"Shisui Uchiha! You despicable bastard, you hid off to the side and slacked off, and only came to help now!"
Although Nagato had just suffered serious injuries, he gritted his teeth furiously as he complained about Shisui, his voice still full of strength.
"You can say I arrived late, but you can't slander me by saying I was slacking off. You might not believe it, but I already died once just now. I was simply lucky enough to come back to life."
Shisui would never admit to something he had not done.
"You came back to life again? I want to beat you to death right now," Nagato said bitterly.
If Nagato had not estimated that he was no match for Shisui to begin with—and after his consecutive battles, enormous expenditure, and injuries, was even less of a match—
He would have fired off two Tailed Beast Bombs at Shisui to show him that Nagato was no pushover.
At that moment, Shisui noticed the wound on Nagato's back and the black rods extending from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. His gaze sharpened, but after noticing that Nagato was still in decent condition and had not been drained into a shriveled skeleton, he looked elsewhere.
He understood that the wound had been caused when the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path extracted chakra from Nagato's body. It seemed the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails Jinchuriki had caused Nagato quite a bit of trouble.
"Are those the fully transformed Eight-Tails and Two-Tails Jinchuriki?" Shisui seemed to be asking Nagato, but also seemed to be speaking to himself.
After all, this was Shisui's first time seeing Jinchuriki in a complete Tailed Beast Transformation firsthand. Those mountain-sized masses of chakra continuously radiated an ominous chakra aura, laced with an intense urge for destruction. Ordinary