Though Deva Path Pain was merely a puppet, blood now streamed from his chest like a small brook.
"Splash, splash, splash..."
Deva Path opened his mouth as if to say something, but with his bodily functions completely destroyed, only a hoarse rasp came from his throat.
When Tobirama Senju pulled his hand blade from Deva Path's chest, the latter was already swaying and unable to remain standing.
The Chakra Black Receivers densely embedded in his body scattered across the ground with sharp clangs.
"Why... are you... here?"
The inexplicable words, spoken by either Nagato or Pain, reached Tobirama's ears.
After stumbling, Deva Path Pain fell to the ground with a thud and made no further sound.
The Chakra dragon that had been howling beneath the water dragon's jaws in midair dissipated along with him.
The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path also vanished in a cloud of smoke after letting out an unwilling roar.
Thinking of something, Tobirama Senju hurriedly picked up a broken Black Receiver from the ground and stabbed it into his palm, sensing for the source of the Chakra.
Sure enough, the Black Receiver that served as the Chakra receiver between Nagato and Pain had no fluctuations whatsoever. Tobirama Senju could not sense even a trace of Chakra.
"This really is..." Tobirama Senju's lips twitched slightly as his brows furrowed deeply.
Nagato was dead!
Even if he had drained his own life force to unleash Shinra Tensei and Planetary Devastation in one go, he should not have died from that.
In the original story, Nagato had even retained enough strength to revive everyone in Konoha after doing all that, yet now he had died without a word.
When Tobirama had previously returned to Konoha to bring Hashirama along, he had learned that Obito had attacked Konoha, leaving