Pain's Plan

Now that he knew about Pain's vision sharing, Minato became even more secretive in his Deva Path Pain. This made things even more difficult for Minato, who relied on the Flying Thunder God Deva Path Pain Technique to maintain high mobility while searching for a suitable opportunity to attack.

It's like a mosquito buzzing in your ear but you can't catch it at all. Deva Path Pain is feeling this way now. He wants to abandon Minato and go after other ninjas, but he keeps getting harassed by Minato.

"Um?"

Deva Path Pain lost a shared vision, and only then did he realize that Minato had been using himself as bait to hold Deva Path Pain back so that the Konoha ninjas could capture the other Pain in one fell swoop.

Konoha is now teeming with talent, and Pain will pay the price for his arrogance. Since awakening the Rinnegan Pain has gradually lost his fear and become disdainful of everyone.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The loss of two Pain in succession also awakened Deva Path Pain to the fact that he could not continue like this.

The repulsive force sent Minato flying, and the remaining Pain then went straight to Deva Path Pain's side.

"Yahiko, surrender!"

Jiraiya told his disciples that he truly didn't want them to die in Konoha. After all, Jiraiya had invested so much emotion in each of them. Moreover, it was Jiraiya had led them onto the path of the ninja.

The Konoha ninjas surrounded the remaining Pain. Konoha's forces were incredibly strong: two of the "Sannin," Jiraiya and Tsunade; the Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze Might Guy; Kakashi; Might Guy; the Hyuga brothers; the Ino- Ino-Shika-Cho; and even Fugaku was present. This lineup was worthy of a full-blown Fourth Ninja World War.

"Jiraiya- sensei, you're still as naive as ever!"

"I never thought I would fail when I came here."

Pain said calmly, Pain absolute confidence in his own strength.

You lost.

Hatake Sakumo pressed a knife against Sasori's heart and said, "If Hatake Sakumo exerts any force, Sasori will die."

"Yes, but you won't have an easy time either."

"Bang!"

Countless fine threads flew out from the scorpion's body. These threads were wrapped around the scorpion's limbs and could not be noticed unless you looked closely.

With his hands and feet bound, Hatake Sakumo tightened.

"People become less vigilant when they're feeling triumphant. That's exactly the moment I've been waiting for."

To achieve this, Sasori used all his puppets as bait, allowing Hatake Sakumo to destroy them one by one, ultimately even exposing his own weakness. He finally gained an opportunity, a chance to get close.

"Go and repent to my parents, Konoha's White Fang!"

After saying that, Sasori used his hand as a knife and plunged it directly into Hatake Sakumo's body.

"Wrong."

The scorpion felt nothing at all as the flesh was penetrated.

In fact, Scorpion's intuition was correct.

"Peng"

The original Hatake Sakumo had turned into a log. The real Hatake Sakumo was now standing behind Sasori, a knife pressed against his back. With just a little force from Hatake Sakumo, the knife could pierce through Sasori's back and reach his heart. Sasori was completely certain that if he made the slightest move Hatake Sakumo would kill him without hesitation.

"I'm curious, how did you know it was a trap?"

Sasori was very curious about how Hatake Sakumo used a Substitution Technique to appear in front of him.

"I didn't notice at first either. After all, I destroyed your puppets one by one."

"Until I decided to destroy your parents' puppet, your control was noticeably smoother than when you were controlling the other puppets."

"As expected of Konoha's White Fang!"

Scorpion knew he hadn't lost unjustly, because he had turned his parents' corpses into puppets so that his family could be together forever. He couldn't bear to see them suffer any loss.

Come on! Give me a ride!

Sasori knew he was doomed this time. He had killed so many Konoha ninjas; there was no way he could leave alive.

"Any last words?"

"Please bury me with my parents. If it's convenient, please pass on a message to my grandmother. Tell her that her grandson is unfilial."

"Can."

After saying that, Hatake Sakumo exerted force and pierced Sasori's heart.

Scorpion's eyes were fixed on his parents, as if trying to memorize their faces.

Hatake Sakumo placed Sasori's corpse beside his parents. Then he took out a scroll and put all three bodies into it. Hatake Sakumo intended to bury them in a quiet place free from war.

"Sakumo-sama."

Shisui brought the unconscious Deidara to Hatake Sakumo's side.

"Not bad! Shisui finished the battle so quickly."

Hatake Sakumo praised him. However, considering Shisui's strength, Hatake Sakumo wasn't surprised.

After handing the unconscious Deidara over to his subordinates, Shisui asked Hatake Sakumo going on.

"Sakumo-sama, what should we do now?"

"Now that things here are resolved, let's go support Minato and the others!"

From the information reported by the Anbu Ninja, Hatake Sakumo knew that the enemy's target was the Nine-Tails.

"Yes."

The two then rushed off in the direction where Minato and the others were fighting.

"Did the scorpion die too?"

Black Zetsu, that cunning old fox, only emerged from underground after he sensed that Hatake Sakumo's figure had walked far away.

"The losses this time were enormous."

Black Zetsu originally intended to take advantage of the absence of Karot and Orochimaru in Konoha to fish in troubled waters. However, Karot put too much pressure on him. Black Zetsu had heard Madara's assessment of Karot's strength. Even Madara himself said that one would need peak strength to fight Karot.

Black Zetsu then turned his gaze towards the Uchiha Clan. Black Zetsu knew the Masked Man's ulterior motives. Having lived for so long, Black Zetsu could see through the Masked Man's ambition at a glance. Although it was well hidden, no one was a fool. Everyone knew that the Masked Man's target was Nagato's Rinnegan. Nagato knew it too. However, everyone was using each other. It was just a matter of who would emerge victorious in the end.

Black Zetsu knew there was no point in him staying there any longer. He slowly sank until he disappeared.

"Everyone's here!"

Deva Path Pain, seeing Hatake Sakumo and Shisui arrive, said... Deva Path Pain had been stalling for time. He knew he couldn't possibly handle so many Konoha Ninja on his own. Even Madara would be severely injured by this force.

"Since you're here, why don't you all stay?"

Deva Path Pain finished speaking, his body slowly rose upwards, continuing to speak as he ascended.

Feel the pain, contemplate the pain, accept the pain, understand the pain.

"Oh no, stop him quickly!"

Jiraiya shouted. Although he didn't know what Pain was going to do, Jiraiya keenly sensed that if he didn't stop Pain, Konoha might be reduced to nothing.