If Deidara had been here at this moment, he surely would have cried out about art.
Nothing else—when the Planetary Devastation descending like a meteor was cleaved in two by the massive Water Giant, a world-shaking explosion erupted instantly.
Rustle, rustle, rustle~
A fierce wind swept up dust that filled the sky, revealing the cratered ground devastated by the attack.
The meteor in the air had already exploded. Scattered sparks crashed to the earth like fragments of meteorites, igniting patch after patch of burning ground.
The motionless Water Giant remained still for a long time. The ice blade in its hand had broken in two, shattered ice flakes falling like icy blossoms.
"Did it work?"
Deva Path cautiously poked his head out from behind a slanted boulder. Seeing the enormous Water Giant standing motionless as though it had lost all life, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Inside the cave, Nagato raised an arm and wiped away the blood flowing from his nose and mouth. The bone-deep agony wracking his entire body made even the slightest movement an unbearable torment.
Even the Uzumaki Clan's immense vitality had nearly run dry by now.
It could be said that he would not live for another month...
Yet there was not the slightest trace of regret on Nagato's face, because all of this had been worth it.
Tobirama Senju was dead. Next, he only needed to capture every Tailed Beast and seal them within the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, revive the Ten-Tails, and use its terrifying destructive power to intimidate the entire ninja world, leaving every ninja village too terrified to wage war again.
And after his death, he would entrust all of it to Konan...
However, just as joy filled his heart—
The Water Giant, which had been standing