The sky was always overcast, and the rain was always falling...
This was a country covered by rain.
Under the dark clouds, in the empty street, a young man with his hair tied back stood with a wet body, his gaze indifferent as he looked straight at the six people wearing black robes with red clouds standing at various positions on the building in front of him.
The six people in black robes with red clouds had different appearances and body types, but they had one thing in common... their eyes all had purple ripples spreading in circles.
These were the Six Paths of Pain.
Puppets created by Nagato and controlled by the Rinnegan.
Above the building where the Six Paths of Pain stood, a woman also wearing a black robe with red clouds flew in mid-air, the wings made of paper sheets on her back flapping constantly.
"Do you know the Earth-Moon transmission point?" The young man referred to as "Number Two" in the Reincarnator communication asked the Six Paths of Pain and Konan opposite him.
"..." However, his inquiry received no response from anyone.
Neither from the Six Paths of Pain nor from Konan.
The person in front of them suddenly appeared in the Hidden Rain Village and was detected by the Rain Tiger at Will Technique.
So he was treated with vigilance by the Six Paths of Pain and Konan.
"Are you not going to tell me?" Seeing the silence of the seven people opposite him, Number Two seemed a little distressed, "If you don't answer... then..."
Suddenly, his arm slashed through the rain curtain out of thin air.
Then, a zipper opening actually emerged on the trajectory he slashed, gradually expanding.
Inside was all illusory and chaotic colors.
Nagato, who controlled the Six Paths of Pain, and Konan frowned at the same time.
What is it?...
No chakra fluctuation...
Is it a special secret technique or Kekkei Genkai...
Both chose to watch the changes and did not take action.
Subsequently, Number Two reached his hand into that illusory chaos and groped for something.
"Caught it." Soon, he murmured, and then pulled out what he caught.
Startlingly, Nagato found that the head of one of his puppets seemed to be grabbed by something.
Under the shared vision of the manipulation technique, Nagato clearly sensed the Preta Path's vision blur, and the scene in front of him suddenly changed, appearing in front of the man who was obviously a distance away.
Before Nagato could manipulate the puppet to react, the man slashed his fingertip with lightning speed, and a zipper opening was instantly torn open on the Preta Path's neck.
With a "kacha" sound.
The inexplicable power carried by the zipper instantly severed the Preta Path's head.
The Preta Path, who was originally standing, unknowingly had a part of him inexplicably disappear, and the remaining body was not enough to support the controlled conditions, falling to the ground.
"This..."
Konan also saw this bizarre scene, so she showed a surprised expression.
What kind of ninjutsu is this... never seen it before... and it seems completely indefensible...
Even the puppet controlled by Nagato using the Rinnegan had no power to fight back.
Konan thought so, let alone Nagato who experienced it personally.
Not only that bizarre technique, but also... that extremely fast speed, killing the puppet without giving any time to activate techniques...
This person... is very strong...
Nagato behind the scenes gradually looked solemn.
"So do you know the Earth-Moon transmission point?" Number Two asked again.
Having crushed a Pain puppet as a display of power right at the start, the response to Number Two naturally couldn't be an answer, but the raised hand of the Deva Path Pain and the spreading pupil power.
"Universal Pull!"
Invisible power erupted, Number Two's body floated uncontrollably, forcibly pulled by a force, dragged flying towards the Deva Path Pain.
At this time, the other Pain puppets jumped up, facing Number Two, instantly taking out pitch-black iron short rods from their bosoms, the sharp ends stabbing down towards Number Two.
'Powers of attraction and repulsion?'
In mid-air, Number Two, who was about to be attacked, did not panic at all, thoughts flashing in his mind.
In an instant, he saw through the two powerful abilities of the Deva Path Pain.
Immediately, his arm slashed again.
A zipper opening was pulled open again.
Complying with inertia, Number Two's figure jumped directly into it and disappeared.
The black rod attacks of the remaining four Pains naturally missed after the target disappeared, but they did not give up. Instead, they directly shot the sharp black rods in their hands towards that illusory chaotic zipper opening.
"Kacha..."
Suddenly, a zipper opening cracked open in the air behind Konan.
What?
Konan only realized it when the zipper opening was fully pulled open.
She originally thought that the young man with tied-back hair would appear, but unexpectedly, what appeared were dozens of black rods shooting out rapidly.
"Paper Style."
Konan was about to transform her body into paper the moment she realized it.
But before she could fully transform into paper, the first black rod had already touched Konan's body.
Instantly, the effect of the black rod erupted, disrupting the trajectory of Konan's chakra circulation, causing her Paper Style to stagnate, and the parts transformed into paper were forcibly converted back into a solid body.
"Puchi puchi..."
Next, was the sound of several black rods stabbing into flesh.
"Almighty Push!"
Nagato, realizing that Konan was hurt by his own attack, also hurriedly manipulated the Deva Path Pain to skillfully radiate pupil power, erupting invisible power to push away those black rods that were about to continue hurting Konan.
"Cough..." In mid-air, Konan spat out a mouthful of blood, her face somewhat pale.
Hit by the black rods, her chakra circulation disrupted, the paper wings on her back also gradually began to scatter, and her body kept falling down.
"Konan..." As a close friend, Nagato naturally cared about Konan's condition very much and hurriedly manipulated a nearby Pain puppet to catch Konan.
However, the zipper opening behind Konan's original position from which the black rods were shot was suddenly pulled open again, and Number Two with a wild smile jumped down rapidly.
One of his fingers hooked the edge of the zipper opening that came out, actually dragging that zipper opening down continuously, towards the somewhat weak Konan.
If he let the zipper touch Konan's body, she would probably be... severed like the head of the Preta Path!
But at this distance... the puppet manipulated by Pain couldn't support in time at all!
Fearfully, Konan would soon perish!
The Deva Path Pain raised his hand wanting to use Universal Pull to pull Konan over, only to find... Universal Pull was still on cooldown...
The puppet Deva Path Pain's expression was emotionless, but Nagato, staying in a certain place, had his pupils shrink.
"Whoosh..."
Suddenly, the street ground below Konan cracked open, clusters of black threads emerged and invaded upwards, suddenly wrapping Konan inside.
Number Two had no doubts or hesitation, still bringing the zipper opening down.
Instantly, the zipper opening cut apart the clusters of black threads.
After landing on the ground, Number Two seemed to feel that the remaining black threads were annoying, and immediately waved his arm vigorously.
The zipper opening expanded in an instant, wrapping all the black threads on the ground inside.
"Close." Under Number Two's murmured command, the zipper opening pulled shut, sending all the black threads into the unknown void.
Nagato behind the scenes looked ashen. His close friend of many years just...
"Kacha..."
Suddenly, beside a certain Pain, a pit cracked open on the ground. A small figure jumped out of the pit, then brought out a pale female figure from the pit.
Looking closely, that small figure was startlingly Kakuzu who was more than a size smaller, and the pale female figure was Konan whom he thought was dead.
For a moment, Nagato's suspended heart was slightly relieved.
It's good that she's okay.
One of his close friends had already died; he really didn't want his last remaining close friend to die.
"Thank you, Kakuzu." Nagato expressed his gratitude to Kakuzu with Pain's expressionless face.
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