"The show's about to begin. I wonder if those so-called Six Paths of Pain can stand up to my fists?"
Shengu Xuan stood atop an extremely tall steel pipe on the outskirts of Amegakure. Cold rain poured from the gray sky like a dense barrage of arrows, but the Water Demon Chi automatically pushed it aside half a meter from his body, leaving even the hem of his clothes dry. With both hands in his pockets, Shengu Xuan looked down over the steel city, perpetually shrouded in rain and exuding an intensely oppressive atmosphere.
Inside Amegakure, the tension had already reached its breaking point.
Using the Toad Flat Shadow Manipulation Technique, Jiraiya had successfully infiltrated Amegakure. He captured two patrolling Rain Ninja and, through extremely harsh interrogation, learned that Amegakure was now ruled by a man called "God," whose emissary was a woman called the "Angel."
Jiraiya followed the clues and eventually encountered that so-called "Angel" inside a massive steel tower. When he saw her face clearly, he felt as though he had been struck by lightning. The woman controlling countless sharp sheets of paper, with a pair of enormous paper wings on her back, was actually Konan-one of the three orphans he had taken in back in the Land of Rain!
"Konan... it really is you. Then that fellow they call 'God' must be Nagato or Yahiko?" Jiraiya's expression was extremely grim. He rapidly formed hand seals and spat out a great mouthful of toad oil, combining it with Fire Release to create an intensely scorching Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet, driving back all of Konan's Paper Release attacks.
Just as Jiraiya was about to question her further, an utterly cold chakra, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, suddenly descended inside the tower.
"Summoning Technique!"
With a low, cold