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[Naruto Shippuden] When the hell amd why did Nagato collect the bodies of people jiraiya met on his journey long before he even met the trio ? How would nagato even know who they were and where to find them? that can't have been random can it?
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You’re putting the cart before the horse. Nagato didn’t choose those specific people to turn into Pain bodies because Jiraiya met them. Jiraiya was fated to meet them in his journeys because Nagato would eventually go on to turn them into Pain bodies. Jiraiya fulfilled his part of the prophecy by realizing who Pain was because he was able to recognize the faces of who he was fighting, thus he could relay the message that the real one is not amongst them back to the Hidden Leaf.