"Hidan! Stand down!" Nagato shouted as he watched Hidan charge toward Hatake Ziyan.
But Hidan was already too worked up to listen to anyone!
"Hahaha!"
Laughing wildly, Hidan hurled his scythe at Hatake Ziyan!
"Shinra Tensei!"
Deva Path Pain immediately launched an attack at the rapidly approaching Hidan!
Bang!
Hidan and the scythe he had thrown were both repelled!
"Huh?" Apart from Kakuzu, everyone looked puzzled. Why was their leader protecting an outsider?
"Whew!" Kakuzu let out a sigh of relief when he saw Pain intervene!
"Thank goodness the leader stepped in! Otherwise, we'd be attending a funeral feast today!" Kakuzu said.
"Kakuzu! Just who is this guy?" Deidara asked again.
"Have you heard of the Three Great Heroes of the Warring States?" Kakuzu asked.
"Yeah! I know them! Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and that Hatake Ziyan guy, right?" Shark Face said from the side.
"That's right! I once witnessed those three fighting from a distance. Hatake Ziyan was overwhelming both Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha at once! And the man standing before us is the Blood-Colored Swordsman of the Three Great Heroes of the Warring States-Hatake Ziyan!" Kakuzu said, his eyes filled with fear.
"What?" Now they were all stunned, their gazes turning toward that perfectly ordinary-looking man.
This young man was Hatake Ziyan? One of the Three Great Heroes of the Warring States? If he'd lived until now, wouldn't he be ninety or a hundred? How did he still look so young?
And it wasn't merely his appearance. He radiated the vitality of a young man!
Are you sure you're not joking? Someone almost a hundred years old looked like he was twenty?
Kakuzu, you could keep yourself from dying by replacing your hearts with Earth Grudge Fear, but even that couldn't keep you young forever!
Hidan could