Sasuke paused for a moment, turning his head to look at Yoruha, who was standing at a distance watching him. Yoruha looked at Sasuke and said, "Alright, stop fooling around. The village still needs rebuilding. Don't waste time." Sasuke nodded, "Okay, I'll go take care of those two."
Just as Sasuke was about to deal with Kisame Hoshigaki and Deidara, Yoruha said, "No need to go. Those two are already dead." Sasuke's mouth twitched slightly, "You act too fast, don't you? You said you'd leave it all to me."
Sasuke felt a bit helpless. Yoruha explained, "There are still real enemies that haven't been dealt with. These three aren't worth spending that much time on." Sasuke ignored the barely breathing Kakuzu and walked toward Yoruha, asking as he walked, "Who else hasn't been taken care of?"
Kakuzu watched Sasuke's back, his mouth twitching, "Damn, damn brat, to think he would, he would ignore me..." But Kakuzu's voice grew weaker and weaker, until it was almost inaudible.
However, Sasuke indeed didn't pay him any mind. The earlier battle was just a way to vent his anger over Sakura being injured. Now that Yoruha had appeared, Sasuke naturally wouldn't waste any more time. He could take down Kakuzu in less than a minute.
Deidara and Kisame Hoshigaki had also been taken down by Yoruha. They didn't even know of Yoruha's existence, nor where the enemy was before they were defeated. Standing in front of Yoruha, Sasuke asked, "Which enemy is left?"
Yoruha glanced in a direction outside the Hidden Leaf Village, "The one controlling those corpses. You noticed they were corpses, right?" Sasuke nodded. "Then go find that guy. He turned the village into this, killed so many people. We must make him revive the people in the village."
Sasuke agreed, "The Rinnegan does have the power of resurrection." Although Sasuke hadn't awakened his own Rinnegan, he was familiar with its abilities from using Ōtsutsuki Urashiki's Rinnegan for so long. In the next moment, Yoruha and Sasuke vanished from their spot.
Meanwhile, in the mountains several kilometers away from the Hidden Leaf Village, there stood a tree larger than the surrounding trees, though not particularly tall. This eerie tree was, of course, the hiding place of Nagato and Konan.
After all the Pains were taken down by Sasuke, Nagato felt a deep fear of Sasuke's power. Inside the tree hollow, Nagato coughed violently. Losing all the Pains had taken a significant toll on him. His already frail body was even weaker now, and with the Deva Path Pain having consumed a large amount of chakra earlier, Nagato was extremely weak.
Konan looked at the violently coughing Nagato with concern, "Nagato, let's leave here quickly. I didn't expect that Uchiha Sasuke would be so powerful, but as long as we go back and create more Pains, I'm sure we can find a way to deal with him."
"But where did Uchiha Sasuke's Rinnegan come from? I've never heard of him having a Rinnegan." Konan found it very strange that Sasuke had a Rinnegan, and that his Rinnegan was even stronger than Nagato's.
Nagato didn't answer, as he was still coughing violently. In the next moment, two people suddenly appeared inside the tree hollow.
Konan immediately stepped in front of Nagato. Upon seeing the two clearly, Konan trembled all over, "Uchiha Sasuke!" She had clearly witnessed Sasuke's formidable power just moments ago.
But how did Sasuke find this place so quickly, when it was dozens of kilometers away from Konoha? Konan was extremely shocked by Sasuke's arrival. As for Yoruha, she completely ignored him. After all, she hadn't perceived any significant power from Yoruha, and she hadn't even heard of him before.
Sasuke looked at the emaciated Nagato and the Gedo Statue behind him, frowning, "Is this guy the mastermind behind it all?" The Nagato before him seemed too weak, and Sasuke couldn't see anything special about him.
Yoruha, observing Nagato, wasn't surprised—not because he remembered what Nagato was like at this time, but because he had previously scanned the entire planet and seen Nagato's condition.
Seeing Nagato's pained expression, Yoruha still remarked, "It should be him. Although his body is very weak right now and his chakra is greatly depleted, those Rinnegan eyes of his are genuine." "I suppose he exhausted too much chakra in the battle with you earlier and hasn't recovered yet." Sasuke nodded in agreement.
No matter how weak Nagato was now, his Rinnegan was real, unlike the mere appearance on Pain's body. Listening to Yoruha and Sasuke's conversation, Konan was full of vigilance, "What do you want now? We've already been defeated by you."
Yoruha remained silent, while Sasuke coldly replied, "What do we want? You destroyed Konoha Village to that extent, causing so many innocent villagers to die, and you have the nerve to ask us what we want?" Konan frowned, unsure of how to retort.
After all, many people in Konoha Village had indeed died. Nagato, struggling to speak, said, "That pain is what they should endure. I want them to feel the pain our Land of Rain has suffered. Because of you, the Land of Rain has always been on the brink of life and death."
"Why shouldn't you experience that kind of pain?" Nagato grew more agitated as he spoke. Sasuke frowned, wanting to argue back, but he couldn't understand the pain Nagato spoke of.
He wasn't familiar with the grievances between Konoha and the Hidden Rain Village. At this point, Yoruha said, "The war between our Land of Fire and your Land of Rain was during the Second Shinobi World War.
But after the Second Shinobi World War, there hasn't been much war. Do you think a few words can make our Land of Fire responsible for the pain of your Land of Rain? Are you out of your mind?"
"And since you want our Konoha Village's shinobi to feel pain, why involve so many innocent villagers?"
"Moreover, isn't your strength considerable? Instead of using it to protect and develop the Land of Rain, you come to our Konoha Village to engage in this kind of performance art. If our Konoha Village caused harm to your Hidden Rain Village in the past, you're now causing even greater harm to us, and it's not because of war, but purely out of venting."
Confused by Yoruha's argument, Nagato angrily retorted, "Shut up! Our Land of Rain suffered countless casualties because of the wars between your five great nations. I just want you to taste the unbearable pain we once endured."
Yoruha, undeterred, countered, "Do you really think I don't know history? The First Shinobi World War had nothing to do with your Land of Rain. The Second Shinobi World War did place the battlefield in your Land of Rain, but don't you have any idea why your Hidden Rain Village was attacked in the first place?"
"If your Land of Rain hadn't foolishly attacked the Land of Iron, it wouldn't have been used as a battlefield by several great nations." "Oh, so it's only okay for you to attack others, but not for others to attack you?"
"The Third Shinobi World War had nothing to do with you either, and your Land of Rain even gained quite a bit from it. So now, because things aren't going well, you're complaining to us?"
"But what does that have to do with us? You have such great power, yet you use it to create chaos throughout the Shinobi World. Isn't the technology of the Hidden Rain Village quite advanced?
It should have been used to improve people's lives, and you could have lived well, but instead, you poured all your resources into causing disturbances everywhere."
"As the current leader of the Hidden Rain Village, do you really have the face to mention the pain of the Hidden Rain Village?"