Chapter 1046: Voting

One day later, in the territory of the Land of Fire, Akatsuki organization base.

Firelight flickered, and the underground base was illuminated brightly.

Su Xiao, Obito, and Deidara sat around a stone table. This was equivalent to the Akatsuki organization's meeting room, where anything would be discussed.

"Overall, this rescue plan was very successful, but there is one thing I'm curious about."

Obito wore black gloves, and his fingers tapped rhythmically on the stone table.

"Byakuya, the Third Tsuchikage was also in the underground prison. How did you rescue Deidara?"

Hearing Obito's words, Deidara was somewhat surprised.

"You fought with the Third old man?"

"Almost decomposed by Dust Release. As for how I rescued Deidara, the Third Tsuchikage slipped under his feet, and I took the opportunity to rescue Deidara."

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't say that it was Bubu Wang who rescued Deidara. He was indeed in a cooperative relationship with Obito now, but the day would come when both sides would turn against each other sooner or later.

"Slipped... under his feet."

Obito's face under the mask didn't look very good. He certainly didn't believe this ghost story of Su Xiao's.

While the three were chatting, a mummy walked over slowly.

"Who is this? A new member?"

Deidara tilted his body, somewhat confused in his eyes. He thought this "mummy" was a new member.

"Cough, this is Sasuke."

Obito looked at Su Xiao while speaking.

"It seems you have recovered well."

Su Xiao sized up Sasuke. The other party's recovery ability was stronger than expected.

"..."

Sasuke was silent. The reason was very simple: he didn't want to see Su Xiao in the near future. That was simply a nightmare-like memory. Sasuke was very glad about one thing: he had a lot of backbone during the surgery and didn't say anything embarrassing, although he had screamed somewhat embarrassingly in the last few days.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Kisame walked over from afar, followed by a young girl.

Except for White Zetsu who was searching for information outside, the members of the Akatsuki organization were all gathered. The purpose of gathering was whether the woman with the rose could join the Akatsuki organization.

If Nagato were still alive, if a new member wanted to join the Akatsuki organization, they would only need his consent. But now Obito was the leader of the Akatsuki organization, and he couldn't convince the public because he hadn't produced evidence regarding the identity of Uchiha Madara from beginning to end. Not only that, he had always been wearing a mask. The only ones in the Akatsuki organization who had seen his appearance were Nagato and Kisame. Su Xiao didn't count; he knew Obito's appearance through the original work.

"Facts have proven that a leader like Nagato who acts arbitrarily cannot lead us to the end, so I decided to adopt a voting system. It is now decided that if a new member joins, they need to get more than half of the votes."

Obito's method was very smart. He had already seen that Su Xiao somewhat rejected the woman named Rose, but Obito didn't want to offend Kisame, so he directly chose to vote. If the number of votes exceeded half, it would pass.

"Senior Byakuya seems to be somewhat unfriendly to me."

Rose, who was sitting beside Kisame, suddenly spoke. Her eyes, which were like black gemstones, blinked.

Su Xiao guessed the meaning of the other party's blinking; it was nothing more than not interfering with each other, and not stopping her from entering the Akatsuki organization.

Su Xiao wasn't deliberately targeting this girl named Rose. Although he hadn't perceived malice from the other party, he had detected a familiar aura.

That was a very peculiar aura, not killing intent, nor malice. Su Xiao once had this aura, or rather, temperament. This was the aura that would only appear when one hid all the hatred in their heart but was thinking about revenge at all times.

Su Xiao's biggest ambition once was revenge, so he trained a set of killing skills. But the thing was, his direction of revenge was somewhat of a mistake, which made Su Xiao, who learned the truth at that time, somewhat doubt life.

The killing skills originally honed for revenge were ultimately not used for revenge, but instead allowed Su Xiao to occupy a great advantage in the Reincarnation Paradise.

And after seeing Rose, Su Xiao seemed to see himself who had once sneaked beside the target, without any killing intent, but wishing to tear the enemy into pieces.

Su Xiao didn't know who Rose's target was, but he wouldn't let such a time bomb go ignored.

This was Su Xiao's personal feeling. Intuition was different from intuition ability. If intuition ability warned of Rose's hostility, Su Xiao would take action directly.

However, Rose disguised herself too well, and her personal favorability with Kisame wasn't low, which made things somewhat troublesome.

"Then, let's start voting."

Obito looked around at everyone.

"I agree with Rose's joining."

Kisame spoke first.

"I also agree. The Akatsuki organization is in urgent need of manpower now."

Obito was clearly not refusing anyone. He even dared to keep Su Xiao in the Akatsuki organization, let alone a perception-type woman.

"I oppose."

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't let Rose join the Akatsuki organization. Whether the Akatsuki organization was stable now concerned the progress of his main mission.

"I also oppose."

Sure enough, Deidara supported Su Xiao. The two were originally teammates in the same team, and their relationship wasn't something Obito and Kisame could compare to.

Two agreed, two opposed. Sasuke's choice seemed to play a crucial role.

"I... oppose."

Beyond everyone's expectations, Sasuke actually opposed.

"Your purpose makes me very suspicious, and whether I oppose or not doesn't matter."

Hearing this, Su Xiao looked at Sasuke with some surprise. The other party's IQ seemed to have improved significantly in the near future.

Sasuke was right. Even if Rose passed the vote, she couldn't join the Akatsuki organization. As for why Sasuke voted against it, it was entirely because he didn't want to be splashed with blood.

From this point, it could be seen that although Sasuke was young and sometimes reckless, it didn't mean he was stupid.

"What a pity, no new members joined."

Obito, Su Xiao, and Deidara all looked at Rose, while Kisame was expressionless.

"Sorry."

Kisame didn't know why he expressed apology to Rose.

This was actually very simple. The moment Rose entered the Akatsuki organization base, she either joined the Akatsuki organization or died here.

"Several seniors, I came here from thousands of miles away wanting to join you, but you want to kill me? Of course, I don't have the ability to resist, but if other defecting ninja know that you treat defecting ninja who surrender like this, what will they think?"

Rose wouldn't sit and wait for death. She wasn't afraid of anyone in the Akatsuki organization if she faced them alone, but if Su Xiao and Deidara joined forces, she definitely wouldn't be their opponent.

Not only that, Obito's attitude had always been unclear. Kisame was very likely not to take action to help her in this situation. As for Uchiha Sasuke, she ignored him for the time being. He was wrapped like a mummy. If he dared to join the fun at this time, she would let him know why flowers were so red, although she couldn't risk killing him, she would also beat him from Sasuke into a "Second Er Zhuzi."

The atmosphere in the room was somewhat tense, but Rose made sense. She came to surrender. If the Akatsuki organization killed her for no reason, once it spread, it would be very difficult for the Akatsuki organization to recruit defecting ninja again.

Su Xiao didn't care about this point, but Obito cared very much. He wanted to use the power of the Akatsuki organization to the maximum extent to achieve his goal.

"Byakuya, from the beginning, I felt that you were somewhat hostile to Rose. Give me a reason, a reason to kill her."

"Yes, a reason. Dying like this is too unjust."

Rose seemed to be struggling bitterly, but in reality, she was enjoying it. ===== CHAPTER 1047 =====