That Wasteful Woman!!!

In the early morning woods, the air was still thick with the smell of burnt metal and blood.

The giant corpses were piled up like mountains, and the ground was torn apart by lightning and fire, leaving it charred black.

Hidan down, stepping on the spine of a giant, covered in blood, but with a maniacal smile on his face.

"Hahaha! I was in amazing form today, I even wanted to kiss myself after all that cutting!"

He swung the three-edged scythe in his hand, turned to look at Kakuzu: "Hey, you old codger, have you counted how many I've killed?"

Kakuzu stood on a protruding rock, looking down at the ground with the gaze of an eagle.

"Twenty-five."

"Wow, you remember that so clearly! You weren't secretly keeping track of everything in your head, waiting to split the reward with me, were you?"

Kakuzu glanced at him. "... You're so crazy you don't even have a brain. Do you think killing these monsters will make money? I'm still wondering if their corpses are even worth recycling."

"Pfft--Hahahaha! You actually want to retrieve the giant's corpse? Your thinking is even more perverted than mine, Kakuzu."

Kakuzu answering, he silently stared at the remains of several giants, his tone indifferent. "Perhaps there's some kind of value chain between these giants and our mission."

"As long as I can get money."

"Or promote global integration."

Hidan's laughter abruptly stopped. He tilted his head slightly, a subtle hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes, but the next second he suddenly threw his head back and burst into wild laughter. "If you hadn't mentioned it, I almost forgot—Lord Yoru's 'gaze' just swept over here again."

Kakuzu: "I sensed it."

That ineffable "presence" gently brushed against my soul.

There was no command, only confirmation.

Killing giants is useful.

Continue.

--This is the way the World Lord, Uchiha Yoru, will act.

Decisive, cold, and direct.

Hidan spread his arms and looked up at the sky. "Jashin, are you satisfied with my sacrifice?"

"I even stomped on the brains of these monsters!"

He crushed the head of a giant with a single stomp, making a loud cracking sound, and then rubbed his slimy foot on the ground without a care.

Kakuzu frowned slightly. "Don't step on them, those things might still be worth some money."

Hidan rolled his eyes. "Just how damn desperate for money are you...?"

Just then, a gust of wind arose.

"--Stop!!"

A warning voice came from above.

Kakuzu and Hidan turned their heads almost at the same time.

Three figures swept through the forest—a three-man squad from the Survey Corps!

Levi, Mikasa, Hange, equipped with Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, landed precisely ten meters in front of the two.

Levi gripped the hilt of his sword, his eyes sharp as a hawk's.

Who exactly are you?

Why is it outside the wall?

"Why does it possess this... abnormal power?"

Hidan raised an eyebrow. "Hey, aren't these the three people in the audience? Why aren't you clapping?"

Hange gritted her teeth. "You've killed so many giants, why didn't you tell us who you were?!"

"You're not from the city, nor are you giants... What do you want?!"

Hidan: "I want to chop something down, and while I'm at it, offer a sacrifice to Lord Yoru—understand?"

Mikasa asked coldly, "Who is this 'Lord Night' you just mentioned?"

Hidan blinked, then suddenly grinned. "You don't need to know."

Hange retorted angrily, "If you harbor any hostility towards those inside the walls, we must stop you!"

Hidan grinned instantly, a murderous glint in his eyes. "Hate? Are you sure you want to talk like that?"

He took a sudden step forward, raised his three-edged scythe, and its cold gleam was like a venomous snake's tongue!

Kakuzu frowned slightly, his voice low:

" --Hidan, stop!"

Hidan stopped, but turned around, his eyes full of impatience. "I didn't even cut them, and they were yelling at me like that. If I don't scare them, I'm not worthy to believe in Jashin!"

Kakuzu glanced at the Survey Corps, then looked down at the ground beneath his feet, his eyes flashing coldly.

"... You've been thinking of killing me?"

Hidan scratched his head. "Hmm."

Has the world rejected you?

Hidan rolled his Byakugan: "If it weren't for the world's rejection of them, I would have cut these people into three pieces already."

Kakuzu said coldly, "Don't forget—our only target is Titans. Taking action against these 'human natives' will provoke a global backlash."

"These are the rules."

Hidan grimaced, but then sheathed his scythe.

"Alright, alright, let them go this time. They look pitifully weak anyway."

Mikasa: "..."

Levi: "..."

Hange: "..."

To the three's surprise, their opponent, who had been so aggressive, suddenly stopped attacking due to some "unknown force."

They didn't understand, but their instincts told them: this wasn't mercy, but rather a "limitation" imposed on this world by some higher-dimensional being.

Kakuzu calmly said, "We are not 'people' that you can understand."

"Don't even think about controlling us."

Levi frowned. "You're just here to kill Titans?"

Hidan laughed smugly, "Not only that, I'm here to settle the world's distorted debts."

"Your gods can't control these things."

"So we came to help chop it down."

Hange whispered, "You really... aren't hostile towards us?"

Kakuzu said calmly, "We only deal with the Titans."

"Unless you become giants."

Mikasa said coldly, "We'll be keeping an eye on you."

"Um?"

Hidan Earth Flow a grin, then suddenly held out his hand. "Then try staring at me and see what happens~"

Levi suddenly drew his sword.

Kakuzu pressed a palm down on Hidan's head. "Your brain's broken again."

"After we finish dealing with this batch, we'll head southeast; there's still a reaction there."

Hidan regretfully withdrew his hand, raising an eyebrow at Levi: "Don't peek at me fighting monsters next time, or you'll have to pay!"

Kakuzu nodded as he walked, muttering to himself, "That's how it should be!"

Having said that, the two turned around and, without lingering for a fight, dashed into the forest without looking back.

Only the silent Survey Corps members remained.

Mikasa frowned. "They don't explain, and they don't communicate."

Hange murmured, "But they did only kill the Titans."

"We saw it with our own eyes."

Armin arrived, gazing at the distant sea of blood and mountains of corpses, and said in a low voice:

"Their existence... seems not to be for destruction, but for some kind of reconstruction?"

Eren stared at their departing figures, his expression complex.

"They came too suddenly."

"But... the progenitor within me... also reacted violently to them."

Levi sheathed his sword and said coldly:

"They are not the enemy."

"They're not friends!"

On the other side...

Hidan across walls and rooftops, laughing wildly as a blood array formed, continuing to cleanse the giants.

"Jashin —here I go again!"

Kakuzu silently calculated the location of the corpses and map markers, muttering to himself:

"It's a pity that this world doesn't have a bounty system."

"Otherwise, if these giants were converted according to their strength level, they would be worth at least 100,000 taels of silver."

Hidan laughed loudly, "I'm starting to wonder, what did you do before you Akatsuki?"

Kakuzu: "You don't need to worry about that. You just need to know that I have extensive experience in asset management!"

Hidan: "... You are a disgrace to humanity."

Kakuzu: "You're not human."

"I've heard that the organization's White Tiger originally prepared a hundred billion Explosive Tag to deal with that dead Uchiha Obito..."

"What?! Baka Yalu!!!"

"That spendthrift woman!!!"

The two argued and bickered, yet like two butcher knives in the darkness, they continued to pave the way in this distorted world.