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  Outside, Uzumaki Shūkan's delighted voice rang out, "Gojo-sama! What brings you here?"

  Hearing this, Uzumaki Reina also quickly emerged from the room, hurrying towards the advisor, her voice filled with urgency,

  "—I have a report to make!"

  "Just now, a kunoiamed Konan, with blue hair, tried to persuade our Uzumaki to betray Konoha. She cimed that an Uzumaki member had already established an Uzumaki base outside the Land of Fire."

  "...."

  The Uzumaki , having suffered betrayal in the past, deeply uood the wisdom of not putting all their eggs in one basket.

  Yes, Konan had been too eager, blurting out such a taboo topic.

  Everything that had just happened ontaneous rea from Uzumaki Reina after she realized Konan's potential threat.

  However, it ity that she couldraformation about the mastermind behind the ses—Regarding this point, Uzumaki Reina expressed a small regret.

  "You've done well, Reina. I already have a grasp of the situation," Gojo Kaigetsu nodded. "Later, Go to the Anbu and collect a 500,000 ryō reward. Tell them it was my orders."

  "Yes! Advisor-sama!" Uzumaki Reina's face flushed slightly.

  This Konoha—truly was a nd of opportunity. Just casually ratting out a newly acquainted "sister," and she got 500,000 ryō.

  The money—suddenly felt a little less like money.

  Gojo Kaigetsu seemed to uand.

  Konan's infiltration of Konoha was iargeting the Uzumaki .

  As the saying goes, "Brothers quarrel, but friends offer advice"—This pstic sister, Konan, was so eager to persuade the Uzumaki to break away from Konoha?

  However, it was also good. With the Uzumaki as bait, it wouldn't be hard to lure Konan in.

  He could tempt Konan, again and again, to enter Konoha and tact the Uzumaki .

  And on his end, he would gradually reveal his fws, giving Konan the hope of successfully bringing the Uzumaki out of Konoha.

  The road from the vilge gate to the Uzumaki pound was already filled with various actors arranged by Gojo Kaigetsu.

  Those—were all ordinary people trained by Gin, without a trace of chakra. Even if Konan was vigint, she would only think it was a ce or an act.

  Through a series of ces and acts, he would awaken her kindness and desire for peace, using it as a substitute, repg her bond with Nagato.

  If he were more ruthless—

  Theoretically, Gojo Kaigetsu could have just killed Konan ht and then had Orochimaru use Edo Teo revive her, trolling her and using her Paper Release to make Konoha shine.

  But Gojo Kaigetsu discovered that Konan's chakra was a bit unusual, or rather—inplete.

  Whether he killed Konan directly or had the Yamanaka extract her memories, the paper left behind in the Akatsuki base would, like a quantum enta, ge, thus sending a message to Nagato.

  Killing Konan like this would undoubtedly set off a p, provoking a crazed Nagato to seek revenge on Konoha.

  Nagato ying the long game, and so was Konoha.

  If Nagato and Konoha were destined for war, the ter it happehe better it was for Konoha!

  Ideally, they would remain peaceful until Konoha reached level 60—By then, even if Nagato came as a dragon, he'd have to coil up in Konoha; if he came as a tiger, he'd have to lie down.

  No, they didn't eveo wait that long.

  By the time Konoha reached year 51, in October—

  When Naruto and Sasuke were born—

  --

  Wheracted ōtsutsuki chakra and evolved his Ultimate Byakugan into the Tenseigan—Konoha, with its superih-end bat power, could then march out of the vilge ao Amegakure for a decapitation strike.

  The main threat Nagato posed to Gojo Kaigetsu was his "Shinra Tensei" and "Chibaku Tensei." If Nagato unleashed them, Konoha would be destroyed.

  Therefore, the operation to eliminate Nagato couldn't take p Konoha or even within the Land of Fire's borders.

  If the battlefield were in Amegakure, he wondered if Nagato would dare use Super Shinra Tensei and Chibaku Tensei.

  Nagato's body was hidden in a tree hollow created by Konan using the "Paper Person of God" teique. Besides Zetsu and Konan, no one knew his exact location.

  To carry out the decapitation strike, he needed Konan to reveal the intel herself.

  'I feel like we won't make it to Naruto and Sasuke's birth—'

  The best oute, naturally, was t it out until October, when Naruto and Sasuke were borract the ōtsutsuki chakra, and create the Tenseigan, ensuring absolute victory.

  But to eliminate all risks in the cradle, Gojo Kaigetsu decided to take the initiative, bringing forward the decapitation strike against Nagato.

  Obito had already lost the opportunity to create the ails i, but Nagato was still alive!

  The Rinnegan, pared to the Mangekyo Sharingan, could not only trol tailed beasts, but after using them, he could directly seal the ails into the Gedo Mazo's shell.

  Kushina would soon be due to give birth. If by any ce that guy Nagato started his tailed beast pn—and if Bck Zetsu incited Nagato to advahe pn, to strike earlier—

  Kushina's delivery was the best time to strike.

  To prevent that possibility—

  "I o work harder."

  The actojo Kaigetsu had arranged were already in pce, lining the road from the Uzumaki pound to the Konoha gate.

  To avoid any mishaps, he had pced actors at every entrance, ensuring the pn's success.

  As for the script—

  Gojo Kaigetsu had learned from tless instances of persuading vilins to turn over a new leaf.

  In the end, it all boiled down to this—

  If she was inexperienced in the world, take her to see the prosperity of the world; if her heart was already world-weary, take her on a merry-go-round!

  The so-called merry-go-round—

  Symbolized an "i and pure state of mind." A merry-go-round was usually for children, and childrehe most i and pure.

  Her heart was already world-weary because she had experieoo much, seen too much. She was jaded and indifferent to the world.

  Then, taking her quietly back to her inal self, finding the pead fort of childhood, letting go of desires and obsessions, and maintaining a peaceful, romantic heart, she would deeply fall in love with this i state of mind.

  And what was Konan's state of mind?

  Perhaps both—

  She had a teacher to teach her ninjutsu, but no teacher to teach her the principle of "rust a stranger's words"; she was clearly oeen years old, yet she had experiehe cruel struggles of the Shinobi world, and had never experienced a pure childhood.

  Now, she had seen the prosperity of Konoha, all that was left was the merry-go-round—

  And what Gojo Kaigetsu had to do was to make Kona on the merry-go-round? No!

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  As Konan walked out of the Uzumaki pound, the joy she felt inside quickly dissipated at the sight of Konoha's streets.

  Guilt tio grow, filling her heart.

  It was like the DNA engraved in a workhorse's soul. The moment they stopped w, they felt guilty. Konan—was likely in a simir state of mind now, because—she had a mission. But seeing the smiles on the Konoha vilgers' faces made her feel deeply guilty.

  Suddenly, a little girl with twin ponytails, holding a milk tea, stumbled into Konan's leg. She looked up with wide, i eyes.

  "Big sister, are you feeling down? Here, have some milk tea~"

  "It'll make you feel better."

  Konan looked down—

  The afternoon sun shohrough the leaves, casting dappled light otle girl's face.

  Her smile ure as the m dew, her eyes sparkling with curiosity aement. Those dark, lively eyes seemed to speak, engaging in a silent versation with Konan.

  Konan could only see the girl's innod beauty in her i eyes, making one want to protect this purity, to preserve this beautiful moment.

  "Th-Thank you..." Konan's throat felt dry, and she instinctively reached into her pouch, wanting to give the anization's funds to the little girl.

  Just then, the little girl's mother, with a gentle housewife's hairstyle, came over, scolding from afar, "Mikasa, you 't take things from strangers~"

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