"There's only one left, but it'll just about do."
Hiruko licked his lips, then darted straight toward the two figures in the sky!
"Swift Release!"
He moved with incredible speed, reaching Konan in the blink of an eye and viciously thrusting his Steel Release right hand toward Nagato's left eye!
"Steel Release: Piercing Gold Claw!"
Konan's expression changed. Her paper wings twisted sharply as she tried to dodge, but carrying Nagato left her half a beat too slow-
"Hmph."
Nagato snorted, and the Rinnegan in his only remaining eye, his left, suddenly spun!
"Shinra Tensei!"
Boom-!!!
A terrifying repulsive force erupted. Hiruko screamed as he was hurled backward, smashing through more than a dozen large trees before slamming into the mountainside yet again!
"Cough, cough... urgh!"
Hiruko lay amid the rubble, coughing up mouthfuls of blood. He had no idea how many bones in his chest had broken, and his eyes were filled with horror.
How was this possible?!
Nagato was clearly gravely wounded and on the verge of death. How did he still have so much power?!
And Genbu had clearly handled him with ease just now...
"Did you really think... just anyone could come and shake me down?"
Nagato looked down at him coldly, his hoarse voice carrying a bone-chilling coldness. "Even with only one eye, killing you... is still well within my power."
Hiruko shuddered.
He saw undisguised killing intent in Nagato's eye!
"W-wait... I was wrong! I'll leave right now!"
Hiruko frantically begged for mercy, struggling to get up and flee, but Nagato gave him no chance.
The Rinnegan in his left eye spun again-
"Banshō Ten'in."
Hiruko's body flew uncontrollably into the air, dragged relentlessly toward Nagato by an invisible pull!
"No-!!!"
Hiruko screamed in terror, desperately activating Dark Release to absorb chakra, but Banshō