get leaked?"
"I hid so well that no one discovered my existence for all these years."
"But now the Shinobi World knows who I am, and even knows I've gone into hiding. Where did things go wrong?"
The owner of the voice was clearly puzzled by the exposure of his identity and could not make sense of it at all.
Indeed, the content of his words made it clear.
The owner of this voice was none other than...
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!!!
The Search Team's movements and mission were quite transparent. Essentially, everyone who needed to know already knew.
After all, not only did Konoha have to dispatch Jonin, but the other villages also had to send ninja to cooperate.
With everyone at their busiest after the war, there had to be a reason to send out Jonin with such formidable combat strength.
The villages' Kage even had to explain themselves to their elders and advisors, so there was naturally no way to conceal the news about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
And as a result, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki himself soon obtained accurate information.
He was deeply shocked by it.
After all, he had concealed himself perfectly in the Shinobi World for so many years without ever being exposed.
How had his identity been leaked when the Fourth Shinobi World War had