This matter naturally did not receive Pain's approval. He believed that it was not yet time for the Akatsuki Organization to be exposed and that they needed to continue gathering members.
"We understand the tricky nature of Jiraiya-sensei."
Pain shook his head, expressing his dilemma: "If we want to kill Jiraiya-sensei, we must find a way to prevent him from passing on information. If the intelligence gets leaked, it would only lead Konoha Village to blockade the Akatsuki Organization."
Konan frowned, voicing her worry: "I'm still concerned that Orochimaru might leak information about the Akatsuki Organization..."
"There's no need to worry."
Pain interrupted her, confident in his control over Orochimaru: "As long as we are strong enough, Orochimaru will be obedient and behave... Orochimaru is a dangerous figure, so it's best to keep him at the base and not send him out on missions in the future."
"Understood..."
Konan thought of the Akatsuki Organization's situation, frowning, but it didn't detract from her beauty and cool demeanor: "Uchiha Obito is hiding somewhere..."
"If Orochimaru isn't going on missions, then Scorpion, who's responsible for monitoring him, must also stay at the base to prevent Orochimaru from causing trouble there..."
"Kakuzu's team can often go out on missions, but Kakuzu always kills his teammates for bounties, not even allowing enough time to find replacements for him..."
"Did Kakuzu's teammate die again?"
Pain felt that this member was truly troublesome upon hearing this.
"Yes."
Konan nodded and added: "Kakuzu's teammate had a bounty of seven million ryo, and he brought back the person's corpse exchanged for money, along with the ring symbolizing the identity of Akatsuki. He claimed that it was eliminated during the mission."
"This is the fourth case this year..."
Konan found recruiting manpower troublesome: "There are too few S-Class Traitorous Ninjas in the Ninja World," and even rogue Jonin are hard to come by, making it difficult to find suitable teammates for him."
After discussing Kakuzu's troubles, Konan naturally mentioned his achievements: "However, Kakuzu's mission bounties this month amounted to at least thirty million ryo, though a quarter of that came from killing his teammate..."
"..."
Pain found himself at a loss for words.
Since the Akatsuki Organization was established, only Kakuzu was adept at amassing funds. Red Sand Sasori and Orochimaru disliked doing missions, while Uchiha Obito often played the role of a guide and had differences with them.
"Continue finding teammates for Kakuzu."
Pain could only instruct helplessly.
While they were discussing, Red Sand Sasori and Orochimaru returned to the Akatsuki base one after the other, with Sasori arriving even faster.
"Return my things to me."
Red Sand Sasori raised his hand to demand his human puppet from Orochimaru.
"..."
Orochimaru raised his hand and tossed a scroll to Sasori, chuckling lightly: "I thought I wouldn't make it in time to save you, but by the time I got back, you were already gone..."
"..."
Sasori didn't respond.
At that time, he hadn't been gone but had been captured!
If it weren't for that bastard Orochimaru passing information about him to Akihara Kagura, he wouldn't have been caught by those subordinates!
However...
There also wouldn't have been a chance to become the most powerful puppet!
Sasori reached out to accept the scroll, jotting down this debt with Orochimaru, planning to settle it when Orochimaru was no longer useful.
"..."
Orochimaru watched Sasori with a silent smile.
In this battle, Orochimaru reaped a significant reward by seizing the opportunity to pass orders to Akihara Kagura, and he also discovered Sasori's weakness...
This Puppet Master...
Had even transformed his own body into a human puppet!
Though such a method indeed grants immortality, it ultimately has a few drawbacks, making his weaknesses easily exposed to others.
In the future...
Perhaps there's a chance to control Red Sand Sasori.
"Orochimaru!"
As the two returned, Konan approached to commend them: "You two completed the mission well, and the client was very satisfied this time."
"By the way."
After speaking, Konan brought up the previous issue: "Pain didn't agree to your proposal; it's not yet time for Akatsuki to be exposed..."
"Can't we really kill Jiraiya?"
"But Jiraiya might already know about Akatsuki."
Orochimaru glanced at Sasori, seizing the opportunity to place future blame on him: "Jiraiya attacked one of my bases, and when Scorpion saw Jiraiya, he wanted to make him into a puppet. We had no choice but to engage in battle, perhaps revealing Akatsuki's existence..."
It was simply too fitting!
With the information reaching Akihara Kagura, they would undoubtedly team up with Jiraiya to investigate Akatsuki, stirring chaos within, with Red Sand Sasori taking the blame!
"..."
Konan suddenly felt a headache.
"..."
Sasori found himself at a loss for words.
At that moment, an entity suddenly took control of his body and, using his voice, coldly retorted: "If it weren't for you insisting on ignoring the mission to enter that base, we wouldn't have encountered Jiraiya. I was merely trying to eliminate anyone who saw Akatsuki..."
As Sasori continued, he grew more vigorous: "If you had agreed to join the battle against Jiraiya instead of wanting to watch from the sidelines, we would have already dealt with him, and his reinforcements wouldn't have arrived in time!"