"Ever since I could remember, all I ever had was the villagers' endless indifference, hatred, fear, and curses!
The names 'monster' and 'calamity'!
An empty room, paint splashed across my home, and nights spent talking to the walls alone!"
"I never felt my parents' embrace. Before I started school, I never knew the laughter of friends. Even... someone willing to give me a kind smile was painfully rare!
For a long time, my entire world held nothing but darkness, loneliness, and endless rejection!"
His words struck like a sledgehammer against the cold stone walls of the Kamui Dimension, and seemed to strike Nagato and Obito's hearts as well.
Nagato fell silent. This guy's suffering...
Yes, where had his suffering come from?
Obito knew better than anyone.
He spoke slowly. "Then join us in creating a perfect world."
But Naruto ignored Obito.
He abruptly changed tack, his blazing gaze piercing straight into Nagato's soul:
"Nagato, you say you're suffering, that you hate this world for taking Yahiko away."
"But you have the Rinnegan. You possess the forbidden power of the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, a power capable of bringing back the dead!"
"And what did you do? You would rather turn Yahiko's corpse into a puppet and make him carry out your so-called plan to 'make the world know pain' than use that power to bring him back, truly alive and warm!"
Naruto's accusations cut like a sword:
"You keep saying it's for Yahiko's dream, for the sake of peace.
But did you ever ask whether Yahiko wanted to 'exist' like this, neither truly human nor a ghost?
Did you ever care how Konan felt as she watched Yahiko's body being manipulated, damaged again and again, and finally destroyed?"
"Is your so-called 'pain' and 'resolve' really for the