My Pain Is Greater Than Yours!!!

Susanoo's colossal figure still stood at the center of the battlefield, its body wreathed in surging purple flames. It was like a god had descended, crushing every obstacle in its path with ease.

A deathly silence hung over the battlefield. Only the searing purple flames silently devoured everything.

The Preta Path and Asura Path were like mayflies, destroyed in an instant beneath Susanoo's blade.

Uchiha Yoru's cold aura enveloped the entire battlefield, sending chills down everyone's spine.

Nagato stood in the distance. He took a deep breath and lifted his head, his gaze piercing through the billowing smoke to survey the devastated scene before him.

This world, once filled with hope, had now been torn apart by war and fire.

He felt no anger, only profound exhaustion and an unspeakable anguish.

"Unifying the Ninja World sounds like a dream worth striving for." His voice was low and calm, yet concealed an endless weariness, as if all hope had faded into nothing.

"But even if the Ninja World were united, if people had never known pain, how could they cherish this hard-won peace?" he said slowly, his voice rising with a long-suppressed resolve and determination. "Without immense suffering, humanity can never truly reflect, and conflict can never be put to rest!"

He stared straight ahead, seemingly having made his final decision. "Therefore, war will come sooner or later, and the Ninja World will once again be torn apart!"

This was not pessimism, but the truth he believed in—a conviction buried in the deepest part of his heart.

Peace was only an illusory dream. True Awakening could come only after endless suffering.

Seeing this, Konan seemed to understand. She rushed toward Nagato in a panic, trying to stop what was happening.

She grabbed Nagato's arm tightly, despair and terror shining in her eyes.

She knew Nagato could no longer withstand the immense chakra drain, yet he stubbornly pressed on with his convictions, heading toward the brink of destruction.

"Nagato!! Don't!! You'll die!!!" Her voice was almost a scream, filled with unbearable grief and pleading.

Nagato didn't turn around. His gaze remained fixed ahead, looking through the continually shattering void toward his distant goal.

He seemed to have reached a point of absolute resolve, as if no amount of pain or struggle could shake his conviction anymore.

"Humanity can only truly awaken when faced with pain." His voice grew hollow and distant, as though he were speaking to himself. "This is what they truly need—not the illusion of peace, but pain they can endure."

He closed his eyes and let everything around him blur, as if nothing else mattered anymore. Only that weighty conviction remained.

Konan's face twisted with pain. Then she beat her wings and quickly fled beyond the core area.

She knew that no matter how hard she tried to stop him, she couldn't change the decision Nagato had already made.

After Konan left the core area, Nagato's gaze sharpened. Deva Path Pain abruptly clasped his hands together, and black chakra surged out, engulfing everything around him.

The sky seemed to grow even more oppressive, and a heavy atmosphere filled the entire battlefield.

"Those who don't understand pain can never understand true peace!!!"

Deva Path Pain raised his hand and roared, "Planetary Devastation!!!"

His voice echoed like thunder through a stormy night, deafening and filled with an aura of world-ending power.

A black sphere rose from Deva Path Pain's palm and floated into the sky, then began to exert a powerful gravitational pull.

Creak, creak—

The rubble and buildings on the ground began to shift, drawn up into the sky by the immense force.

The power was like a giant black hole, devouring everything. Whether building debris or civilians caught in the area, none could resist the pull. They were dragged into the air and gathered into a dark sphere.

Blood ran from Nagato's nose as he gasped for breath. His eyes remained fixed on the black sphere, while the scene in the sky grew ever more tense. The pressure in the air was almost suffocating.

Just then, a cold sneer broke the silence.

"Planetary Devastation?" Uchiha Yoru's voice swept across the battlefield like a chill wind, dripping with scorn. "Heh."

Then his voice grew more impassioned, carrying an overwhelming force. "Nagato—my pain is greater than yours!!!"

The deafening declaration seemed to make the very air around them freeze.

Nagato froze.

Uchiha Yoru's Susanoo suddenly took flight.

Its colossal figure spun through the air, purple flames surging like a raging tide. A powerful repulsive force burst from its blade, reaching straight for the sky.

In that instant, the tension on the battlefield mounted. The surrounding space seemed to buckle beneath the crushing pressure.

Susanoo's blade seemed to defy the laws of physics. Brimming with immense power and repulsive force, it carved a terrifying path through the air and struck the Planetary Devastation Nagato had summoned.

A deafening collision rang out, as if heaven and earth themselves trembled at the clash.

The two repulsive forces collided violently in midair. The air seemed to tear apart, rippling in waves.

Under Uchiha Yoru's control, the force reached its limit and completely shattered the core of the Planetary Devastation Nagato had been so proud of.

Boom—boom—boom!!!

A string of explosions thundered across the battlefield. Flames and shock waves surged outward, light and darkness intertwining in an instant as if the apocalypse had arrived.

Nagato's eyes widened as he stared dumbfounded at the violent spectacle in the sky.

He couldn't believe his Planetary Devastation had been torn apart so easily by Uchiha Yoru's repulsive force.

The core of Planetary Devastation began to fracture and destabilize. The black sphere rapidly disintegrated in midair, forming a massive vortex of explosions.

The immense gravitational pull that had blanketed the battlefield vanished in an instant. Rubble, fragments, and even some people were hurled in every direction by the tremendous impact, plunging the battlefield into chaos.

Uchiha Yoru's Susanoo, however, was completely unharmed. Its blade remained raised high, wreathed in purple flames, as if he had become the sole master of the battlefield.

A flicker of disbelief crossed Nagato's eyes, but his calm resolve soon returned, and his heart grew even heavier.

"No... That's impossible..." Nagato murmured, a complicated light flickering in his eyes.

The Giant Susanoo slowly descended. Uchiha Yoru stepped out of it, his expression cold.

"Nagato, your pain can't compare to mine." Uchiha Yoru's voice was low and oppressive. "True power is the key to controlling everything. The peace you speak of is nothing but an illusion."

Before his words had even faded, the core of Planetary Devastation shattered completely, and a brilliant explosion engulfed the entire sky.