Watch out!
Since the opponent had not touched Sakura directly, Naruto managed to save her at the critical moment.
With that delay, Konoha's reinforcements arrived to aid Naruto.
When Jiraiya and Tsunade arrived, Deva Path Pain was flinging Sakura away like trash. Tsunade was utterly furious, her fists clenched as though she would rush forward and fight them to the death the next second.
Jiraiya, on the other hand, wore a bitter expression. He knew that things had reached this point and that there was no way he could stop it. In the end, master and students would have to engage in a battle to the death.
Thinking of this, Jiraiya even felt somewhat guilty. As their teacher, he had failed to guide his students down the right path. If only... but there were no ifs.
Paper scraps drifted through the air before finally gathering beside Deva Path Pain and forming Konan's figure. Seeing this, Jiraiya slowly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he no longer hesitated.
Even if they were his students, he could not back down when they threatened the village.
"Yahiko, Konan..." Jiraiya's feelings were complicated. Even now, he could not understand why the war orphans he had once taken in—his students—had formed the Akatsuki Organization. It completely ran contrary to the will of peace he had taught them.
"Jiraiya-sensei, only those who have experienced pain can truly understand peace. If people have never experienced the pain of war, they can never understand one another. So from this moment onward, bring pain to the world. Make the world feel pain. Only then can we build a peaceful world where everyone understands one another..."
Deva Path was fully aware of what he was doing. He intended to bring pain to the world. This was his path