"Leader of Amegakure, are you sure you want to destroy the peace of the Ninja World?"
The Third Raikage shouted helplessly, fire blazing in his eyes.
It wasn't that he didn't want to charge up and beat Pain to death with his staff. Pain was hovering high in the air and refusing to come down, and he couldn't reach him!
This was also something that had left readers baffled in the original manga.
He clearly had air superiority and could bombard the ground from a safe position, yet he insisted on landing and fighting people hand-to-hand. Either he had something wrong with his head, or he was far too arrogant or overconfident.
Now that Uchiha An was involved, of course he wasn't going to let Pain stupidly come down and get surrounded.
Thanks to his earlier "uncanny foresight" in gathering intelligence, as well as his "heroic rescue" of Nagato, his suggestion was easily accepted by Nagato.
Pain was now hovering directly above the Hokage Building, where every shinobi and ordinary citizen in Konoha could see him clearly.
With the help of a special amplification Ninjutsu, his voice could also carry throughout the entire village.
"Peace?"
"The so-called peace of Konoha is nothing but a false prosperity built upon the corpses of countless small nations."
"The Five Great Shinobi Countries enjoy what they call peace, while repeatedly inciting conflicts and slaughter within the lands of smaller nations!"
"You act in the name of peace, but all you do is plunder."
"You talk endlessly about mutual understanding, love, and justice, yet anyone who refuses to follow the order imposed by the Five Great Shinobi Countries is seen as a threat and eliminated."
"Your actions will eventually make us realize that humanity is a foolish species that can never understand one another."
"Those