[Ōnoki: "To be fair, Naruto, you're a genius!"]
[Second Mizukage Gengetsu Hozuki: "Why are all the geniuses born in Konoha...?"]
[Mizukage Mei Terumi: "What a shame. He's a genius from Konoha..."]
[Ōnoki: "So what? Didn't he die anyway? How many geniuses from Konoha live to the end?"]
[Hanzo of the Salamander: "My thanks to Elder Danzo of Konoha!"]
[Fourth Raikage A: "Thank you, Danzo!!"]
[Tobirama Senju: "Danzo, I could curse you to death! Look at the monstrous things you've done!!"]
[Shimura Danzō: "Heh, a bunch of fools. Everything I did was for Konoha!"]
The footage continued.
Naruto began struggling with all his might and soon broke free.
"Senjutsu chakra seems to carry some risk..."
Pain looked at Naruto, his voice calm.
"That leaves you all alone now!"
"That's not quite right..." Pain shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Naruto looked bewildered.
"These Pains are all puppets. There seems to be a real body controlling them from the shadows..." Katsuyu explained.
"The real body?" Naruto froze.
Meanwhile,
The two toads had finished gathering their power and were ready to cast their Genjutsu at any moment.
But the next second, Pain raised his right hand.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
Sage Fukasaku was pulled toward him.
Naruto saw what was happening
and immediately lunged forward in alarm, heedless of the consequences.
"I've had enough of that Genjutsu!"
Without another word,
Pain seized the toad and swiftly drove a Black Rod into him.
At that moment,
Naruto saw the Black Rod pierce Sage Fukasaku's abdomen, and his pupils contracted.
With a thud, Naruto fell to the ground, having missed him.
"Pa!!!"
"You bastard!!!"
Naruto lost his reason and charged forward.
But Pain simply flung the toad at Naruto,
and Naruto came into contact with Sage Fukasaku.
But in the next second...
"Banshō Ten'in!"
Naruto's body was pulled forward against his will.
Pain grabbed him by the throat and slammed him into the ground.
Bang!!
The ground cracked at once.
Without another word,
Pain seized both of Naruto's hands and drove Black Rods through them.
At that moment,
Pain's chakra surged through him, throwing Naruto's chakra into disarray.
"That should make you behave a little, shouldn't it, Nine-Tails?" Pain's gaze was icy.
"Who the hell are you? Why are you doing this...?" Naruto shouted angrily.
"Why, you ask...?" Pain's voice was angry.
[Gamabunta: "Pain, you bastard, you're despicable!!!"]
[Sage Shima: "To think he'd use a method like that..."]
[Uchiha Tajima: "Despicable, perhaps, but it certainly worked. This sort of thing was common in our Warring States period..."]
[Uchiha Izuna: "That's right!"]
[Naruto Uzumaki: "Pain, I'll definitely defeat you!!"]
[Hidan: "You're at death's door and still talking tough. If you can turn the tables and kill our boss, I'll eat!!!"]
[Deidara: "Yeah! The roar of a loser, just like a stray dog by the roadside..."]
[Hashirama Senju: "This is really making me angry! I want to slap that Pain into next week!!!!"]
[Tobirama Senju: "Big brother, why are you patting my shoulder...?"]
The footage continued.
"Things always happen suddenly, and the reasons are often only discovered afterward. In this case, allow me to explain briefly..."
Pain's voice carried a note of reminiscence.
"I don't mind telling you about it."
"I've got nothing to say to a bastard like you!" Naruto angrily interrupted Pain.
"My goal is to carry out the unfinished wishes of Master Jiraiya. As I said before..."
"It is to create peace and achieve justice!"
"Peace? Justice? You've got to be kidding me! You've got to be kidding me!!" Naruto nearly roared upon hearing this.
"You destroyed my master, my teacher, my comrades, and my village!
What gives you the right to stand there talking about peace?!"
Naruto gasped for breath, his eyes full of anger.
"Then what is your goal?"
"I'm going to defeat you and bring true peace to the world!" Naruto said firmly.
"How admirable. Is that what you call justice?
But Konoha destroyed my family, my comrades, and my village. Just like what you're seeing now, it was all done by you Konoha Ninja!" Pain's voice was cold.
"What gives you the right to talk about peace and justice?"
"What's this about?" Naruto froze.
"The Land of Fire and Konoha are too powerful. To protect their national interests, they sought personal gain through wars between the great nations..." Pain recounted the past.
Back then, wars raged constantly between nations,
and the small nation where he lived suffered terribly under the bullying of the great nations.
His family had been tortured to death by Konoha Ninja while protecting him.
War ravaged the land, the small nation was full of suffering, and corpses lay everywhere beneath the ruins...
Everyone lacked food, the starved dead littered the ground, and there were even horrific cases of people trading children to eat!
This was what the great nations called justice?
How hypocritical!
Seeing those tragic scenes in the video, everyone fell into thought.
[Naruto Uzumaki: "This... how could this happen?"]
[Zabuza Momochi: "Little brat, this is war. Ninja are tools for killing to begin with. Did you really think you could be a hero?"]
[Juzo Biwa: "Konoha's ninja are ridiculous, each one more hypocritical than the last."]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Everyone, I hope the Shinobi World can achieve peace, so I propose that we all put the past behind us."]
[Fourth Raikage A: "Put the past behind us? My father was tortured to death by thirty thousand ninja from Iwagakure..."]
[Ōnoki: "Quite a few of our village's Jonin died at the hands of Konoha's Yellow Flash."]
[Mizukage Mei Terumi: "Hmph, without absolute benefits, it's all empty talk."]
[Boruto Uzumaki: "We're just watching a video. How did it get so serious...?"]
[Sarada Uchiha: "Idiot, Boruto, don't interrupt!"]
[Jiraiya: "Sigh, will the Shinobi World see peace in the future...?"]
[Hashirama Senju: "Third Hokage, why did Konoha destroy these small nations?"]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Lord First Hokage..."]
[Tobirama Senju: "Big brother, stop. You're too naive..."]
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