Land of Rain, in a cave.
"Nagato, are you okay?"
A cold-looking girl with purple hair asked with a worried expression.
Nagato, who was covered in serious injuries, had just opened his eyes, looking dazed. A moment later, he came back to his senses.
"I'm fine, I'm okay..."
The current Uzumaki Nagato didn't look like a withered skeleton, but his injuries were far more severe than in the original work. Both his legs had completely disappeared, and there were many signs of decay on his body, with faint black blood around the wounds.
Fortunately, it seemed these wounds had begun to recover; otherwise, it wasn't impossible that he might have dropped dead at any moment.
Just a while ago, the conflict between the Akatsuki Organization and Hanzou occurred. Unlike the original work, this time, because Uchiha Madara had already been eliminated and the Gedo Statue had been absorbed, Nagato naturally couldn't summon the Gedo Statue to save his life.
The White Zetsu who should have protected him also abandoned him—the revival tool designated by Uchiha Madara—because of the death of Uchiha Madara and the appearance of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. Naturally, the final result was even more miserable than in the original work.
Although stimulated by Yahiko's death, the rampaging Uzumaki Nagato fully unleashed the power of the Rinnegan. But without the Gedo Statue to hold the line, Uzumaki Nagato had no way to defeat Hanzou with overwhelming power and could only eventually flee in embarrassment with Konan.
And Hanzou naturally wouldn't let it go, especially since he had already seen Nagato's Rinnegan, and thinking that Nagato was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy...
If he were allowed to develop for a few more years, would he still have a way to live? Chase, he must chase! He had to finish off this Rinnegan-wielding Ninja before he could grow up!
The heavily injured Nagato was already in a desperate situation under constant pursuit. But just at this moment, Vegapunk launched the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and everyone in the world was caught in it.
On the contrary, Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan, could ignore the power of the Infinite Tsukuyomi and used this opportunity to kill his pursuers, which allowed him and Konan to hide in the deep mountains and forests.
In the cave, the cold-looking girl with purple hair, who was Konan, reached out her hand after hearing Nagato's reply. Green light faintly appeared on her palm, and she began to treat Nagato.
This was the Medical Ninjutsu that Konan had learned in the genjutsu space. Unfortunately, her Yang Release level was very low, and she couldn't practice Chakra nature transformation in the genjutsu space, so she couldn't learn powerful Medical Ninjutsu and could only barely use some hemostatic Ninjutsu to treat Nagato.
It was also fortunate that Nagato, as a member of the Uzumaki Clan, had strong vitality, and this time there wasn't a vampire like the Gedo Statue, so in such a heavily injured state, he could still catch his breath and even showed signs of recovery.
"During this time, it seems there haven't been many Amegakure Ninjas coming to hunt us down."
Nagato, having caught his breath, looked at the cave entrance and said to Konan with a weary voice.
"Heh, that Hanzou is probably already overwhelmed himself now; where would he have the mind to hunt us down?!"
Konan's voice was still cold, but her tone still carried a bit of schadenfreude.
Hanzou implemented high-pressure rule over Amegakure, so the psychological pressure on the Ninjas in Amegakure was naturally high, and their mental state wasn't much better. At first, stimulated by the dream realization space of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, quite a few madmen with self-destructive tendencies appeared who wanted to perish together with the entire Ninja village.
After suppressing that wave, the second launch of the chakra network space gave many weak Ninjas a chance to turn the tables, leading to the Rogue Ninjas in Amegakure appearing in droves during this period.
Previously, it was one by one defecting; now, they were defecting in teams. Hanzou was currently unable to take care of himself, so even if he knew the threat of Nagato was great, he could only deal with the village's problems first.
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