No Ifs, Only Regrets (Bonus Second Update, Please Subscribe, Please Vote!)

No Ifs, Only Regrets (Bonus Second Update, Please Subscribe, Please Vote!)

Jiraiya's arrangement had been exceptionally ingenious. Of course, the intelligence sent from Kumogakure had played the greatest role.

Otherwise, even if he had wanted to make such targeted arrangements, it would have been difficult to accomplish them in such a short time.

At this point, aside from the Human Path, whose whereabouts remained unknown, the others had all fallen into his calculations.

Even the Human Path, who excelled at close-quarters combat and could read memories and extract souls with a mere tap on the head, had been kept from showing himself by Kakashi and the others' relentless long-range bombardment.

The true strength of the Six Paths of Pain lay in their unity as one, compensating for one another's weaknesses.

Once they were forced apart, their difficulty immediately dropped by several levels.

Of course, that did not include the strongest of them all, Pain's Heavenly Path.

Bang!

Jiraiya smashed straight through a wall and was sent flying out of the Hokage Building by Pain's Heavenly Path.

When master and disciple met, there was no warmth between them whatsoever.

Even though Jiraiya had tried to persuade him to turn back from his misguided path, the answer he received was completely different from what he had expected.

The truths he learned from Pain even left him speechless and filled him with guilt.

"Yahiko... No, I'd better call you Nagato. I want to know the truth behind Yahiko's death. How exactly did you learn about it? Were you manipulated by someone?" Jiraiya could never have imagined that the 'missing' Danzo had actually been killed by Nagato.

Pain's Heavenly Path leaped out through the broken wall. The moment he landed, he heard Jiraiya's question.

"Someone naturally told me. Danzo also admitted to his own