"I truly find it difficult to understand why the people here long for peace on the one hand, yet keep creating conflicts and wars without end on the other."
"When peace can truly descend upon you, you are instead caught up in things like desire, power, and fear, refusing to let peace arrive."
"Do you truly long for peace, or do you merely long to create peace yourselves so that you can leave your names in the annals of history, then bear and accept the accomplishments and honors that come with it?"
"Clearly so fragile and insignificant, yet you can never recognize your own true situation."
In this grotesque world torn apart by war, people's yearning for peace seems to be innate.
However, when peace is within reach, the desires hidden deep within these people's hearts, their pursuit of power, and their fear of the unknown awaken quietly like demons, attempting to ruthlessly devour the dawn of peace.
Such contradictory behavior seemed to be a human instinct.
Under the temptation of power, they would lose their reason and sink into endless conflict.
As for the weak individuals, they might yearn for peace even more, yet their own powerlessness left them unable to change the situation.
In such a helpless situation, they could only pray silently in the depths of their hearts, hoping for peace to arrive as soon as possible.
Now, peace had come.
But the people above them refused to accept it, so naturally, those at the bottom had no way to accept it either.
In Nagato's view, only by making these "Dominators" truly recognize their own weakness, learn to compromise completely, and let go of their desires and fears would peace truly arrive!
And now, Nagato would use the most direct and most brutal method to make these