Chapter 206: What is the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Eye of the Moon Plan?
"Cough, cough, cough."
Inside a tree that appeared no different from its surroundings, the sound of a man's heavy coughing echoed from within.
Shortly after, a cool, feminine voice sounded: "Nagato, take a rest. After traveling such a long distance, your body is already very fatigued."
With red hair and a skeletal fra, Nagato coughed a few more tis, managed to suppress it, and shook his head:
"No. I've already detected traces of the Six-Tails' chakra. It won't be long before we find the Jinchuriki."
White Zetsu was quite adept at gathering intelligence in fixed areas like the Five Great Shinobi Villages. However, due to their limited number and individual strength, it was difficult to continuously track a Jinchuriki who was constantly on the run and hiding. They could only narrow it down to a specific area.
Pain was now in that area and had already found a clue.
Knowing Nagato's character, Konan did not persuade him further. Instead, she asked, "Does the main body need to move forward again?"
Nagato nodded: "Advance half a kiloter."
Konan nodded, stretched out her hand, and the tree that enveloped them, which even the Sharingan couldn't detect as unusual, instantly disintegrated into nurous paper fragnts.
In no ti, the tree disappeared.
In its place, countless paper scraps danced in the air, creating a scene of unique beauty.
Konan manipulated so of the paper to lift the bed on which Nagato sat, while other pieces transford into eyes and ears, spreading out to monitor the surroundings.
Just like that, they quickly crossed the half-kiloter distance.
When Konan once again used her Dance of the Shikigami technique, causing countless paper fragnts to reassemble into a lifelike tree, concealing her and Nagato inside, Nagato suddenly looked up and said in a cold tone:
"I've found it."
Simultaneously, far away, Pain looked up, his gaze fixed on a towering mountain ahead, and said indifferently:
"I've found it."
"They've co."
On Mount Katsuragi, having already scattered the bait, Hagoromo Gengetsu, who was sitting on a lounge chair that Hotaru had specially moved for him, enjoying the warm sunlight, suddenly opened his eyes. His gaze shifted, looking at a mber of the Akatsuki organization, dressed in black with red clouds, who had just arrived outside the mountain.
As expected, the big fish had taken the bait.
Hagoromo Gengetsu slowly stood up and, without turning his head, instructed Hotaru and Utakata beside him:
"Stay here and do not go outside."
Before they could respond, Hagoromo Gengetsu vanished instantly.
Hotaru and Utakata looked at each other in confusion.
It wasn't until a thunderous explosion echoed from outside Mount Katsuragi that they, along with Tonbee, who had co out after hearing the noise, instinctively looked towards the source of the sound.
Only then did they understand the true aning behind Hagoromo Gengetsu's earlier words.
The weather today was nice.
The refreshing wind blew in their faces, bringing comfort to their bodies and minds, and the scent of fresh grass filled their noses.
However, Pain, who looked human but was essentially a long-dead corpse, couldn't appreciate the beauty of the world.
Unable to experience the goodness of the human world, he could only impose the opposite of "beauty" on others, bestowing pain upon the world.
True peace could only be achieved through a true understanding of pain.
This was the belief he had always adhered to.
It was also his motivation for appearing here today, ready to capture the Six-Tails' Jinchuriki.
But before Pain could take any action, a person leapt down from Mount Katsuragi, carrying an intimidating presence that no one dared to look at directly, and appeared before him, blocking his path.
"Hagoromo Gengetsu?"
At the sight of the newcor's face, Pain's typically expressionless visage showed a hint of surprise.
The sa expression appeared on Nagato's face, ten kiloters away.
He couldn't understand why Hagoromo Gengetsu, who was in the midst of intense skirmishes with the Five Great Nations, would appear in this place.
The direction from which he had co was precisely where the Six-Tails' Jinchuriki was hiding.
When had Hagoromo Gengetsu crossed paths with the Six-Tails' Jinchuriki?
Or... had he beco interested in the tailed beasts?
Nagato's eyes grew cold.
Beside him, Konan's expression also tensed up upon hearing the unexpected na from Nagato's mouth. After glancing at Nagato, she began to seriously scrutinize her surroundings.
Nas carry weight, and "Uchiha Madara's" abilities were evident to both her and Nagato.
Now, with soone as renowned as Hagoromo Gengetsu suddenly appearing, even though the true reason was still unclear, they had to be extrely cautious this ti.
"Pain? The leader of the Akatsuki?"
Hearing Pain call out his na, Hagoromo Gengetsu wasn't surprised and nodded slightly in acknowledgnt, then asked:
Pain, who had returned to his emotionless deanor, did not deny it.
In a tone devoid of any fluctuation, he said, "At this ti, you shouldn't be here."
"No."
Hagoromo Gengetsu's lips curled into a faint smile as he responded,
"This is the right ti, the right place, and the right person."
"My target is you, Pain."
As the words fell, a cold wind howled by.
If soone else had been targeted by a figure like Hagoromo Gengetsu, they would likely be deeply unsettled.
But Pain's expression remained unchanged.
Confident in the power of the Rinnegan, he listened to Hagoromo Gengetsu's explanation and calmly asked:
"Why?"
Inside the concealed tree, Nagato's gaze seed to pierce through the distance, fixed on Hagoromo Gengetsu.
He needed an explanation.
An explanation for why, after he killed Hagoromo Gengetsu, the plan he had been devising for years—to pit Hagoromo Gengetsu's forces against the Five Great Nations while the Akatsuki hid in the shadows—would have to be abandoned.
Hagoromo Gengetsu provided him with an answer.
"The Rinnegan."
Hearing this, Pain's eyelids drooped, disappointnt evident: "Another ignorant person coveting the Rinnegan."
Could this person, renowned alongside Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, be like this?
Compared to Uchiha Madara, who had ticulously planned for years and shared a grand vision, the difference in perspective was too great.
To this, Hagoromo Gengetsu chuckled softly and shook his head, saying:
"Ignorant? No. It's precisely because I know too much that I've beco interested in the Rinnegan."
"Especially after learning the truth about the Rinnegan, about the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and the Eye of the Moon Plan."
Pain was about to make a move.
In his view, soone who compared himself to a god was no different from a vulgar person. Even if they were powerful, it was unnecessary to waste words on them.
However, at that mont!
Suddenly hearing Hagoromo Gengetsu ntion the "truth of the Rinnegan," "Infinite Tsukuyomi," and "Eye of the Moon Plan," which he himself knew individually but didn't fully understand together, Pain keenly sensed sothing was off.
Was there another truth about the Rinnegan?
Why was he, who possessed the Rinnegan, unaware of it?
Was Hagoromo Gengetsu bluffing?
But soone of his caliber had no reason to lie.
Pain—or rather, Nagato—was montarily stunned, as if realizing sothing.
It was like noticing a small problem that had always been ignored for many years suddenly connecting into a significant, hidden issue beneath the surface.
But it remained beneath the surface, only showing a vague outline, not the full picture.
So...
Pain looked at Hagoromo Gengetsu, his tone fluctuating once more as he asked:
"What is the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Eye of the Moon Plan?"
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