Like the ordinary ninja of the Land of Rain, he too had accepted Pain's self-proclaimed title of "Kami (God)."
If there really was a God of Shinobi,
then surely it had to be Pain...
That was what Orochimaru had thought.
Later, Uchiha Minamoto had stepped onto the grand stage of the shinobi world and gradually earned the title "God of Shinobi of the New Era."
In Orochimaru's eyes,
if anyone in the shinobi world could stand against Uchiha Minamoto,
it could only be Pain.
Yet Pain had joined forces with Obito Uchiha and suffered a crushing defeat in the Land of Iron!
Orochimaru was deeply pained.
Had he known Pain would fall at Uchiha Minamoto's hands,
they might as well have let him deal with Pain instead!
He would at least have taken the man's [Rinnegan]!
Now those Sage of Six Paths' Eyes had probably already fallen into Uchiha Minamoto's hands...
Sigh, the Uchiha...
Orochimaru glanced at Madara Uchiha's... shoulder again.
Why was every Uchiha so strong?
Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha, whom Orochimaru regarded as a powerhouse, was stunned once again.
Nagato was dead too?
Then what about his [Rinnegan]?
Without the [Rinnegan], how could the Eye of the Moon Plan be carried out?
Madara Uchiha knew his own circumstances.
Back then, on the verge of death, he had finally awakened the [Rinnegan].
Later, after fully mastering the [Rinnegan]'s power, he had secretly transplanted those eyes into the young Nagato.
Even though Madara Uchiha had subsequently gouged out other Uchiha's eyes and transplanted them into himself,
Madara Uchiha's own original eyes were truly gone.
Despite the fact that the current Madara Uchiha, summoned through [Impure World Reincarnation], possessed a pair of intact eyes,
Madara Uchiha, who was also familiar with this forbidden jutsu, knew full well
that once he used Nagato's