Kirigakure.
The Three-Tails' massive body was sliced in half like matcha pudding.
Kirigakure ninjas and spies from other villages, hiding nearby, quickly dodged, their eyes filled with shock.
Dead!
Land of Water·Fourth Mizukage·Perfect Jinchuriki·Creator of the Bloody Mist Village...
Karatachi Yagura, dead!
Not an ambush, not a sudden attack, and as for a group fight... Yagura, Pain, and the masked man, three against Linto alone.
Not only did they fail, but he was cut in two with a single blow, directly killed, wasn't this really... really...
No different from a turtle killed in the kitchen with one chop?!
Thinking back to the Tailed Beast Ball that disappeared out of nowhere, Fire Release, Ninjutsu missiles...
The audience quietly swallowed their saliva.
The mist of Kirigakure was dispelled by Linto's slash, but why... could they see less and less, and understand less and less?
Boom—
The body formed by the Three-Tails Isobu's Chakra gradually dissipated, dust still filled the air, but not a trace could float near Linto. The "Qi" of nature and ripple fusion connected Linto to the world.
At this moment, Linto could feel the world breathing.
Qi was like a record player that recorded everything. Linto listened to its tones, hearing the bloody cries that permeated the deepest parts of this land, constantly radiating out.
They were unjustly dead souls.
The souls weren't in hell.
They were attached to banknotes, lying on tatami mats in the entertainment district, and leaning on desks in ninja schools. And the moment Linto felt them, each soul turned its gaze towards him.
Then, they knelt.
They begged Linto to end it all.
Linto slowly opened his eyes.
He didn't know if what he felt before was an illusion, but he understood why these souls hadn't gone to hell.
"Because this place is hell."
Linto put down the overloaded Ruin Greatsword, raised his hand, pointing at Pain and Obito, his eyes full of burning determination:
"Next, it's you."
Obito saw the anger in Linto's eyes.
It was a human's contempt for another human from the soul.
In Linto's eyes, Obito was no longer worthy of being human.
Perhaps the gaze was too intense, a rare hint of annoyance appeared in Obito's cold heart. He didn't like talking to opponents during battle, but today, he couldn't help but speak—
"Do you think you're a righteous hero?"
"You have no idea what evil Kirigakure has done."
"Everything they've suffered is their own fault."
"Rin... died because of Kirigakure!"
After Obito finished speaking, he thought Linto would argue with him, but he noticed that there was a hint of... disdain in Linto's anger.
Linto always had a question in his mind, the policies of the Bloody Mist Village were against the purpose of collecting wealth and controlling Kirigakure.
He thought there was a hidden meaning behind this, for another unknown purpose.
Now it seems...
"If it were a pure schemer, creating all this tragedy for some ideal, I would be angry, but I can understand this pure black will. But you—"
Linto stared coldly at Obito.
"You're nothing more than a common, vulgar person."
Under Linto's gaze, Obito felt as if someone had opened his chest, taken out his heart, and let the cold wind blow through it, making his heart ache and twitch. This was followed by a surge of anger.
If Obito was willing to describe this emotion, Linto would tell him that it's called:
Being ashamed into anger.
"What do you know—"
Before Obito could finish speaking, golden lightning flashed.
"As an adult, don't always say childish things that make others understand you, I won't try to understand you."
Linto appeared next to Obito, and said softly:
"I'll just kill you."
Linto kicked him, passing through Obito's body as expected.
"Star Platinum!"
Under the super-high concentration of spirit, the world froze for a moment. Star Platinum punched towards Pain.
This punch was really too fast.
Perhaps because of Linto's extremely angry mood, this punch was several times faster than before.
The fist touched Pain's cheek. Anyone else would have been unable to react to the twisted and sunken chin, stimulated by the vagus and trigeminal nerves.
But Pain was a remotely controlled puppet.
In the last moment before his head was smashed, he activated Almighty Push.
Linto and Star Platinum were sent flying again.
However, it wasn't just Obito and Pain who collected information on the battlefield. Linto was also adapting to the rhythm of battle in his own way.
He had expected Pain's actions and immediately summoned Aerosmith, firing bullets at Pain during his five-second cooldown, forcing Pain to retreat.
"Be careful!"
Obito shouted a warning while quickly forming hand seals.
"Fire Release·Wild Whirlwind Dance!"
Rings of flames wrapped around Linto, who was blasted into the air.
Pain felt a chill down his back. Through the Asura Path's shared vision, he saw White Snake quietly appearing behind him. Only then did he realize that Linto had cancelled Star Platinum's summon at some point.
"Hehe."
White Snake grinned and reached out to touch Pain's forehead.
Buzz—Click!
Two gray-white, fragile discs popped out.
White Snake was about to reach out to grab them when it heard the roar of a rocket. The Asura Path was launching himself like a missile, embracing Pain's Deva Path.
White Snake was forced back by the flames on the Asura Path's body. Failing to take the discs, it raised its chin slightly and sneered, saying:
"Think you're a big shot? Who doesn't have a brother who can 'tutututu'!"
Snap!
White Snake snapped his fingers.
"Kill him!"
Aerosmith locked onto the Asura Path's flight path, and the missiles hanging below shot out, hitting the fleeing Asura Path and Deva Path.
The explosion's flames soared into the sky, and a small mushroom cloud slowly rose.
The shock wave mixed with sand hit Obito's mask, making a cracking sound.
His eyelids twitched, and he had no energy to care about Pain's situation.
Because Linto was tearing through the flames of Wild Whirlwind Dance like a monster, clenching his fist and smashing towards him.
Boom—
Linto's fist went through Obito and hit the ground.
The next second, Star Platinum appeared and unleashed thousands of punches.
No matter how Obito dodged, Star Platinum was like a true evil spirit, always enveloping him in its attack range.
Absolute overwhelming speed, power, precision, and reaction. All Obito could do was constantly maintain a phase-shifting state.
But phase-shifting has a time limit!
Obito hid in the ground, and Star Platinum punched open the earth.
He hid in the trees, and Star Platinum chopped down the giant tree with one palm.
The Kamui that Obito uses has two forms:
The first is partial phase-shifting, where enemies can see him but can't touch or attack him, which is suitable for combat.
The second is entering the Kamui space to achieve a "teleportation"-like effect, which is suitable for fleeing and traveling.
However, both of these abilities have limitations.
The time limit for partial phase-shifting is five minutes.
Entering the Kamui space requires him to solidify his body first, then briefly distort the space before entering it.
This time is very short, only a fraction of a second, but...
Obito looked at the fist swung by Star Platinum up close.
He doesn't need fractions of a second.
The moment he solidifies, is the moment he turns into a corpse.
Minute after minute passed, and cold sweat covered Obito's forehead behind the mask. He shouted, "How much longer do you need to prepare?!"
Pain's cold voice rose from under his feet.
"It's now."
A pair of hands stretched out from underground, throwing a small ball with a pitch-black core and a white halo around it at Linto.
The ball was extremely fast and had no physical form, passing through Star Platinum's fist and attaching to Linto's chest.
Pain jumped out of the ground and clasped his hands together.
"Chibaku Tensei."
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