Madara Beyond Control

Her cheeks burned.

Her heart was filled with anger and humiliation.

Yet she still forced her chin up, keeping her expression calm.

She could not lose control.

She could not let Lie Yang see her true purpose.

Kurenai Yuhi walked up the stairs.

Lie Yang stood at the top of the staircase, silently watching her.

There was little emotion in his gaze, yet it made her breathing falter uncontrollably for a moment.

The habits left behind by the long-term illusion affected her body once more at that moment.

She clearly wanted to remain distant, yet her footsteps unconsciously lightened.

She clearly resisted this outfit, yet deep within her, she felt a sense of relief, as though she had fulfilled some demand.

This uncontrollable reaction made Kurenai Yuhi even more furious.

She gritted her teeth and walked past Lie Yang.

Gloomy rain shrouded the Land of Rain.

Between Amegakure's towers, water continuously poured down through metal pipes.

After Hanzō's defeat and death, the Land of Rain's formerly chaotic factions had been thoroughly purged.

Ninja who refused to submit vanished.

Local armed forces were suppressed.

Every road leading to Amegakure's core territory had been taken over by the new order.

Nagato no longer appeared before ordinary people in person.

Deva Path Pain walked through Amegakure in his place.

No one had seen the god's true body.

They could only see those eyes marked by concentric rings.

They could only hear Pain announce his orders.

Distance continually deepened their awe.

Power utterly erased all resistance.

The people of Amegakure began to believe that Pain was no ordinary ninja.

He was the god who would end war and bring order to the Land of Rain.

Inside the tower.

Deva Path Pain stood before the window, watching the endless curtain of rain outside.

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