Becoming a god could wait. First, he needed to expand the Akatsuki and gain more sources of faith.
Pain had not directly absorbed the divine spark of faith into his body.
So he did not know what the power of faith supplied by the organization's members was for.
"I wonder... hmm?"
Through one of his clones, Pain noticed the incident on the street, where the courtyard had been breached.
"Is the United States military really that bold?"
Pain's brows drew together tightly, anger buried deep in his eyes.
"Ring-"
A deafening alarm rang out across the territory under the Akatsuki's control.
Everyone who had joined the Akatsuki or acknowledged its authority...
...looked up at the sky in unison.
They saw plane after plane circling overhead.
The roar of their engines and the shadows sweeping across the sky were clearly disrupting people's work and daily lives.
"Why are there planes up there?"
"Is there a drill today?"
"No way. Our organization doesn't even have planes, does it? What would we use for a drill?"
"Don't tell me..."
Many people seemed to have guessed what was happening.
They hurriedly fled in a blind panic.
Their greatest relief was that the planes seemed to have come only to make a show of force.
Then...
Bang-bang-bang-
Thick smoke. Explosions.
A massive display of "fireworks" erupted in the sky.
And another figure stood in the sky. It was Pain!
New York.
Nick Fury was bogged down in tedious affairs.
Because something had gone wrong yet again.
The United States had already taken over the situation in Cherry Blossom Country.
It was none of Nick Fury's business, and they had not let him know much about it.
Naturally, Nick Fury would not waste his time and energy on that sort of trouble.
When he approached