Two liars across a long table
Land of Rain The rain in the east has eased for a long time.
Obito squatted on the roof of a burned-out warehouse, with the black remains of Three Bridges Town beneath his feet. He looked at the seventh batch of Amegakure remnants arriving from the north, and handed over Akatsuki's black red cloud cloak one by one.
"Look." A half-black face popped out of the mud. "I said, as long as you kill enough, the fish will jump out on their own."
"Yahiko, the leader of Akatsuki, has appeared." Black Zetsu's voice was very low, "Five Great Nations's intelligence network was all blown up this morning. Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure all started to put eyes on Land of Rain."
"That's not important." Obito stood up, the small cracks on the orange mask shining in the rain, "The important thing is-why it is Yahiko."
Black Zetsu said nothing.
"Where is Nagato." Obito's tone finally calmed down, "I burned six villages, and what I wanted was Nagato. But what jumped out was a man who should have died."
"If Nagato used Rinnegan to save him," Black Zetsu said slowly, "That means he has touched Outer Path Technique's door."
"Rinne Rebirth." Obito read out the name, his voice shaking a little, "You have to pay for it with your life. So, Nagato is dead?"
"Maybe he's not dead yet." Black Zetsu said, "Maybe he's hiding in a very close place. Rinne Rebirth The price is death. If he really uses that technique, he won't be able to survive for a few days."
Obito was silent for a long time.
Raindrops hit his mask and slid down one by one.
"We have to confirm whether Nagato is really dead."
Amegakure, the former Hanzō mansion.
"Yahiko" was sitting at the north end of the long table in the main hall, flipping through an old account book in his hand.
That is the military expense account left by Hanzō. It records the food and salary allocated to a certain unit in a certain month in a certain year. The last line says "loss of 470 people". Four hundred and seventy numbers, no names.
The finger of "Yahiko" stops on that line.
Nagato exhaled through the puppet. This breath did not need to be exhaled, and the puppet did not need to breathe. But he was used to it.
Konan stood three steps to his left. She changed her posture, slipped a stack of paper from her sleeve to her fingers, and then took it back.
"He should be here today," she said.
"Why today."
"Because Kakuzu and the others didn't catch up with him yesterday." Konan said, "Uncle Kakuzu and Sakumo tried several times without being stopped. The other party is now very confident."
"Yahiko" close the account book.
"Yahiko" is always smiling, even if Nagato is inside, he still has to smile. Senju Chen explained: Yahiko's shoulders habitually lean forward slightly, when he smiles he moves the corners of his eyes first, and there is a half-second pause before speaking. All these details are incorporated into the puppet's joints and facial drive.
Nagato was uncomfortable with it at first. But now he can complain in the tone of Yahiko.
"What is the third step Chen-kun said."
Konan said, "Chen-kun said: Once the other party appears, don't rush to scold him. Let him finish his words first. If he doesn't finish his words, you won't know what he wants."
"He wants my eyes."
"He wants your eyes, but he will negotiate peace with you first." Konan paused, "Chen-kun said, the more this kind of person wants to grab something, the more he has to find a great reason for himself first."
"Yahiko" smiled.
This time it was Nagato who wanted to laugh.
The air in the main hall suddenly changed.
It's not Chakra's fluctuation. There are seventeen perception seals around the mansion, which were placed by Hatake Sakumo himself. Every bird flying over will be recorded. But there is no sound among those seventeen seals.
Nagato raised his head.
At the south end of the long table, the void twisted in a circle. It was like someone pinched a piece of cloth from the center and shook it away.
A person walked out of that Uzumaki.
Black robe. Orange mask. There is only one hole in the mask, where the right eye is, and inside is scarlet Sharingan.
He sat down at the south end of the long table casually, and his action of pulling up the chair was even a bit polite.
"Yahiko-kun, hello."
Konan The paper in his hand has been completely unfolded, hanging into a wall in the air.
"Who are you?"
"How did you get in?"
"I didn't come in." Masked Man put his hands on the table, "I was always there."
After he said this, he slowly raised his head and looked at the face opposite.
Then he stopped moving.
The main hall was very quiet. The rain came down from the corners of the eaves and hit the stone steps, drop by drop.
He has orange hair, a young face, a row of black trinkets hanging on his ears, and two nails on the bridge of his nose.
There is nothing wrong with the fact that the other party is Yahiko.
But in the opponent's eyes, there are circles of purple concentric lines.
Rinnegan!!!
Obito Uchiha What he was about to say suddenly froze on his lips.
How is this possible???
Obito's first reaction was not anger, but something deeper - the thread he thought he was holding in his hand suddenly found that the other end was taken away by someone.
First, Demonic Statue of the Outer Path has been used for many years.
Now, even Rinnegan has changed his face.
Nagato really used that technique to revive Yahiko in front of him?
And before he died, he moved his eyes to Yahiko?
No, it's impossible. Rinnegan is extremely taxing on the body and Chakra, and Yahiko's physique simply cannot sustain it.
But how to explain this situation???
This sudden thing in front of him was beyond his understanding, causing Obito's lines that he had prepared for many years to suddenly come to a standstill.
Just at this moment.
"Up!"
As Konan's voice fell, the paper wall shattered into millions of pieces, and the edges of each piece were so sharp that they could cut bones.
At the same second, "Yahiko" raised his right hand.
"Shinra Tensei."
The long table in the main hall was broken into two parts in the middle, and the fracture was as neat as if it had been cut. A huge circular pit was pressed out of the stone floor, and the surrounding pillars screamed.
The repulsive force exploded where Obito was sitting.
The paper is cut in from six directions at the same time.
Obito didn't move.
He sat there, letting the force that was enough to flatten half of the house pass through his body, and let the pieces of paper pass through his chest, neck, and mask--
Pass through them all.
One by one, they flew out from behind him and were nailed to the wall.
His chair was overturned by Shinra Tensei and smashed into the corner. But he was still sitting, as if he was sitting on a chair that no longer existed.
"Are you so unfriendly?" Obito's voice came from under the mask, "You start taking action as soon as you meet. This is not like the Akatsuki leader who said on the steps that he wanted to erect a monument for the deceased."
After this, Obito also recovered from the shock just now,
Konan's pieces of paper are folded again.
"Yahiko" did not use repulsion this time.
He raised his hand, palm down.
A dark, finger-thick short stick appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Black Rod.
Obito's Sharingan's pupils shrank to the limit.
This is!!! Outer Path Rod!!!
He actually connected to Demonic Statue!
Could it be that the person who really controlled Demonic Statue of the Outer Path all these years was not Senju Chen as he and Black Zetsu speculated, but Xiao???