The most terrifying part was not even that. It was that the man's back had been pierced with countless black rods like a porcupine, and those black rods were connected to a towering humanoid body that seemed to be made of wood.
"What enormous Chakra..." Moriyue sensed the Chakra within the sleeping humanoid and was surprised even by his standards.
"You came?... You madman..." Nagato spoke weakly. His ideal was to use supreme violence to threaten the Five Great Nations into forced peace, but Moriyue's idea was much more direct: war existed because nations were divided. Unify them all, and there would be no problem. Or rather, even if war broke out in the future, its scale would be smaller.
"Mad? I don't think so. I think you're the crazy one, pursuing peace through violence. It seems you have your own understanding of peace." Moriyue did not restrain himself in the slightest because of the gigantic humanoid. He openly questioned Nagato's beliefs.
To his surprise, Nagato shook his head and slowly said:
"Those who have not experienced it cannot understand. No one can truly empathize with another. Only by experiencing it personally can people understand each other."
Moriyue could not agree. He shook his head as well, rejecting that view.
"Even those who have experienced the same thing may not understand each other. Faced with the same event, everyone may see and feel it differently. Land ravaged by war may bear blackened bloodstains, but it can also bloom with one-of-a-kind flowers. So-called empathy is merely a lie people tell themselves."
"A lie people tell themselves?" Nagato seemed interested in Moriyue's words and gestured for him to continue.
"What you said earlier was right. We can never truly understand each other, because everyone has lived a different life. To truly understand