He wasn't injured, but things didn't seem too good. Touching his hair, White Fang thought to himself:
"My perfect hairstyle... gone."
"Ah!!!!"
Elsewhere, the Chakra aura around Heavenly Path Yahiko continued to grow stronger without any sign of stopping. Tsunade and the others faced him as if confronting a formidable enemy, rapidly retreating while watching Heavenly Path Yahiko warily.
Black Zetsu, standing beside Nagato, smiled—a deeply eerie smile.
"Pfft~~~"
Just as everyone thought they were about to be drawn into a bitter battle, something completely unexpected happened. An arm suddenly protruded from Nagato's body!!!
"This..."
Everyone froze, their minds suddenly going blank. What was going on?
Internal instability was one thing, but was this infighting?
The fact that Akatsuki's members had internal conflicts was already beyond everyone's expectations. Who would have thought such a scene would unfold?
As Nagato concentrated all his Chakra into Heavenly Path Yahiko, Black Zetsu, standing behind him with an eerie smile on his face, thrust his arm through Nagato's body. Blood dripped continuously from the gore-covered arm.
Nagato himself was stunned, and Tsunade's group was dumbfounded. It seemed that aside from Orochimaru, Obito, and Black Zetsu, no one knew what they were trying to accomplish.
"No!!!!"
Konan, who had been fighting White Fang, cried out in alarm. Abandoning White Fang, she rushed over, but once she neared Nagato and Black Zetsu, she did not dare approach any further.
At that moment, Konan's heart was filled with grief. To Nagato, Konan was the most important person; likewise, the same was true in return.
Without a doubt, Nagato was the person Konan cared about most—there was no one else!!!
No, he couldn't move. Nagato had never imagined that Black Zetsu would attack him, much less catch him off guard so completely.
Most fatal of all, Nagato found