Naruto: Starting from the time when the Six Paths of Pain was Kira Yoshikage

Not long after Pain subdued the current Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, Konan successfully located Takigakure, hidden behind a giant waterfall, based on a signal sent by Pain.

Soon after, Sasori of the Red Sand also arrived late.

After learning that the former Takigakure Village had become a thing of the past and would now serve as Akatsuki's official meeting place.

Scorpion rarely exclaimed, "As expected of the leader, he wiped out an entire village in one fell swoop. That's quite a feat."

Even the arrogant Sasori admitted that he could not easily wipe out a ninja village overnight, even if that ninja village was just a small one.

He can't do it now, and he's unlikely to be able to in the future either. Although Sasori's Hundred Puppet Techniques in the future is said to be able to wipe out a country in one night, the countries he slaughtered were even smaller than the Land of Waterfall, similar to the Land of Waves, where the number of formal ninjas was extremely small, and it was even debatable whether there were any ninjas at all.

While Takigakure may appear to be just a small ninja village, it is a village with Jinchuriki, unlike obscure places like Ishigakure, Shimogakure, Takegakure, and Tanigakure, which are not even mentioned in the main story.

"Can I have those Taki ninja corpses?"

Scorpion's current main skill is puppetry. The puppets he creates can unleash 100% of their original strength, but this requires the complete preservation of the corpse.

The ninjas who were silently killed in Bleach 13 perfectly meet this requirement.

In theory, in Death 13, the way you kill someone in a dream will determine how that person dies in reality. If you are killed by a knife in a dream, you will be killed by a knife in reality.

The description of Death 13 as a Stand is that in dreams, Death 13 can do whatever it wants and can launch attacks in any mode.

That's the most terrifying thing about this stand-in.

Nagato's evaluation of this Stand was even higher than that of Yellow Temperance.

Imagine a world where you can do almost anything; killing someone silently would be incredibly easy.

Moreover, you can choose the method of death: poisoning, suffocation, cardiac arrest... You can even shrink down to enter the other person's body... To kill the other person, you only need to move your finger.

When the Egyptians encountered Death 13, the Stand user, during their fight against DIO, the Stand user was an infant. Even if his mind was mature, he was still just an infant. Death 13 could only exert extremely limited power in his hands, and more often than not, he maintained a toying attitude of playing with the Stand like a cat playing with a mouse.

That's why the DIO raid group managed to get through this challenge without losing a single member. If it were someone else, especially those cunning old foxes... the DIO raid group would probably have been wiped out.

Unless you can never sleep, or have prior knowledge of the situation and summon your Stand to your side 24/7, Death 13 is undoubtedly the strongest Stand for first-time killers.

That's why Yoshikage Kira (Animal Path) killed the Stand user immediately and turned him into a Stand summoning beast.

Pain simply waved his hand at Sasori's request: "Take them all if you want."

Xiao Nan had disposed of all the corpses using paper magic; otherwise, it would be strange if such a large number of corpses piled together didn't stink.

"I want five of the youngest hearts."

Kakuzu immediately stated his request: his heart was due for a replacement. Sasori's puppets only needed the body, not internal organs, which didn't conflict with Kakuzu's needs.

"Can I eat those useless villager corpses?"

Just as they were talking, a small bulge suddenly appeared on the ground nearby, and then Jue's very distinctive yin-yang face appeared in front of them.

His appearance startled Kakuzu and Sasori, who mistook him for an enemy and instinctively tried to attack, but were stopped in time by Pain.

"Who is this ugly fellow? Is he also a member of our organization?"

Kakuzu stared at Zetsu's two-toned face with disgust, and mercilessly remarked, "His eyes are practically as small as mung beans."

Although he was transformed into a grotesque, inhuman creature due to the "Earthly Grief," and needed to have other people's hearts removed to prolong his life, he never engaged in the act of eating corpses.

His words disgusted him.

Pain glanced at him silently, pausing particularly at his eyes. To be fair, in terms of eye size, the two were about the same.

Then he pointed to Jue and introduced him to everyone: "Jue, the organization's intelligence minister."

"You can contact him if you want to find out anything."

"I was able to locate you so accurately thanks to his help."

Pain, the Deity of Pain, emphasized the role of Zetsu in intelligence gathering.

As the head of the Akatsuki's intelligence department, Zetsu can gather almost any information about the ninja world without the other party knowing his abilities, which is indeed very useful at this stage.

Upon hearing Pain's explanation, Kakuzu's green pupils brightened slightly, and he tentatively asked Zetsu, "If I want to know the locations of the ninjas on the black market's bounty list..."

"easy."

With a strange grin, Bai Zetsu said, "Tell me the other person's physical characteristics and name, and I guarantee I'll find out everything within a day, not just their location, but even their physical condition."

Upon hearing Zetsu's reply, Kakuzu's eyes lit up. He immediately changed his attitude, speaking to Zetsu with a slightly more amiable smile, "My apologies for my rudeness."

Kagami becomes extremely polite to anything that can bring him tangible benefits.

After all, there's no shame in making money.

Black Zetsu remained unresponsive, while White Zetsu chuckled and replied, "I don't care."

Sasori watched the two of them working together without showing any emotion, then turned his gaze back to the deceased Takigakure ninja.

At this point, he already had the idea of ​​forming an army of human puppets.

He had already thought of a name, and inspired by his grandmother Chiyo's strongest secret technique, "White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters," he named it "Red Secret Technique: Hundred Puppet Maneuver," which, as the name suggests, meant that he was preparing to create one hundred puppets.

When the time comes, no matter who you fight, as long as they reveal this secret manual, you will be invincible.

To defeat him, you must first eliminate one hundred top-tier puppets.

The only difficulty is that a person only has ten fingers. Even if one finger controls one puppet, the maximum number of puppets that can be controlled at the same time is ten. Even if you include the toes, the maximum number of puppets is only twenty.

Trying to control a hundred of these things simultaneously is simply impossible...

The human body has its limits...

unless...

The scorpion looked at its own vibrant body.

It seems it's time to make a decision.