But why did these two before him also have the Rinnegan? It made no sense at all!
Had these legendary eyes of a god suddenly become cheap street-stall goods that anyone could grow a pair of?
"Who... exactly are you?"
Who?
Hearing that question, Nagato, who was controlling the corpses from afar, curled his lips into a mocking smile.
"I... am... the god who will bring true peace to this rotten world!"
At that very same moment, deep in the dense forest far away in Kumogakure.
The Two-Tails Jinchūriki, Yugito, was running for her life through the trees, her face filled with terror.
But no matter how fast she fled, the surrounding woods seemed to come alive. Thick Wood Release vines shot out one after another, doggedly pursuing her like maggots clinging to bone.
Her opponent clearly had no intention of letting her leave alive.
"Wood Release! How could this possibly be Wood Release!"
Yugito frantically screamed inwardly as she swung her claws, slicing through the vines.
How had this legendary power, which had once brought an end to an age of war, suddenly reappeared in the world?
Moreover, this bizarre Wood Release naturally countered tailed beast chakra. Its formidable suppressive power made Yugito feel the strength inside her rapidly draining away.
Once those vines ensnared her, she would lose all ability to resist.
"Who is it? Which bastard is ambushing me from the shadows?"
Yugito had already been pushed to the brink of a breakdown.
She had been fighting all this time without catching so much as a glimpse of her enemy. She did not even know who was attacking her.
Damn it!
"Hahaha! What a pitiful little kitty. Is this the power of a tailed beast? Isn't it a little too weak?"
"You can't even block attacks of