"Hmph!" Kakuzu said disdainfully.
"If this mission actually paid, I wouldn't have handed the target over to you. Hurry up and finish it! Keep dawdling and I'll kill you!"
"Tch! Kakuzu, how many times have I told you not to say that to me? There's no point~"
Hidan carefully tucked his necklace back inside his coat, then gave Yugito Nii a teasing smile.
"Hey, lady! My partner thinks I'm a pain. Could you do me a favor? How about we talk this over and you surrender quietly? That would save some time, and I wouldn't have to break my religious precepts. Two birds with one stone~"
"Stop joking around!" Yugito snapped furiously.
These two, especially the white-haired one, dared to disregard her completely!
"Bastards! I'll stake my title as Kumogakure's second-strongest ninja on killing you!"
"Huh? What nonsense are you spouting? You actually want to kill me?" Hidan raised an eyebrow.
"Whenever I hear someone speaking with murderous intent, I get really annoyed for no reason~ And then... I get angry. And once I'm angry? I... I just!"
Kakuzu was growing impatient beside him. "Hidan, shut up! Are you ever going to stop rambling?"
"All right, all right, I'm kidding~ Why get so mad?" Hidan tilted his head back, his face the picture of innocence.
"But if I get angry right from the start, I start thinking I should just ignore the objective and destroy the target~"
"Stop talking," Kakuzu said. "The objective is absolute! The leader ordered us not to kill her."
"Ah..." Hidan sighed dejectedly.
"This job doesn't fit my religion at all. The Jashin Cult's supreme principle is slaughter. Our precepts forbid leaving a target half-dead. It's hard to get motivated for a job that breaks those precepts..."
"I may not look it, but I'm very devout~"