"Pain?"
"That's right!"
Shikaku picked up a slip of paper from the table beside him and handed it to Minato.
Seeing this, Liumu stepped forward to read the information with Minato.
"They call themselves the rulers of the Land of Rain. Anyone who enters the Land of Rain is their enemy."
According to the intelligence, Sunagakure had launched the first attack against the Land of Rain to carve out its own territory there.
Strangely, however, the Land of Rain, which had always let the great nations carve it up at will, had suddenly gained an extremely forceful ruler.
When Sunagakure's ninja advanced into the Land of Rain, a man wearing a black cloak with red clouds fought against them under the name "Pain."
"One man held off an entire nation?"
Shocked, Minato immediately turned to glance at Liumu.
"Yes, that's what the intelligence says."
Shikaku nodded.
Choza, who had greeted Liumu from the side, now added, "Rumor has it that Pain is incredibly powerful and particularly skilled at the Summoning Technique. He held off all of Sunagakure's ninja with nothing but one strange summoned beast after another. More importantly, guess what?"
Liumu: ...
Minato: ???
"The Rinnegan! That Pain has a pair of Rinnegan. Even the beasts he summons have the Rinnegan. It's so strange."
Although the people of Konoha did not yet know the name Pain, Liumu knew it very well.
Rather than saying that the other party called himself Pain, it would be more accurate to say that only one of the Pains had fought Sunagakure.
Pain-no, they should be called the Six Paths of Pain.
The six paths were the Deva Path, Asura Path, Human Path, Animal Path, Preta Path, and Naraka Path.
The Pain who could summon creatures should be the Animal Path among the six.