Gekko Chizan looked extremely serious—after all, he had to live! Only by staying alive could he enjoy life!
He had worked so hard to gain Chōmei's power—flight! Invisibility! He had become perfect. He couldn't just lose his life like this!
"Yugito and I are on the same side. After all, as fellow jinchūriki, we're both targets of Uchiha Madara."
"And that Nagato you saw—the Rinnegan he has doesn't belong to him. They were Uchiha Madara's eyes."
"This time in Amegakure, my target is Yahiko and Konan, not Nagato. After all, with Uchiha Madara's eyes, he belongs to the enemy."
Hearing his goal, Yugito, Chōmei, and Matatabi all nodded. Their impressions of Yahiko and the others were fine.
But Nagato… they all felt something was wrong about him. Now it seemed their instincts had been correct.
"What's your plan?"
"They always act together. You can't just separate them, can you?"
Matatabi finally voiced the doubt in her mind.
Chōmei also waited for Gekko Chizan's answer.
"I'll find an opportunity to split them apart. I haven't revealed much of my abilities anyway."
"But that damn title—'The Ghost of Konoha'—is a bit of a problem. Because of it, I can't use either Transparent Release or Flying Thunder God."
"Yugito already exposed your Mouse Hairball technique in front of Konan. From now on, you can't act directly, and your appearance is too easy to recognize."
Gekko Chizan had already made up his mind. He had to separate Yahiko from Nagato as soon as possible. Nagato's presence made him uneasy—those eyes always reminded him of bad things.
"Even though I can't use Transparent Release or Flying Thunder God, I still have Crystal Release and other ninjutsu. That's more than enough to handle them. After all, they haven't grown to their peak yet."
"I'm someone who can even take down Kage-level opponents. Dealing with them will be easy."
Suddenly, Gekko Chizan froze mid-sentence as if struck by a thought.
"Chizan? Hey, Chizan?"
Chōmei was the first to notice something was wrong and immediately called out to him.
Matatabi and Yugito also realized something was off.
"What's wrong with him? Did he freeze up?"
"Or did he cut off contact?"
Chōmei shook his head, denying Matatabi's guess.
"If the link was cut, he should've disappeared."
"But he didn't disappear. That means he hasn't cut contact with us."
While they were wondering what was going on, the motionless Gekko Chizan suddenly moved again.
But his expression turned rather ugly.
Seeing his face, the two tailed beasts and Yugito couldn't help but ask:
"What's wrong with you?"
"Where did you just go?"
Gekko Chizan didn't respond. His mind was spinning rapidly.
Because just now, he had been using his curse technique—drawing a curse circle—and his target was none other than Uchiha Madara.
But halfway through the technique, a system notification had popped up.
[Ding! Detected that the curse target is already dead. Please replace immediately, or this opportunity will be wasted.]
Dead? Uchiha Madara is dead?
Gekko Chizan suddenly felt his brain wasn't processing fast enough.
How could he be dead? Already? According to his understanding, that old guy still had a few more years left. How did he die so soon?
Wait… if Uchiha Madara is dead, that means his successor has already appeared?
Who is it? Obito? Impossible. At this time, Obito is only a child. Then who?
...
While he was still pondering this.
Two figures were already pursuing Yahiko and the others.
"What do you plan to do?"
Black Zetsu's hoarse voice slowly rang out. He was curious about what Uchiha Makito intended to do.
Faced with his question, Uchiha Makito didn't reply. He slowly drew a kunai.
Ahead of him were Yahiko and his group. Right now, they were on their way to complete a mission.
"Nagato, what's wrong with you?"
"You've been gloomy ever since we left the village."
Yahiko asked as they ran. After all, Nagato had been silent the whole way, looking rather gloomy.
Finally, after hearing Yahiko ask, Nagato slowly spoke:
"Yahiko, I think we should keep our distance from that man. He's a Konoha shinobi after all."
"Our relationship with Konoha isn't exactly good."
Hearing this, Yahiko frowned slightly. In fact, it wasn't just him—everyone else, even Konan, felt the same.
Gekko Chizan had helped them—saving them from danger, helping them form their organization. So what if he was from Konoha?
"Yahiko, I can't explain it. I just feel there's something very wrong about him."
Nagato trusted his sixth sense—it told him there was something off about Gekko Chizan.
Before Yahiko could reply, a sudden whistling sound came from afar.
"Watch out, Mayaba!"
Just as he shouted, a kunai suddenly pierced one of his companions' chest—the man named Mayaba didn't even react before the blade stabbed deep, blood gushing like a fountain.
"Enemy attack! Be on guard!"
"Mayaba!"
Yahiko's eyes turned crimson as he grabbed Mayaba's shoulder and pulled him aside.
Mayaba's face was full of unwillingness as he coughed up blood.
"Damn it! Who is it?!"
As Yahiko roared, several more shuriken suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Yahiko rolled on the ground to dodge, but one still cut his arm.
The sharp pain made his heart jolt.
He was already on high alert, yet he still couldn't see where the shuriken were coming from.
"Nagato!"
Hearing Yahiko's call, Nagato's Rinnegan flashed as he tried to trace the shuriken with his eyes.
But to his frustration, the shuriken seemed to appear from thin air.
"Where are they?!"
Nagato tried again and again to find the attacker, but no matter what, he couldn't see where the shuriken were being thrown from.
Meanwhile, a kilometer away on top of a tree, Uchiha Makito toyed with a shuriken, a mocking smile on his lips.
"This is the group he gathered? Their strength is mediocre."
"I only used a little ocular power, and they're already helpless?"
Black Zetsu didn't speak this time, but deep down he was shocked again.
Uchiha Makito's ocular power—he had seen it before, but using it in combat like this was terrifying.
With just a wave of his hand, he had already killed someone, and the enemy couldn't even find his position.
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