"You're ssing with ."
Pain stated the obvious in an extrely indifferent tone, and the atmosphere instantly turned cold.
Shinji wasn't intimidated in the slightest and continued joking around. "Not at all. I'm just curious about the reason. If there's sothing wrong with us, we can change it, can't we?"
By now, Nagato no longer wanted to listen to these two spout nonsense and play dumb.
He controlled Pain's Deva Path to slowly raise one hand. "Once you witness the power of a god, you'll understand the reason."
Shinra Tensei!
Boom!!!
Everything in the surrounding area—flowers, grass, trees, insects, birds, beasts—was instantly blasted away by an irresistible force.
Although Shinji had realized what the other party intended to do the mont Pain raised his hand and had already braced himself, he was still sent flying a considerable distance, covered in dust.
Hidan had it even worse. The sudden, invisible nature of Shinra Tensei practically turned him into a bowling ball. He smashed through five trees before finally crashing to the ground.
When he got back up, he looked dazed—then suddenly realized he had been attacked.
"I've changed my mind! Even if you agree to join the Jashin cult now, it's too late! I'm going to chop you into pieces, bastard!"
Gripping the Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe, Hidan charged forward recklessly.
Shinji tried to stop him but failed.
In the next instant, Hidan flew back even faster than before, crashing through even more trees.
…Sure.
If Husky-Dan were reliable, then pigs would be climbing trees.
Pulling out the Executioner's Blade, Shinji didn't rush in. Instead, he waited for an opportunity.
He rembered that Pain's Deva Path had an interval between uses of Shinra Tensei, with the shortest cooldown being five seconds.
All he needed was for Hidan to act as bait once more, draw out another Shinra Tensei, and then he could activate his Piercing Shadow Strike, instantly cross the distance, and finish Pain with a single slash while Shinra Tensei was still on cooldown.
The script was perfect. Extrely feasible.
There was no way the opponent would expect soone to notice the flaw so quickly and devise a counterasure.
But the problem now was…
"Where am I supposed to kill seven people to warm up first?"
Shinji stared at the Seven-Kill Lamps on the Executioner's Blade, all currently extinguished, and fell into deep thought.
Ever since his battle with the 'Sand Spirit' Saibote, he hadn't caused any more trouble.
After leaving the Land of Wind, before he could find so unlucky soul to light the Seven-Kill Lamps, Pain had already shown up.
Which ant he could only stare helplessly—.
Piercing Shadow Strike was unusable.
"So… not killing people is also a bad habit."
Speechless, Shinji gave up on ending the fight quickly and decided to stall for a while instead.
Fortunately, only the Deva Path had co this ti, not all Six Paths of Pain.
He sliced open his wrist. Blood began to flow.
"Blood Manipulation technique: Supernova!"
After compressing it, a large number of blood bullets shot out with trendous kinetic force.
Pain's Deva Path expressionlessly struck a pose.
"Shinra Tensei!"
What blood bullets? All of them shattered and were blown away!
But this was exactly the mont Shinji had been waiting for!
"Hundred Convergences: Piercing Blood!"
With both palms pressed together before him, he compressed the blood, concentrating all kinetic force into a single point.
Bang!
The blood bullet tore through the air at supersonic speed.
Pain's Rinnegan imdiately captured this 'fish that slipped through the net,' but Shinra Tensei was still on cooldown and couldn't be used again.
"Was it seen through… or just coincidence?"
The thought flashed through Nagato's mind in an instant. He controlled the Deva Path to slightly raise his right hand while tilting his head aside.
Banshō Ten!
A terrifying gravitational pull instantly enveloped the blood bullet, dragging it off its original trajectory.
Smack!
The blood bullet struck the ground behind Pain, blasting out a small crater.
A thin line of blood trickled from Pain's right ear—just grazed monts ago.
Even though it was rely a corpse that felt no pain, it still bled when injured. Quite strange. Perhaps it had sothing to do with Nagato's unique preservation thods.
At that mont, the ever-energetic Hidan once again charged forward tirelessly.
Swinging the Triple-Bladed Scythe, he aid straight for Pain's head.
Pain's eyes sharpened, and he exerted even more force. "Shinra Tensei!"
Boom!
Hidan was sent flying over a hundred ters, even losing his weapon in the process.
But Shinji only wanted to say one thing to Hidan: Bro, nicely done!
Because the best way to break Shinra Tensei was exactly like before—one acting as bait, the other attacking in the gap.
At worst, it would be an extre one-for-one trade. Let's see who runs out of steam first.
Shinji: "Anyway, I'm not the one getting hit!"
"Blood Manipulation technique: Airborne Blood Crescent!"
Dozens of razor-like red crescent blades howled forward, sealing off all of Pain's possible escape routes.
This ti, Nagato was certain—the opponent had identified the flaw in Shinra Tensei in an extrely short amount of ti.
And that seemingly brainless guy had clearly volunteered himself as bait to create an opening for his companion.
Realizing this, Nagato finally grew serious, no longer underestimating them.
Two black chakra rods instantly slid from his sleeves into his palms.
Then, moving as fast as lightning, he spun them in a blur of afterimages, shattering each incoming blood blade one by one!
Even if soone discovered the cooldown of Shinra Tensei, it didn't an the Deva Path would beco easy prey.
"Hidan!"
Shinji shouted.
"That move's coming again, right? Sooner or later I'm gonna kill you, damn it! Screw you!"
Hidan cursed loudly but still charged forward without hesitation, drawing the enemy's focus.
But this ti, Pain did not fall for it.
In his preliminary judgnt, Hidan posed far less of a threat than the one called Akagi Shinji.
And if it was simply close-quarters combat, he could remain undefeated.
Thus, with his heart pounding, Hidan finally closed in on Pain.
"Why aren't you using that move anymore?"
"Do you even know how much it hurts to slam into a tree after getting blasted away? I'm going to mash you into a sticky pulp!"
Clang clang clang…!
A rapid series of weapon collisions rang out intensely.
Amid Hidan's maniacal laughter, Pain's defense remained watertight.
But as the saying goes, constant defense will eventually fail. Taking advantage of the strange, unpredictable range of his weapon, Hidan subtly let go—then grabbed the rope at his waist with his other hand.
The Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe, which had already been dodged, suddenly whipped back in a vicious reverse arc, about to slice into Pain.
A feral grin appeared in Hidan's eyes—you're dead.
The mont Nagato noticed this through the Rinnegan, he didn't hesitate to release Shinra Tensei once more.
The invisible, terrifying repulsive force instantly blasted everything away—including Hidan, who had been just a hair's breadth from success, leaving him so frustrated he wanted to spit blood.
However, Shinji, who had been circling around the periter, seized the opportunity instantly. With the Executioner's Blade in hand, he charged forward without hesitation and brought it down in a decisive overhead slash at Pain.
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