"Boom--"
Within the dense primeval forest, a terrifying explosion suddenly erupted, echoing through the night sky as birds and beasts scattered in panic.
A blue-haired woman with wings sprouting from her back streaked rapidly across the vast expanse, a tail-feather composed of countless paper sheets trailing behind her like a white phoenix soaring through the sky.
"Boom--"
Suddenly, a searing white beam of light shot forth from behind, striking the blue-haired woman's body dead-on. Anything grazed by that white beam of light was instantly decomposed into invisible molecular states.
The moment she was struck, the blue-haired woman's body spontaneously disintegrated into tens of thousands of white paper sheets that scattered across the entire sky.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!!"
Tens of thousands of paper sheets gathered simultaneously toward a single direction, blanketing the area where the figure who had just released the white beam of light stood.
Boom!!!
An even more intense and violent explosion echoed through the void.
The white paper sheets converged once again to form a long-legged beauty with blue hair and a black cloak lined with red—she was none other than Konan, the Angel of the Akatsuki organization who held the codename White Tiger.
She had escaped the Rain Village by means of reverse summoning, preparing to wait for Nagato to inform her that the crisis had passed, but unfortunately...
She did not receive good news from Nagato; instead, she received a note from him warning of danger, along with Black and White Zetsu, the most mysterious and unfathomable entities in the organization.
"Konan!"
"Since we've worked together, you only need to hand over the Rinnegan."
"I can let you leave."
A bandage-wrapped man with only his eyes exposed hovered in the air, calling out to her with the voice of Black Zetsu that Konan knew so well.