Chapter – 355 Life Hanging on a Thread

Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud…

""""Huff... huff…"""" – everyone heavily gasped for breath as they laid on the ground exhausted,

The current state of Jiraiya as well as the two toads is not so good, even Shisui's Susanoo disappeared…

Looking around, neither of them could find Killer Bee among them meaning that Killer Bee couldn't escape and was thus sealed inside it.

Even Uchiha Shisui doesn't seem to be in the condition to be able to fight as he is more than likely to have exhausted a lot of his Chakra to destroy that Planetary Orb.

Jiraiya realizes that if Tendo Pain, standing in front of him uses the same ability again, then no one will be able to save them, at the same time, he also realizes that among the people present inside Amegakure, nobody other than him can defeat Pain… Therefore, he did not wait any longer and immediately said to the two sage toads, "Boss, ma'am… let's start!"

Both Fukasaku and Shima nodded with a solemn expression and jumped on Jiraiya's shoulder, to help him gather Natural energy and to brew Senjutsu Chakra.

Both Fukasaku and Shima have a long life and many battles through it, and the Pain fellow standing before them is undoubtedly one of the strong and most unusual shinobi they have ever seen, not to mention he is the bearer of the Rinnegan, and just to make the matters worse, there are four of these Pains fellow, each with a pair of Rinnegan.

In Jiraiy's cognition, since the establishment of the Shinobi Village system, and after the death of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, Pain is the strongest Shinobi to have appeared.

In the face of someone so strong and weird, they knew that even a little bit of carelessness could cost them their lives.

Jiraiya clasped his hands together to enter the Sennin Mode.

Jiraiya has to stand still while the two toads gather the Natural Energy in cooperation.

Tendo Pain obviously doesn't plan to waste his time here as he has to also get rid of other rats, and said indifferently to Jiraiya, "Jiraiya-sensei, it's futile to resist… you cannot change anything, you cannot defeat a God."

Jiraiya shouted, "Yahiko… this is not you… did you not want to change this country? Did you not want to bring peace to this world? What has happened to the three of you?"

Tendo Pain said indifferently, "It's not your fault that you are unable to see it, I am doing just that Sensei…"

"No Yahiko… you are wrong, what you are doing is wrong! Was destroying the Land of Demons peace? What you are doing is not bringing peace…!" – Jiraiya retorted.

"Wrong?" – with a cold snort, Tendo Pain said, "From here on, what's right and what's wrong will be defined by me!"

Jiraiya said with bitter sadness, "Don't get lost in power Yahiko…"

At this moment Konan's words reached them, "Lost in power? You of the great shinobi villages have always been lost in power… you people do not put anyone before your eyes. Now that people who are stronger than the great shinobi villages have appeared, you are asking us to not get lost in power? That's funny Jiraiya-sensei… are we not even allowed to protect ourselves? Are we not allowed to pursue our dreams and goals? Should we just accept the fate that you people of great shinobi villages bind us to?"

Jiraiya looked up at Konan and said sadly, "But what you are doing is starting a war… people are dying…"

Tendo Pain shook his head and said, "No Jiraiya-sensei, we are just reestablishing the order of the Shinobi World… look at everything around you… are we the ones who started this war? Are we the ones who are invading others' homes? Are we the ones ravaging others' villages? You people of great shinobi villages invade others' homes and now you speak to us to not start a war?"

"Why the Akatsuki? Why gather such dangerous nuke-nins? Why incite a civil war within a village? Konan, Yahiko you have to stop all this! You, people, are children who have experienced war, you understand the destruction war brings and the pain it causes to people… it takes generations to be able to forget that pain… do you want to see more orphans appear in the accursed world?" – Jiraiya question.

Konan had a momentary sad expression, but there was not even a trace of hesitation in her eyes.

The foolish ideals of bringing peace to the world with words and understanding died along with Yahiko… now all that's left is pain… the same pain that will bring peace to the world.

"It is because I understand the pain that I know that it is only through pain that people can understand each other… When enough people die, those who remain will be left with the pain of losing… this pain will bring make them naturally avert war…" – Tendo said.

Seeing that Konan and Yahiko could not be persuaded at all, Jiraiya was helpless and asked, "Where is Nagato? Is he alive? And why do you have his Rinnegan? Initially, I believed that the first one I saw was Nagato, but he is not… where is Nagato? And how come there are so many Rinnegan bearers?"

"Nagato… Yahiko… Konan… everyone died a long time ago… now all that's left is Pain!" – Pain said.

In their heart, they are nothing more than ghosts of the past, their sole purpose of existence is to make Yahiko's dream come true.

Jiraiya sighed, "Could you please just stop with the world play…"

"Yes… It is time I kill you and be done with it." – speaking so, he slowly landed on the same street as Jiraiya and started walking towards him.

Tendo Pain with his Rinnegan can see the changes happening in Jiraiya and understands that it would be pointless to wait any longer… There are probably more battles to come, so he does not want to waste any more time talking with Jiraiya.

With this intention, he raised his hands and shouted, "Bansho Ten'in!"

And suddenly a strong force started to act on Jiraiya making him fly towards Tendo Pain.

However, Jiraiya was prepared this time, and he immediately shouted, "Ranjishigami no Jutsu!"

In an instant, Jiraiya's hair grew, split into several strands, and was firmly nailed on the ground, stopping his body from flying towards Tendo Pain.

Seeing that his attack failed to bring Jiraiya towards him, Tendo Pain shook his hand, and two black rods slid down through his sleeves and were caught in his hand.

Holding these black sticks Tendo Pain slowly walked towards Jiraiya, at the same time… one after another… several silhouettes fell from the sky surrounding Jiraiya at the center.

Jiraiya looked at the faces of these silhouettes and his face changed drastically.

'These five are…' – A total of five people fell from the sky and counting Tendo Pain approaching him, there were a total of six people… and each of them had the same ripple pattern eye, each of them had a Rinnegan pair.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

With the sound of breaking wind, all six-pain rushed towards Jiraiya with Black Rods in their hands.

A battle between Jiraiya and Pain Rikudo broke out… This was undoubtedly the most overwhelming battle he had ever fought… within just a few breaths he was knocked out.

Whether it was 'Choodama Rasengan', 'Senpo: Goemon', or some other techniques, none of them worked, the ninjutsu were all absorbed by one of them, while Taijutsu battle against six at the same time was proving to be extremely difficult even for Jiraiya in the Sennin Mode as all of them can share each other's vision.

In just a few short minutes, Jiraiya was kicked heavily and flew out.

Shisui wanted to help but was unable to do so as a constant rain of explosive tags kept coming at him.

Looking at Jiraiya with disdain, Pain said, "Jiraiya-sensei, you cannot defeat me… I am God!"

Boom…

At this moment, Kakashi and Guy rushed out of the smoke, and behind them several multiheaded dogs. NO matter what they did, there was simply no method to kill the dog, although they did manage to resolve the other Kuchiyose, that wasn't the case with this dog.

Pain turned to glance at Kakashi and Guy who were running from the multiheaded dogs and said lightly, "Ah… the other rats are also here, although I am wondering where the last member of your team, that is Hyuga Kuroto, has gone, but anyway… I will first get rid of all of you at once then go after him, I really have some questions for him that I would like to get answers to."

Even if they have realized that the visions of Pain Rikudo are connected, neither of them could pose a resistance… Might Guy after opening Hachimon Tonkou posed some resistance, but it wasn't strong enough to subdue Pain Rikudo.

Seeing that none could defeat Pain Rikudo, Jiraiya felt guilty, 'He was responsible for guiding the child… and he failed…"

Each Pain stretched out a Black Rod, pointing at the heads of several shinobi, and said, "It's over for all of you…"

And with that, he brought down his hands…

Everyone closed their eyes, as they all knew that without a doubt, they will all die, and accepted their fate, accepting their death…

A second passed, another second passed, and more and one more, but the expected pain did not come… the expected death did not come…

Confused they opened their eyes and checked the situation, only to notice that all six Pain have fallen to the ground and inexplicably lost consciousness at the same moment.

Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud…

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