MSIN: Chapter 232
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The night was silent.
Haori picked up the head with brown hair and tossed it gently into the air. Then, he grabbed the black rod stuck in his right shoulder with his left hand and smoothly pulled it out.
Then, he stabbed it back.
One hand was always inconvenient, but the black rod still pierced through the center of the Rinnegan pupil on Yahiko's left cheek.
Haori continued to push forward with his left hand. The black rod moved forward inch by inch.
Blood flowed from between his palms, then the black rod pierced through the other side's skull, nailing the head to the tree trunk.
"Ninjas always lie… This is my final attack."
Then, he pulled out the black rods from his body one by one, then threw down the weight on his back. He didn't look back at this place again. He turned and walked back towards Konoha, step by step.
His feet stepped on the pile of corpses. The electricity he carried instantly caused the flesh and bones to disintegrate… This wasn't because he had forcefully activated his ability again. From the very beginning, his ability had never been able to stop.
From beginning to end, his head was like an old monitor that had been hit by a baseball bat, constantly flashing with electric arcs.
He didn't know if Nagato cared about this corpse. His actions weren't related to that. He was just making this corpse disappear without leaving a trace.
Like the other Pains.
After Haori walked dozens of meters, the black rod nailed to the tree began to flash with lightning. Then, the head exploded like a rotten watermelon.
"You… really got in my way."
All this time, Haori had thought that hatred was a superficial emotion. But now, he knew that hatred was hatred. It had nothing to do with position, motivation, or good or evil.
If you could kill a person 101 times, you wouldn't kill them 100 times. If you could make someone die 1001 times, it wouldn't be 1000 times.
Even if the price was one arm, even if the price was one heart, even if the price was one head.
Even if the price was the disintegration of every inch of skin, even if the price was the shattering of every bone, even if the price was the annihilation of every inch of soul.
Haori… had never been so vicious.
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A high point near the barrier.
"Nagato, Yahiko's corpse…"
To control Pain's actions and ensure the safety of his true body, Nagato needed special tools to transmit chakra over long distances. So, because of these tools, he looked like something that was neither human nor ghost.
Yahiko's corpse? Of course, it was gone. Even the power of the Rinnegan, even the Naraka Path with its restorative abilities, couldn't create something out of nothing.
"The enemy is at the end of his rope. Should I go give him the final blow?"
Seeing that Nagato didn't speak, Konan asked again.
"No… Those eyes are too dangerous. Don't get close to him until we figure out what's going on."
Nagato could clearly feel the tearing sensation of the Deva Path.
"Just in case, we need to leave this place as soon as possible. The other side has already sensed our location… In any case, the other side should have succeeded."
Nagato's condition was also very bad. Resisting the super-large electromagnetic railgun had taken a huge toll on him. In this situation, their location had also been discovered. To be safe, they had to leave as soon as possible.
"Can we still activate the setup we made beforehand?"
"Although a large part of it was destroyed, it should be fine." Konan replied.
Just in case, Konan had set up a large number of detonating tags around Nagato's barrier. The super-large electromagnetic railgun destroyed some of them, but others still remained.
So, almost as soon as Konan finished speaking, with a loud roar, red flames illuminated the entire night sky.
Haori was naturally in the middle of the flames.
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The masked man was also heavily injured, and his plan to steal the Nine-Tails had failed… His battle with the Fourth Hokage had given him a feeling of complete tactical and intellectual suppression.
But when he saw the person walking towards him step by step… until the other side was right in front of him, he confirmed his identity.
That's why he felt unbelievable, but then he calmed down.
"Humans are truly pathetic creatures. The more something isn't theirs, the more they want it. The more something is out of reach, the more they want to reach for it."
"They're more distant and disgusted than anyone else, yet they're more envious and longing than anyone else."
"Their very existence is a redundancy and a tragedy, yet they still struggle. Is that so-called perseverance? No, it's just stupidity."
"They have no talent, no strength, no knowledge, and no idea of the future. They want to play a role, but they can't play any role…"
"Do you know what people like that are called?"
"They're just a nuisance."
The masked man wasn't wrong. Stupidity is one of the fundamental aspects of humanity. It's an attribute rooted in everyone. As long as there is a process of birth and death, there has never been a human being who has been smart and mistake-free their entire life. If there really were such a person, then they would be the true "god."
"So, you're really going to die here."
For the masked man, it was still unbelievable that Haori was still alive. The situation on the other side was unclear. It was hard to imagine Nagato failing. After all, there were all sorts of preparations beforehand. It was a deliberate attack against an unsuspecting target…
It's true that Haori was strong. If he wasn't strong, he wouldn't have tried to lure him away from Kushina's side. But "strong" is always a relative concept. No matter how strong someone is, they couldn't be the opponent of those eyes.
But Haori was indeed still alive. This was an undeniable fact. Because he was walking towards them, step by step, straight ahead.
Haori didn't have time to discuss what humanity was.
He didn't want to speculate about things, and he didn't want to make negative assumptions. But facts are undeniable.
It's said that humans are born with the Seven Deadly Sins.
Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Pride, Lust, Wrath.
For Haori, he was prone to sloth, but he had never been angry. Because there were too many things he didn't care about. There was nothing in reality that was worth getting angry about.
He had never been angry, so until today, he didn't know that he could be so angry.
He was like a volcano, holding back thousands of molten rocks, about to erupt. He was more than angry. He was furious.
The masked man was heavily injured, and Haori was near death. It was almost inevitable that the former would kill the latter here. And even if the latter was angry, if he wanted to kill the former, there were only three words waiting for him:
Impossible.
The masked man was waiting for Haori to come over. And Haori would naturally walk over, because that was the direction he needed to go.
But the masked man wasn't his goal. He wasn't even part of the process… Haori treated the enemy in front of him as nothing. He only had one chilling sentence to say:
"Get out of the way, if you don't want to die."
A ninja's combat strength is linked to their state, but it's not inevitable. Some people are most dangerous when they only have a single breath left.
Haori only had half of his right face left, but now his eyes seemed to have an irresistible force that could destroy everything. It was as if they were constantly spreading the death-dealing window of the spirit world.
So… Haori could see the masked man's death. The masked man could see that Haori could see his death.
So, the attack he was about to launch completely stopped.
Haori walked straight through his body.
Maybe Haori had completely lost the ability to fight. Maybe what Haori said was just a simple deterrent. But maybe he could really deliver a final blow.
There were three possibilities, but there was only one choice. So, the masked man couldn't move. Because there were only three things that Haori could do, and would do.
After passing the enemy in front of him, Haori didn't look back.
What was his name again?
The masked man?
Tobi?
Uchiha Madara?
Or Uchiha something?
It didn't matter.
For Haori now, the mental burden from overusing his super-ability, and the mental pressure from using his super-ability, had caused his thinking to become chaotic. Maybe he didn't even have a concept of time anymore.
But he could still walk forward.
No matter the time, no matter the distance, he finally reached his destination.
The barrier here wasn't the one set up outside Kushina's delivery room. Although they were both near Konoha, the overall location was different.
This barrier… it was easy to tell from its characteristics that Minato had set it up.
Facing the obstacle in front of him, Haori extended his left hand.
At the same time, lightning reappeared on his left hand. And the hand, with lightning, instantly cut a gap in the barrier, allowing him to enter.
The Electric Shock user's ability was still going berserk. The "inertia" caused by the overuse of the computational formulas was still operating in his subconscious, so the ability was still activating non-stop. But Haori couldn't completely control this ability now. Otherwise, it wouldn't be going berserk.
This was a feeling of clumsiness that the Electric Shock user had never experienced before.
So, when the thought of "cutting something" appeared in his mind, Haori unconsciously used Lightning Release.
Electric Shock user and Lightning Release… For Haori, this was an unprecedented combination of two power systems, two hearts beating as one. But he wasn't aware of it.
Haori's steps paused slightly. Was he hesitating? Then, he resolutely continued forward.
After the barrier, there was the result, and also the end.
No matter what, whether he could bear it or not, Haori needed to bear it.
Everyone has times when they want to escape. Everyone has times when they can't escape. Maybe Haori could still do something. Maybe he couldn't do anything anymore.
But he had to go now.
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