Besides, perhaps Nagato really could achieve a brief peace through pain. But after Nagato died, who could guarantee that his successor would not become a dictator or tyrant who stole the fruit of his labor?
There might not even be a successor, and the world would return to how it was before pain had been inflicted.
Then what would all the pain endured before, and the people who had sacrificed themselves, amount to?
"Why?!"
Deva Path Pain asked again.
Hayato found it difficult to explain in words, so he pressed a hand to his forehead. After a while, white light appeared in his palm. It was his memories. Extracting memories was not unique to the Rinnegan; the Tenseigan could do it as well, though its outward manifestation was "mind reading."
Hayato slowly pushed the cluster of memories into the Human Path.
The Human Path's mind-level ability could read another person's memories through contact with their head, and those memories could be shared with the main body and the other Six Paths puppets.
The memories contained humanity's history of war, vast and chaotic. After all, Hayato was not a professional scholar of history or social sciences. As for information about Naruto, perhaps due to some restriction on transmigrators, it could not be extracted at all.
The Human Path did not hesitate and directly absorbed the memories.
A long while passed.
Deva Path Pain said in a low voice, "I see. So this is your reason... Humanity will not stop fighting. Perhaps it will not stop even on the day of its extinction. That is why you think I am naive. Laughable. Am I wrong?"
"No!"
Hayato shook his head. "I did not come to judge whether you are right or wrong. I only came to stop you. Just as you said,