It's better to be a rebel ninja than to be a Hokage

The strong chakra fluctuations easily destroyed the Hidden Rain Village.

Even the specially reinforced tower where the gods live in the Hidden Rain Village was severely affected.

The true form of Pain's Six Paths, the true face of God - Pain's Seventh Path, the Outer Path Nagato's purple eyes of reincarnation were full of shock.

According to legend, the Rinnegan is the eyes of the Six Paths Sage, the ancestor of ninja. Anyone who possesses this legendary eye can master all ninjutsu in the world.

but……

"What is that technique?"

Of course, Nagato, who possesses the Rinnegan, has mastered countless ninjutsu, and can even easily bring the dead back to life.

But when it came to Uzumaki Naruto's final technique to destroy Pain and the others, Nagato had no idea.

"Is this a ninjutsu that guy created himself?"

Nagato recalled the natural energy in the Great Rasengan that he sensed before the Six Paths of Pain were completely destroyed, which was so huge that it became "substantial".

The power of that technique can be said to be comparable to the "Super Shinra Tensei" mastered by Nagato.

However, even with the eyes of a sage, the cost for Nagato to use Super Shinra Tensei is extremely high.

Nagato needs to concentrate the power of the Six Paths, and each time he uses it, it will consume a lot of Nagato's vitality.

For Nagato, whose legs are disabled and who has become emaciated from overdrawing his physical and mental energy to maintain the existence and activities of the Outer Path Golem.

Every time Super Shinra Tensei is used, the life support device that provides limited mobility for the disabled Nagato becomes more like a coffin.

And Nagato is the dry bones in the grave with the lamp in this "coffin" about to go out.

This is the price of becoming a god. Even if you are a god, you cannot use this power that only gods possess at will.

But Naruto Uzumaki's large Rasengan Rin breaks this iron rule.

"As expected of the Nine-Tailed Fox..."

Now, even Nagato couldn't help but sigh.

As the leader of the tailed beasts, the Nine-Tails' Jinchūriki is definitely not comparable to the Jinchūriki of other tailed beasts.

Simply a monster among monsters.

Uzumaki Naruto, he easily defeated the carefully selected powerful ninjas from the Akatsuki organization, and now he easily destroyed the Hidden Rain Village where Akatsuki originated with just one technique.

Pain's Six Paths were also defeated by Uzumaki Naruto.

But there is still a chance!

Although the Six Paths of Pain were defeated by Uzumaki Naruto, this also meant that the power of Nagato that was scattered among the Six Paths of Pain once again gathered on Nagato, an outer path.

The human world, the animal world, the Asura world, the hungry ghost world, the hell world... and the heavenly world.

First, use the power of the Animal Path to summon back the Heavenly Path spirit that was taken to an unknown place by Naruto's Flying Thunder Formation Technique.

As long as Tendo is brought back to the range where he can receive chakra through the black stick, he will be able to once again replace Nagato's weak body and fight Uzumaki Naruto.

Then, he concentrated all the power of the Six Paths on Deva, and in the form of a complete god, he sealed the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki - Uzumaki Naruto!

"I'm sorry... Yahiko, because of my negligence, Konan--"

Nagato weakly raised his hands, whose muscles had almost completely atrophied and were as thin as skin and bones, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

The technique used by Uzumaki Naruto is called Great Rasengan, and its range is so large that even Pain and others cannot avoid it.

Xiaonan, who was also at the center of the operation at that time, naturally...

Of his former best friend, Nagato is now the only one left.

"——Let the two of us take revenge on the Nine-Tails personally, and then correct this wrong ninja world!"

Once the most troublesome of the nine tailed beasts, the Nine-Tailed Beast, is captured, the day when the god appears before the world will be at hand.

By then, in that correct world, whether it is Konan or Yahiko...

The hope for the future allowed Nagato to turn the grief in his heart into strength.

Nagato finally managed to put his bony hands together in front of his chest with great difficulty, and he formed seals with his hands, performing the spiritual technique of summoning the way of heaven.

"Psychic——"

However, something strange happened.

Countless glowing chakra chains penetrated the camouflage barrier that Nagato used to hide his true body in the tower. When Nagato was about to use the summoning technique, these chakra chains wrapped around Nagato's hands and separated his hands!

This technique was not unfamiliar to Nagato.

The Uzumaki clan’s sealing technique—the Diamond Seal!

Immediately afterwards, countless pure white papers followed the chakra chains and wrapped Nagato.

"This is?!!"

The appearance of these white papers made Nagato feel incredible.

Nagato didn't want to believe his own guess.

But the answer that Nagato didn't want to face ruthlessly told him that his guess was extremely correct.

The white paper covering Nagato's chest began to gather chakra in large quantities, and these chakras condensed into an upper body of a woman made of white paper.

With the infusion of chakra, the white paper in the shape of a human body turned into a figure that was very familiar to Nagato.

Xiaonan!

Yes, the barrier that hides Nagato's true body is known to only Konan besides Nagato himself.

Then the person who cast the diamond-sealed chakra chains that bound Nagato's body was...

After all, before the chakra chain appeared, Nagato didn't sense this chakra.

The way that chakra suddenly appeared was like the simultaneous space ninjutsu Flying Thunder God.

However, outside the dissipated barrier, the red-haired girl who cast the Diamond Seal made Nagato stunned again.

Not Uzumaki Naruto!

The girl's conspicuous red hair and sealing technique should be the descendant of the Uzumaki clan who is beside Uzumaki Naruto, Karin.

Uzumaki Naruto seemed to know everything about Pain and Nagato.

Nagato always felt confused and unpredictable about Uzumaki Naruto's every move.

Nagato knew that Karin was from the Uzumaki clan, was proficient in sealing techniques, and was a medical ninja with extremely high medical talent. He even deduced from various intelligence that Karin should have extremely terrifying perception abilities.

Little did they know that Karin had the ability to completely hide her own chakra.

Naruto had already prepared everything. Karin's ability to hide her chakra was first shown in the original work at the Five Kage Summit.

Nozomi, the perceptive ninja beside the Fourth Raikage and known as the "Fourth Raikage's left hand", was unable to discover Karin who was deliberately hiding herself.

Now Nagato is mostly focused on how to deal with Naruto, so of course he wouldn't notice it if he didn't try to sense it.

Before he could take a closer look at Karin's appearance, Nagato felt a sharp pain in front of his eyes.

Everything happens in an instant.

Nagato was already weak, and on top of that he was trapped in the shackles of the King Kong Sealing Technique, so he had no time to react at all.

Konan took away his Rinnegan without hesitation, and without his eyes, he fell into darkness from which he could never escape.

And in the darkness, Nagato felt the stabbing pain in his chest again.

The fragile white paper will always turn into the sharpest weapon in the ninja world in Konan's hands.

The paper sword pierced Nagato's heart, and the white paper greedily sucked the blood from the heart.

The originally pure white paper sword instantly turned into a striking bright red.

Even after becoming a god, the frail Nagato thought about his own death countless times.

He thought about how he might die from finally completely overdrawing his chakra;

He thought about dying in the process of capturing the tailed beasts;

I thought about dying in the battle against the Five Kage in the name of God;

He thought about ending the hypocrisy between him and Uchiha Madara, but unfortunately died at the hands of Uchiha Madara in the battle.

Or he might die at the hands of Uzumaki Naruto. After all, in the previous battle with him, Uzumaki Naruto obviously had obtained some extremely core information about Pain by some unknown means.

But Nagato never expected that the person who would eventually put an end to him would be Konan.

In this ninja world full of pain, Yahiko, who had long passed away, and Konan, who had been silently caring for Nagato on his behalf after his death, were the only two people Nagato could completely trust.

"Why……"

Nagato is puzzled by Konan's betrayal.

As his life was about to end, he couldn't help but question.

But before Konan could answer, Nagato already knew the answer.

"It's that Sharingan!"

The three-magatama Sharingan in Naruto's left eye actually made Nagato feel cautious in the previous battle.

Naruto didn't use the Sharingan during his battle with Pain, which confused Nagato.

It seems that Nagato's tactic of letting Konan deal with the invaders and delay time before activating the hibernation chambers of Pains was taken advantage of by Naruto.

Naruto used the truth to make up lies in order to hide his true purpose.

He used "Heaven's Way" as bait, and his target from beginning to end was Nagato's true self.

Until the very end, in order to relax Nagato's vigilance, Konan, who was under the illusion, "took the initiative" to remind Pain that Naruto approached Tendo through the Flying Thunder God Mark on Konan's body.

Naruto even took advantage of the situation to create the illusion of Konan's "death" during the final ritual to destroy Pains and others.

"Konan, wake up! Don't continue to be trapped in the illusion!"

Blood began to flow out from Nagato's throat. Nagato endured the physical pain and tried incoherently to free Konan from the illusion.

However, his cries were ultimately meaningless.

The genjutsu that Naruto cast on Konan was not an ordinary illusion.

Rather, it is the absolute illusion possessed by Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan, which even Shimura Danzo and Uchiha Obito desire to possess!

Until Nagato's breathing stopped, he didn't get any response from Konan.

"Nagato is dead."

Konan, who was wrapping Nagato in the form of a white paper, knew Nagato's situation better than anyone else present.

Nagato's body became stiff and cold, and his heart stopped beating completely.

"I know."

Naruto's voice sounded behind Konan.

After receiving Naruto's reply, the white papers covering Nagato's body fell off and floated in the air.

At this moment, Karin also stopped maintaining the blockade of King Kong.

The flying white papers gathered in front of Naruto, and then turned into a complete Konan.

However, one piece of red-stained paper did not return to Konan's body, but was sent to Naruto by Konan.

Wrapped in this red-dyed paper was the Rinnegan that Konan had just taken from Nagato's eyes.

Naruto stared at these purple eyes, the Rinnegan installed on Nagato by Uchiha Madara. These eyes of the sage would bring great power to the owner, but at this moment they did not attract much interest in Naruto.

Naruto was more curious about Konan now.

He moved his gaze away from the Rinnegan and looked up at Konan.

"It seems that your pupil power has recovered."

Konan also stared at Naruto's left eye.

The Mangekyō Sharingan, which had been forced to "degenerate" into a three-magatama Sharingan due to the use of Kotoamatsukami, has now recovered its eye power so quickly under the nourishment of Naruto's huge chakra.

The three magatama turned into a kaleidoscope again.

"You have already cornered Nagato. Is it necessary for you to be so cautious as to wait until the pupil power recovers before appearing again at the last moment?"