Fuu and her companions were startled, looking vigilantly in the direction the voice came from.
They saw a black-haired young man, who had appeared on the treetop of a large tree at some unknown point, watching them with interest.
When did he appear?!
As the leading Jōnin teacher of the Elite Jonin, he hadn't noticed him at all!
"Who are you?!" the teacher barked, simultaneously shielding Fuu behind him.
"Just a passing tourist." Hansen smiled, his figure flickered, and he instantly appeared in front of Fuu.
Too fast!
So fast that no one could react!
"Don't be nervous, I just came to chat with that big bug inside you."
As Hansen spoke, he reached out and pressed his hand against Fuu's forehead.
"Oh no!"
The teacher's face changed drastically, desperately trying to stop him, but his body seemed to be under a paralysis jutsu, completely unable to move.
He could only watch helplessly as Hansen's hand landed on Fuu's head.
As before, Hansen's consciousness sank into Fuu's inner world.
The Seven-Tails Chōmei was a giant rhinoceros beetle with seven tails, and its temper was much gentler than Shukaku and Kurama.
After a simple 'persuasion by physical means', Chōmei readily allowed Hansen to copy its abilities.
In less than a minute, Hansen's consciousness returned.
He released his hand, looking at Fuu, who was still bewildered and hadn't figured out the situation, and the group of Takigakure ninja around her who looked like they were facing a great enemy, and smiled.
"Excuse me."
Before his voice faded, his figure vanished again.
Leaving behind a group of ninja looking at each other, full of questions... In the time that followed, Hansen entered true speedrun mode.
Second stop, Land of Earth, Iwagakure.
He appeared directly in the Tsuchikage's office and slapped away the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki's bloodline limit 'Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World'.
From then on, the Land of Earth allowed him to travel unhindered.
As Hansen successively found the Four-Tails Jinchūriki Rōshi and the Five-Tails Jinchūriki Han.
The 'Lava Release' and 'Boil Release' abilities of the two great Tailed Beasts were also instantly refined after some friendly exchanges.
Done, packed up, leaving... Third stop, Kumogakure.
Facing the volatile Fourth Raikage A and his Killer B combination, Hansen didn't even bother to speak.
He directly activated the 'Myriad Phenomenon Force Field' and pressed the two brothers to the ground for a good beating.
Then, in front of the entire Kumogakure and the two Jinchūriki, he NTR'd the abilities of the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails... Fourth stop, Kirigakure.
At this time, Kirigakure, under the leadership of the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumī, had already emerged from the shadow of the "Bloody Mist Village."
When Hansen appeared in the Mizukage's office, this sexy and mature female Kage did not yell and kill like the others.
She merely teaseed her hair charmingly, looking at Hansen with eyes that could melt steel.
"Sir, may I ask why you visit so late at night? If you wish to spend the night with me, it's not impossible~"
Hansen glanced at Chōjūrō, the weakest Mizukage in future history, who stood beside her with a look that said, "Try to touch her," and felt a bit speechless.
"No, if I had landed in Kirigakure just now, I might have been interested, but now," Hansen casually suppressed Mei Terumī, who was harboring ulterior motives and looking for an opportunity to ambush him, "I'm in a hurry."
Mei Terumī: "Uh..."
With the Six-Tails Jinchūriki Utakata taken care of, Hansen's collection journey was more than half complete in just half a day.
The remaining Tailed Beasts couldn't escape either; he visited them one by one, following the Chakra reactions that glowed like beacons in his senses.
The entire Shinobi World fell silent.
The high-ranking officials of the various Hidden Villages held countless emergency meetings to discuss countermeasures.
But no matter how much they discussed, the only conclusion they reached was—
That is, they were completely helpless against this person.
They couldn't defeat him, and they couldn't escape him.
They could only pray that the other party had no evil intentions to destroy the world.
Meanwhile, as the instigator of all this, Hansen floated above Amegakure, feeling the nine distinct yet originating from the same source powers within him.
"All Nine-Tails are accounted for; now, all that's missing is a 'vessel' to integrate them."
His gaze pierced through the continuous rain curtain, landing on the tallest spire in the center of Amegakure.
There, the Ten-Tails' husk, the Gedo Statue, which Nagato had summoned, was stored.
That was his final piece of the puzzle for this trip... Rain, falling ceaselessly.
This was the eternal theme of Amegakure, as if weeping for the endless wars and suffering of this country.
Hansen walked on the cold streets, but the surrounding rainwater seemed to have eyes, automatically avoiding his body, keeping his clothes dry.
The pedestrians on the street looked numb and hurried, casting respectful yet distant glances at this Monster who appeared out of nowhere and remained untouched by the rain.
In their mouths, they all respectfully referred to one name—Pain.
Pain was the god of this village, bringing long-awaited peace to this country.
Hansen didn't care about any of this; his senses had long locked onto the tallest metal spire in the center of the village.
Nagato, Konan, and the "Six Paths of Pain" he used as puppets were all there.
Of course, there was also his ultimate goal for this trip—
The husk of the Ten-Tails, the "Gedo Statue."
He didn't use the main entrance, nor did he alert any guards.
Hansen's figure, like a ghost, directly passed through the tower's wall and appeared in the top-floor room.
In the room, a slender man with red hair and numerous black iron rods embedded in his back sat on a huge life support device.
He was Nagato, the leader of the Akatsuki.
And by his side stood a cold and beautiful blue-haired woman made of countless paper pieces, Konan.
Besides them, there were also six corpses with black rods embedded in them and vacant eyes standing in the room, which were the "Six Paths of Pain" that Nagato used to act in the outside world.
When Hansen's figure appeared without warning, the atmosphere in the room instantly solidified.
Konan's body instantly transformed into a sky full of paper pieces, firmly shielding Nagato behind her, with countless paper shuriken ready to launch.
Deva Path Pain immediately stood in front, his Rinnegan filled with vigilance.
"Who are you?!"
Nagato's hoarse voice, spoken through the mouth of Deva Path Pain, was filled with wariness and shock.
His proud sensory ninjutsu, which covered the entire Amegakure, had not reacted at all to this person's intrusion!
"Don't be nervous, I'm not here to fight." Hansen waved his hand, his gaze directly passing over them to the huge Monster hidden in the shadows in the depths of the room.
"I'm just here to borrow something."
"Borrow something?" Nagato frowned, his emaciated body, as if drained by Konan, instinctively tensed, "What do you want to borrow?"
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