"Fantastic! Pain's been taken down!"
"The secretary-general protected the whole world from Pain's clutches! Sob, sob... thank goodness..."
Although Pain had dragged the satellites above the battlefield down with a single Banshō Ten'in, and the deployed drone swarms and helicopters had been swept from the sky in droves by the Tailed Beast Bomb's shock waves, the committee formed by the world's nations still spared no expense to shift every available satellite into a new orbit, while drones flew toward the battlefield one after another.
Even if they could not intervene in a battle between Beyond Kage Level fighters, they at least had to maintain their information feeds and visibility, to know what was happening on the rapidly changing battlefield.
As they watched Uchiha Senmon defeat Pain, thunderous cheers erupted simultaneously in the committee's operations rooms across the world.
The miracle of Planetary Devastation had simply been too overwhelming. Even the asteroid that had wiped out the dinosaurs had been no more impressive.
Having witnessed Sasuke being sealed inside Planetary Devastation, everyone had already sunk into despair. Who could have imagined that, in just the next few minutes, events would take one dramatic turn after another? Not only had the Nine-Tails Demon Fox defeated the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Pain had also met his end at Uchiha Senmon's hands.
"Long live Secretary-General Uchiha!"
"The apocalypse is over! We can all live! I've made up my mind-I'm going to propose to Rita right away!"
"Aaaaah!"
Some screamed hysterically with joy; some knelt with tears streaming down their faces, prostrating themselves and praying to the gods they believed in; others were so excited that they fainted, collapsing the moment their taut nerves relaxed...
All the fear, helplessness, despair, and pressure that had accumulated earlier burst forth at that moment, and