Sasori was currently a bit dumbfounded.
Something was wrong!
He had come here expecting his opponent to be Orochimaru, who had returned to the Hidden Leaf.
And besides...
Wasn't this guy an Uchiha?!
What was with that speed just now?
His Hiruko puppet had actually been trampled and shattered like a piece of junk?
[Kankuro: Mine, they're all mine! Ugh, stop stepping on them...]
Kazama raised his hand and aimed it at Sasori.
Don't misunderstand—raising his hand wasn't to offer an apology, but rather: Fire Style: Blue Flame Eruption!
A vortex of blue-gold flames surged out instantly.
A signless Fire Style jutsu with overwhelming impact and temperature. Moreover, it would trigger an explosion upon contact with the target.
BOOM!
A terrifying explosion left a molten crater ten meters wide in its wake.
Although Sasori had managed to escape, his right arm was now gone.
"What is this?!"
"Wait..."
"What did I come here for?"
Sasori's brow furrowed. He pulled a scroll from his back and quickly took out a new arm to replace the missing one.
During the process of swapping arms, Sasori had already retreated over fifty meters.
If it weren't for the fact that Deva Path Pain had not yet made a move, it would be difficult for Sasori to determine if Pain could handle Uchiha Kazama.
At this moment, Sasori was already considering making an escape.
"So, have you chosen to ignore me?"
As the voice of Deva Path Pain fell, he was already standing beside Uchiha Kazama, his hand raised and aimed at Kazama's head.
"Almighty Push!"
A terrifying repulsive force erupted instantly.
The powerful force blasted a massive gap into the gates of the Hidden Leaf.
However, Kazama's figure had already vanished.
"I say, you are supposed to be one of the Legendary Sannin of the Hidden Leaf... can't you be at least slightly useful?"
"Also, you just called that guy's name, didn't you?"
"If he's an acquaintance of yours, I'll leave him to you to handle."
BANG!
Uchiha Kazama had already appeared in front of Jiraiya.
The Preta Path Pain, which had been pinning Jiraiya down, was directly smashed to pieces under Kazama's fist.
Jiraiya was freed.
"This guy's ability is very strange; he can absorb my chakra."
"Moreover, these guys all possess the Rinnegan."
"Hokage, you also need to—"
"That is your job."
Kazama interrupted Jiraiya's words.
This was the rebellious disciple Jiraiya had raised; he should deal with it himself.
"Yahiko, why are you doing this?"
"And... where on earth did those eyes come from?"
Jiraiya understood Kazama's meaning.
Although he wasn't sure why Uchiha Kazama knew about his relationship with Yahiko and the others, at least he was being given this opportunity now.
In Jiraiya's memory, Yahiko had died at the hands of Hanzo.
Now, not only was he resurrected, but he also possessed Nagato's Rinnegan.
He had to figure this out first.
"Yahiko?"
"Heh... Yahiko is already dead!"
"Teacher, this was your choice, wasn't it?"
After Deva Path Pain finished these few sentences, he immediately charged toward Jiraiya.
The other Paths of Pain around them also began to move.
Animal Path Pain folded its hands, and one massive summoned beast after another appeared.
Asura Path charged directly ahead of Deva Path, taking the lead in launching an attack on Jiraiya.
"Can't you just let me watch in peace?"
A skeletal arm appeared behind Kazama, and a long blade swung down.
The head of a giant chameleon, which had appeared invisibly behind Kazama, was sliced clean off.
The entire body vanished into a cloud of white mist.
The person Kazama was waiting for had not arrived yet.
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
Just as Kazama deactivated the Susanoo behind him, sheets of paper began to coil around him.
Konan had released her Dance of the Shikigami, completely enveloping Kazama.
Her upper body manifested in front of Kazama.
"Fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf, you... were too careless."
"Also, I suggest you'd better not move. Your body is currently covered in paper bombs."
"With just a single thought, I can kill you."
Konan's threatening voice rang out slowly.
"Paper bombs?"
"Since when did toys like that become something capable of killing people?"
"Besides... you should know that I am... an Uchiha, right?"
Kazama sneered.
The Mangekyo Sharingan began to spin instantly. Konan, who had been staring intently at Kazama, found her beautiful eyes turning vacant.
Shasha...
The paper bombs that had been stuck to Kazama's body began to fall away.
Konan fell to her knees before Kazama, already trapped within an endless genjutsu.
"Pitiable woman."
"I shall give you one final moment of happiness."
Kazama extended his finger and tapped Konan.
Within the genjutsu space:
[The Hidden Leaf turned to ruins, Sage Naruto descends]
[Naruto's "Talk no Jutsu," Nagato's realization]
[The swan song of the Rinnegan, Rinne Rebirth Jutsu]
[The masked man behind the scenes, 600 billion paper bombs become a joke]
...
Acting with the "Eye of God," Kazama gave Konan a direct spoiler of the future.
Kneeling on the ground, tears began to stream from the corners of Konan's eyes.
She had always harbored suspicions about that masked man, but Nagato believed in him, so she could only assist and comply.
After seeing these "futures," Konan's final persistence crumbled.
"Universal Pull!"
Before the genjutsu had even ended, Konan's body was pulled away.
Deva Path Pain's Rinnegan were filled with fury.
"Hey, hey, hey..."
"What's with that expression?"
"What, you come here to destroy the Hidden Leaf, and now you're hating on me?"
Kazama looked at Jiraiya, who was being held back by several Paths of Pain, and felt somewhat speechless.
Hoping to end the battle quickly through Jiraiya was likely impossible.
It wasn't that Jiraiya was too weak.
It was that currently, when facing Yahiko and Konan, the man lacked sufficient killing intent.
Mostly, he was just testing them.
"Forget it, waiting for you to handle these toys is too much trouble."
As Kazama said this, a long blade condensed from chakra appeared in his hand.
"A chakra blade?"
"Uchiha Kazama, do you think—"
Puff, puff, puff, puff...
The chests of Deva Path, Human Path, Asura Path, and Animal Path Pain were instantly torn open by massive wounds.
"This isn't a chakra blade. It's the blade that will take your lives... the Blade of the Shinigami!"
The long blade in Kazama's hand swung again.
This time, Kazama aimed for their necks.
Even though there was no physical contact, and no significant chakra fluctuation was felt...
In the next moment...
The necks of the four Paths of Pain all exploded.
The five Paths of Pain that had appeared were now all completely taken out.
"Hokage, you..."
Jiraiya was stunned.
He still had so much he wanted to ask Yahiko, but before he had the chance, Kazama had already finished them off.
"I say, did you really not perceive that these things are just puppets?"
Kazama really felt like slapping Jiraiya right now.
This guy... was truly too useless!
"Huh?"
"This..."
Jiraiya was taken aback. When he regained his senses, he realized that the Paths of Pain Kazama had just struck down had all disappeared.
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