"You want to kill ? Do you even realize that I was the one who brought you into this world?!" The System glared at Kamizuki Hikari, its pair of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan looking especially bewitching at that mont.
Hikari smiled faintly. "You brought here? Are you sure about that?"
"Anyway, none of that matters. All I know is that you want my soul, and I don't want to die. So how about you die instead?"
"Don't kill ! Do you realize that with , you could transcend this world? You could go to other worlds and obtain far more cultivation resources. You might even encounter a world where you can truly beco an immortal! Your future achievents would be far greater than they are now. That would be a real immortal — not so fake like the Sage of the Six Paths!"
The System was begging for its life.
But Hikari's expression remained cold and completely unmoved.
*Crack... crack...*
A sound like shattering glass rang out. The System still wanted to say sothing, but the next mont Hikari's hand simply crushed it into fragnts.
Hikari didn't believe it, and he had no intention of wasting words with the System. In this world, it wasn't just villains who died because they talked too much — even the heroes had the sa problem. The best solution was to kill the other party before they could spout any more nonsense.
After destroying the System, Hikari looked at his own physical body, his expression sowhat complicated.
For so reason, he reached out and grasped the body, holding it in his hand.
"Since you could control my eyes, there's probably so kind of back-up plan hidden inside my body too, right? In that case... let send you off on your final journey!"
Hikari didn't dare take the gamble.
The System he had once relied on had been constantly suppressing his soul, waiting for the mont he achieved the power of the Six Paths — so it could use him as nourishnt.
He didn't want to die. He had no such noble spirit. So he could only send the system on its way.
Black flas erupted. Hikari's physical body slowly lted within the Amaterasu flas until it completely disappeared.
Gradually, Hikari's Yin spirit grew stronger and stronger.
---
At the gates of Konoha.
A group of Akatsuki mbers wearing black cloaks with red clouds stood with Pain at the center, facing the Five Kage opposite them.
"Fifth Hokage, hand over the Eight-Tails. If you do, we will leave today." Pain stated his demand.
Eight-Tails.
He didn't ntion the Nine-Tails at all.
Tsunade's expression shifted slightly. She wasn't sure whether Pain was using so kind of ploy, and she didn't dare take the risk. She knew full well that the Akatsuki's goal was to collect all nine tailed beasts.
This was one point the two sides could never reconcile.
"Impossible," Tsunade said firmly. "Whether it's the Eight-Tails or the Nine-Tails, I will never hand either of them over to you!"
Seeing that, Pain turned his head toward the Fourth Raikage. "Our Akatsuki has developed a cloning technology that can create a tailed beast. If the Fourth Raikage is willing to tell us where the Nine-Tails is hidden, I am willing to leave the Eight-Tails alone and only target Konoha. How about it?"
A blatant divide-and-conquer tactic.
It was crude, but often the most effective.
Because people's hearts are unreadable, and not long ago the Raikage had been humiliated by Tsunade. Under such circumstances, could the Raikage really let go of his grudge against Konoha?
No one could be sure.
Feeling the suspicious gazes around him, the Raikage's face darkened.
"Our Kumogakure will not sit idly by while your Akatsuki grows stronger. Neither the Eight-Tails nor the Nine-Tails will be handed over to you."
In truth, the Raikage felt bitter. He had never even seen where the Nine-Tails was hidden — asking him to reveal its location was simply impossible.
"Very well then. Let's begin!"
Since the attempt to sow discord had failed, Pain had no intention of wasting more words. Kamizuki Hikari had already been gone for quite a while. He didn't want to drag this out any longer — who knew when Hikari might return?
He needed a decisive victory. He needed to obtain the power of the Ten-Tails as quickly as possible.
As long as he beca the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki and the new god of the shinobi world, he could establish new rules and make the shinobi world follow his vision — a world without war.
"I'll handle the old man Ōnoki. The rest of you, stay out of it!"
Deidara declared loudly, then summoned a giant clay bird and flew into the sky.
"Old man, you were once my teacher. Today I'll let you witness the full extent of my power!"
Ōnoki frowned slightly but said nothing as he followed Deidara upward.
"My identity... the Sunagakure should already know it, right? Let us settle this today as well."
Sasori stepped forward. Looking at the young Gaara, Temari, and Kankurō, a feeling he didn't want to admit — envy — stirred in his heart.
He envied Gaara for having such bonds.
Since the Akatsuki's goal was about to be achieved, he simply wanted to settle his own affairs.
"Mizukage-sama, allow to be your opponent." Kisa Hoshigaki greeted Terumī i.
Under normal circumstances, i should have gladly accepted.
But she was going to disappoint him.
Tsunade imdiately grabbed i's arm.
"Even though the Akatsuki didn't ntion you, that doesn't an they've truly secured the complete Three-Tails. It's better if you stay in the rear."
After giving i that instruction, Tsunade stepped forward again.
"Enough talk. You people are just annoying to look at."
"Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees!"
A vast forest of trees burst out from the ground, surging straight toward the Akatsuki mbers.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Deva Path Pain unhesitatingly unleashed a smaller-scale Shinra Tensei, instantly clearing a large swath of trees.
But the very next mont, the broken trees regrew even more fiercely than before.
"Konan, fall back!"
Pain shouted. He and Konan imdiately flew backward.
"Hey hey, Boss! What about ?!"
Hidan yelled toward Pain, but very quickly he was completely ensnared by the trees and vanished from sight.
As for Uchiha Itachi, who had been standing there — at so point, he had already disappeared.
Whether it was a genjutsu or whether the one who ca was only a genjutsu clone from the beginning, no one knew, and no one bothered to ask.
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"No passage allowed here, sorry~"
Inside the Uchiha clan compound, Yakumo suddenly appeared in front of Uchiha Itachi, raising her hand to block his path.
*Mangekyō Sharingan, activate!*
"Tsukuyomi!"
The mont the Mangekyō technique was unleashed, blood trickled down from Itachi's left eye, making him look especially tragic.
But to his dismay, the Yakumo standing before him remained completely unaffected by his genjutsu.
"Using genjutsu in front of isn't a very good idea, you know~"
Yakumo smiled brightly at Itachi.
"Did you co here to take Sasuke away... or to kill him?"
Itachi fell silent.
Through his Mangekyō, he could vaguely see that sothing was strange about Yakumo.
Real and fake, illusion and reality — genjutsu was being displayed to its fullest extent on her.
"I just want to see him one last ti," Itachi said honestly, realizing he couldn't defeat her.
The current course of the shinobi world had already slipped far beyond his ability to control. Whether it was Pain of the Akatsuki or Tsunade of Konoha — he was no match for either of them now.
No matter which of them won in the end, he no longer wanted to interfere.
Honestly... he was tired.
His body wouldn't hold out much longer anyway.
He needed to use himself to help Sasuke awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, then give his eyes to Sasuke so that his brother would never go blind.
As for the shinobi world... it no longer had anything to do with him.
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