"Madara-sama, are you worried that Renya will betray us?"
After Renya left, Tobi asked in confusion.
Madara-sama seemed to have never trusted him, always hinting at it in his words.
Uchiha Madara did not respond.
Before the Eye of the Moon Plan is fully realized, absolutely nothing can be allowed to go wrong.
Especially Renya, who has lived inside Konoha for so many years.
He felt that this kid might turn traitor at any moment—being cautious was only natural.
After all, Renya's adoptive father was Senju Tobirama, right?
Renya stared straight into his eyes every time, practically drooling.
Madara didn't even need to think to know that the kid was eyeing his Rinnegan.
What he said earlier was to hint to Renya that his remaining time was running short.
He wanted to see whether the boy would make some irrational decisions.
Fortunately, the kid had the desire but not the courage. As long as Renya kept behaving as he did now…
Renya wouldn't dare make a move.
Uchiha Madara had indeed considered giving the Rinnegan to Renya to make collecting the Nine Tailed Beasts easier.
But what if Renya got the eyes and forgot his loyalties?
So he abandoned the idea.
The ideal of peace in the shinobi world should be realized by himself—this was the safest way.
...
"Too outrageous… Madara-sama was clearly tempting me on purpose!"
Renya complained indignantly.
Looks like Madara had noticed his interest in the Rinnegan.
If he had done something outrageous just now—like exposing the Infinite Tsukuyomi conspiracy, or directly asking for the Rinnegan…
Madara-sama would have definitely smashed his head with his staff in a fit of rage.
Was he really supposed to go along with Madara-sama's Eye of the Moon Plan?
Renya couldn't help feeling a headache.
He knew he should never have gotten involved in the friendship between Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.
And now he was stuck. No way to get out.
If worse came to worst… he could just reveal everything to Madara-sama.
Then desperately use talk-no-jutsu to persuade him to give up the false plan and return to the village to retire peacefully.
Though the chances seemed slim, he still had to try.
What if it worked?
If even that didn't work, then he would have no choice but to use force.
Just gather a bunch of people and gang up on him.
No way a sixty- or seventy-year-old Madara-sama could beat a group of young shinobi.
Worst case… they'd just beat Uchiha Madara!
It wasn't like he wanted to completely fall out with Madara-sama, but sometimes there was no choice.
They had only captured one Tailed Beast so far. Collecting all of them would still take a long time.
No need to rush—deal with it slowly.
...
Konoha Command Camp.
"Renya, where did you go?"
Commander Nara Mikage looked at Renya excitedly.
Information from the front line reported that Renya had defeated and captured the Four-Tails jinchūriki, Rōshi.
For Iwagakure to lose a jinchūriki—it made the Third Tsuchikage furious.
Konoha could demand an enormous ransom from Iwagakure in exchange for Rōshi.
Huge profit!
"Renya, where is the Four-Tails jinchūriki?"
Not seeing Rōshi anywhere, Nara Mikage quickly asked.
They absolutely couldn't let him escape—a huge ransom was on the line.
"The Four-Tails jinchūriki fell unconscious. The Tailed Beast broke free of the seal and went into full rampage. I had no choice but to kill it."
Renya said this without blushing.
He had spent the entire way back planning this explanation and found no major problems with it.
Besides, Rōshi was already dead. There was no evidence to contradict him.
"You're saying… you killed the jinchūriki?!"
Nara Mikage looked shocked, feeling a bit of regret.
So the ransom money was now gone.
Though it was a pity, he did not doubt Renya's words.
Renya was a shinobi of the village—he wouldn't lie about something like this.
And Rōshi's death was still beneficial to Konoha.
"Commander-sama, this is a letter from Iwagakure!"
The intelligence courier presented a letter.
Nara Mikage didn't even need to read it to know what it said—likely that Iwagakure wanted to pay to retrieve Rōshi.
He had already prepared to extort them heavily, but now it seemed impossible.
He wrote Renya's explanation exactly as given and ordered the courier to send the letter back.
"Renya, rest well so you can face the battles ahead."
Renya had just defeated a Tailed Beast's jinchūriki; of course he needed to recover his chakra and stamina.
He naturally wouldn't refuse rest.
Soon, he fell asleep on his portable reclining chair.
...
Meanwhile, in the Iwagakure command tent, Ōnoki could not sleep at all after hearing the news.
"Rōshi unconscious, Four-Tails rampaged, forced to kill?!"
He slammed the documents on the table, his face twisting with anger.
What nonsense!
Rōshi was Iwagakure's perfect jinchūriki, long since in harmony with the Four-Tails.
That was precisely why he had sent Rōshi to the battlefield.
How could the Four-Tails take over his body while Rōshi was unconscious?!
Impossible—absolutely impossible!
Damn Konoha—of course they knew Rōshi was a perfect jinchūriki!
So they decided to kill him on purpose!
That evil-born Uchiha Renya—he deserved death!
"Uchiha Renya! I won't let you get away with this!" Ōnoki's eyes burned with rage.
Clearly, he loathed Renya's act of killing a captive.
Especially after all the accumulated grudges from the battlefield—his hatred for Renya reached its peak.
Never in his life had he despised someone so much.
"Tsuchikage-sama, please calm yourself!"
The battlefield commander rushed forward anxiously.
He was terrified that the Tsuchikage might do something irrational in his anger.
That would only bring disaster to Iwagakure's shinobi.
"Calm down? How do you expect me to calm down?!"
Iwa Commander: "…"
Soon, news of the Four-Tails jinchūriki Rōshi being killed by Renya spread across the battlefield.
...
In the Kumogakure command tent—
"Blue B, if you encounter Renya on the battlefield, run immediately if you can't beat him!"
The Second Raikage warned very seriously.
If Renya could kill one jinchūriki, he could kill a second.
He absolutely didn't want Blue B ending up like Rōshi.
"I understand, Raikage-sama," Blue B replied respectfully.
He had long heard of Konoha's 'Poison Master'—Renya's fearsome strength.
To every Kumogakure shinobi…
If they met Renya on the battlefield, they would run without hesitation.
Otherwise, they might die.
Rōshi next door had already proven Renya's power with his life.
"Forget it—don't go to the battlefield for now."
Even after warning him, the Second Raikage still felt uneasy.
He was sure Renya was targeting jinchūriki. It was better to keep Blue B away from the front lines.
Otherwise he might be slaughtered.
If a jinchūriki died, the Tailed Beast inside would die too.
Kumogakure was already suffering enough—losing a Tailed Beast's deterrence would be disastrous.
Blue B had no objections. Who wanted to go die, when staying alive was an option?
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