"Whoosh!!" Hanzo clutched his spurting severed arm and staggered backward!
"Y-you are...!!!"
Staring at the imposing figure emerging from the lightning, Hanzo's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints!
Across the ninja world, he was one of the very few beings Hanzo believed he had no way of dealing with aside from Salamander Ibuse's poison!
—The Third Raikage, A!
"Y-you even...!" Hanzo's voice trembled uncontrollably. "You deliberately waited until I used the salamander before summoning him...!"
"Hanzo, at this point... you noticed far too late."
A cold voice sounded behind him. Hanzo turned around in shock, only to see... Kakupai, who should have been dead, standing once more... The beheaded Human Path stepped out of the King of Hell!!
"That's impossible! I pierced your heart with my Rain Spear! You can't possibly still be alive!!"
Kakupai said faintly, "But I don't have just one heart..."
Hanzo, you were far too cautious. That was your strength for staying alive, but also your weakness that would get you killed. If you hadn't been so wary back then and had rushed in to cut off my head with your sickle, I couldn't have stood back up. You might not have been injured either.
If you had been uninjured, even if Pain Rin summoned Pain A, they still couldn't have stopped you if you wanted to flee. But it was all too late!
"Plop!"
From the hollow in Kakupai's body, the black-threaded monster with the blue mask fell out...
Hanzo... went completely numb!
"What... kind of joke is this?"
Even at full strength, he would not have dared claim victory against this group of monsters. Much less now, when Salamander Ibuse's poison mist had not yet cooled down, one of his arms was gone, and he was bleeding continuously!
As a mere man of flesh and