"Your techniques are useless against me."

Pain didn't pursue when he saw this scene, he spoke directly.

"I've seen through you, brat."

"Oh, really?"

Takemi tilted his head, then asked with a chuckle, "But I'm curious about one thing. When Obito and I met in Kirigakure, he was posing as Madara."

"And he's also in your organization. Do you actually know his true identity?"

"Before you die, you're thinking about such a boring question?" Pain shook his head, his voice exceptionally indifferent.

"Does who he is matter? No, it doesn't matter at all. What matters is what he can bring us."

"Whether he's Madara or an unknown nobody like Obito, it's all the same to me. So, your question is meaningless."

"I see."

Takemi nodded, just as he had thought.

Obito's wanted posters were flying everywhere. Nagato, having interacted with Obito, would naturally be suspicious.

However, suspicion or not wasn't important. What was important was that he and Konan seemed to have never trusted Obito from beginning to end.

The peace Obito wanted was for everyone to fall into a dream and thus create a new world that people longed for in their hearts.

Whereas Nagato wanted to crush the entire world with his own power, making himself the 'god' of the world.

To use power to make the entire world submit, so there would be no more resistance, and no more war. Even if there were still enemies, they would be himself.

For some reason, Takemi suddenly remembered a certain Gundam he had watched a long, long time ago.

The people in it seemed to be causing trouble with similar beliefs.

"Are you done with your questions?"

Pain calculated that enough time had passed, and said, "Then it's time to speed things up. I'm sorry, you and Jiraiya-sensei have both walked down the wrong path, you..."

"Wait, I think you've got one thing wrong."

Takemi didn't wait for Pain to finish speaking, and he suddenly grinned.

"I have the Flying Thunder God Technique. I can come and go as I please. Do you really think you can do anything to me?"

"..."

Pain raised an eyebrow, these words left him somewhat speechless.

"Besides, I seem to have seen through your abilities. The use of repulsion and attraction, right?" Takemi tilted his neck, his smile still bright.

"In addition, I've discovered two small secrets. One is the interval between your jutsu uses. If I'm not mistaken, it's five seconds, right?"

"..."

Although Pain's expression didn't change, his eyes subtly shifted.

"You're careful enough, constantly deflecting my Flying Thunder God, and always engaging me with weapons, absolutely not letting me touch you. Clearly, you've learned your lesson."

Chakra surged through Takemi's body again as he spoke unhurriedly, "But I've also been constantly observing and understanding your jutsu, using Flying Thunder God to test the time intervals, so I've probably figured out what's going on."

Takemi's words were pure nonsense, but this was meant to bluff Pain.

"Most importantly, I seem to have noticed that the Chakra on your body is off. Those black iron rods are constantly transmitting external Chakra, which means..."

Whoosh—

Before he finished speaking, Takemi suddenly charged forward, his figure already in front of Pain.

"Hmph!"

Pain didn't dare to misuse his jutsu, he directly counter-attacked by thrusting his black rod.

But the moment he struck Takemi, Takemi had already transformed into an endless surge of electricity.

"Lightning Clone? When?"

Before Pain could think further, countless kunai suddenly appeared around him. The next moment, under the influence of Chakra, they multiplied into thousands.

Dense kunai rained down like raindrops, completely covering Pain. At the same time, on the ground behind him, Takemi suddenly burst out.

As his blade swung, his voice entered Pain's ears, and even reached Nagato's ears in the distance.

"This is just a clone of yours. Why do you think I let you drag on for so long?"

"It's because I'm looking for your main body!"

"Guess if I found it..."

Takemi and Deva Path were fighting in a somewhat 'stalemate,' while other areas were also in chaos.

"Die, Kakashi!"

"It's useless, I've already seen through your jutsu."

Kakashi and Obito's battle was ongoing, but Kakashi was feeling somewhat perplexed.

He could break Obito's abilities, even if his mastery of Kamui wasn't at Obito's level.

As he gradually familiarized himself with Kamui's abilities, he could at least simply restrict Obito from using Kamui, which finally allowed him to worry less about Kamui's counter-measures.

However, Obito's physical toughness also left him speechless. He had clearly hit Obito so many times, but why was he still full of life?

"Also, what exactly happened in Takigakure? Why did Obito lose his sanity?"

In Kakashi's view, Obito did seem to have lost his sanity. Although his moves were extremely dangerous, they lacked much coherence.

But this was a good thing for him, as he had already decided to put an end to this Obito who was causing trouble everywhere.

"I need to speed up. Takemi seems to be facing a very dangerous opponent." Kakashi muttered to himself.

Not just him, Jiraiya also had similar thoughts. They hadn't forgotten how Ōnoki's Dust Release, which descended from the sky in the Land of Earth, was countered.

He still had too many questions unanswered, such as why Yahiko had the Rinnegan, and what other things he didn't know about were involved.

"Tsunade, are you alright?"

While worrying about Takemi and Yahiko, he was also quite concerned about his old partner.

"No problem, at least for now."

Tsunade knew what Jiraiya was worried about. She shook her head, looking at Itachi not far away.

"At least for now there's no problem, but I'm not sure about later, damn it..."

"I understand. I'll find a way to solve the problem as soon as possible."

Jiraiya nodded, feeling a bit envious as he thought of Takemi's ability to enter Sage Mode at will.

However, in this situation, he also needed to try his luck with Sage Mode.

"Then..."

Jiraiya made a decision. He prepared to summon Gamabunta to buy time, but before he could even form the hand seals, he suddenly looked up.

"What is this?"

Not just him, everyone else, including the somewhat crazed Obito, felt something at that moment.

They involuntarily looked up into the distance, and precisely at that moment, a massive blast of air suddenly rushed towards them.

Boom—

As the air blast swept through, countless trees snapped, and surrounding rocks and paths instantly shattered.

A dense mushroom cloud quietly bloomed in the distant forest.

(End of Chapter)

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