"Also, Kisame Hoshigaki's ring is the [Three] ring, but Zabuza just took him away..."
Juzo Biwa had forgotten about the Akatsuki's rings just now.
If he had remembered sooner, he would have taken that [Three] ring off Kisame Hoshigaki's hand long ago!
Uchiha Minamoto looked at Mei Terumi and gave her a meaningful glance.
Mei Terumi pretended not to notice. She stared at Juzo Biwa and asked,
"Can that ring really allow communication without any delay?"
If so.
Then it was quite an impressive ninja tool!
"That's right."
Juzo Biwa first confirmed it, then changed tack.
"Other members of the Akatsuki, like Sasori of the Red Sands and Orochimaru, have tried studying the rings too, but none of them got anywhere.
"Pain seems to have put some very powerful measures on the rings... I can't make any sense of them, anyway.
"I've only heard Orochimaru and the others mention occasionally that the rings can't be traced back."
"Can't be traced back..."
Mei Terumi nodded instinctively, then suddenly froze.
"Then can Pain pinpoint their locations from his end?"
Juzo Biwa answered uncertainly, "Probably..."
"Ao!"
Mei Terumi made an immediate decision and ordered the subordinate beside her,
"Go get Kisame Hoshigaki's ring back! Give it to the Fifth Hokage!"
Pain could use the Akatsuki's rings to pinpoint the members' exact locations from his end.
In that case, it was no "good ninja tool"!
It was a time bomb with a tracker attached!
Mei Terumi wanted nothing to do with something like that!
Uchiha Minamoto gave Mei Terumi an indifferent glance.
So haughty before, so respectful now. What a laugh!
The next time she wanted him to help Kirigakure, it would not be free...
Before long.
The three rings belonging to Obito Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Juzo Biwa were laid out before Uchiha