The view returned to Konoha's main battlefield. The people here had just gone through an exceptionally grueling battle. There was no need to describe how brutal it had been; everyone only knew that it ended with Pain successfully taking the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
The Akatsuki Organization had not emerged from this battle unscathed. In fact, even though every Akatsuki member possessed Super-Kage Level combat power, Konoha bore the title of the number one ninja village, and its hidden reserves ran unfathomably deep. Konoha had likewise inflicted irreversible damage upon them.
After this battle, the Akatsuki Organization's strength would be drastically reduced. To capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, they had joined forces for the first time—but that first time might also have been their last. Quite a few Akatsuki members had vanished without a trace after the battle.
Konoha's most dazzling performer had been Might Guy. That guy usually acted as though he had been pumped full of stimulants, constantly overflowing with energy. Though he held the rank of jonin, being a taijutsu ninja was hardly something considered worth boasting about.
Until this battle, that stereotype had been shared by every Konoha ninja. But when Guy single-handedly kicked Deva Path Pain—who had been gathering power in midair to unleash a finishing move that would destroy Konoha—straight out of the sky, shattering him along with Shinra Tensei, people had no choice but to reevaluate that man who never stopped talking about youth.
Still, there was good news. Since Guy had stopped Pain's final move, Konoha's losses remained within an acceptable range. Most of the earlier fighting had taken place on Konoha's outskirts, so the towns within Konoha itself had suffered relatively little collateral damage.
Originally, Nagato had not intended to let Konoha off so easily. Only after seeing that Moriyue and those ruthless figures