Toji coughed, spitting out a wad of dirt which he swallowed. Back to his normal appearance, he felt his bones crack slightly from the last attack, it hadn't really hurt him, but the impact was quite strong.
When he came to, a figure was already in front of him, Deva Path.
There were no other Paths around him, only the Deva, it was unknown where he had sent the others.
Toji narrowed his eyes, his body disappearing as he tried to cut Pain, but Pain easily dodged.
Frowning slightly, he did it again, but Pain seemed to have eyes everywhere, clearly Toji had missed something. He stepped back while looking around.
Finally, his eyes focused above, in the air, the figure of the Pain animal was already visible, staring directly at him.
Toji was confused, didn't he just kill that one?
However, he didn't have time to think, a big crossbow emerged from the ground, and an arrow shot directly towards Toji. Toji's eyes widened, that arrow was incredibly fast!
Raising his hand slightly in front of him, a wall of flames rose up. The arrow struck it directly, but unlike what one might expect, that wall didn't let the arrow pass through. Instead, it stopped it as if it were solid, burning it immediately afterward.
Toji was already confused, so he immediately opened his Byakugan.
The veins around his eyes bulged, he finally understood what was happening.
He saw Nagato's figure about two kilometers away, there were three paths beside him. Nagato had probably brought the corpses directly to him before "fixing" them. On Toji's side were the Deva, Animal, and Asura paths.
The animal in the air, the Deva on the ground, and the Asura beneath it, watching.
Toji frowned slightly, then, in the next moment, he scoffed, placing his hand on the ground. He felt the power of the abyss within his body, amplified by his senjutsu, and he unleashed it directly onto the ground.
Pain sensed that something was wrong and was about to attack, but the next moment, his eyes widened, and he jumped back.
On the ground, lava gushed from where Toji stood, the ground turned black as lines of flames opened up directly from the earth.
The next moment, Toji smiled, the warm, malevolent aura enveloping him, and spoke. - IttoKaso!
[A/N: For those who don't know, it's Hado 96 from Bleach.]
A massive pillar of fire erupted directly from the earth, exploding across a circular area of hundreds of meters, the fire parted the sky, shooting straight upwards.
The Asura Path couldn't escape, nor could the Deva Path, the only one saved was the Animal Path in the sky.
When the fire finally subsided, Toji stood naked on the molten ground and flowing lava, with only the Snake Clone and Shakukonto still with him.
Looking in the direction of Deva Pain, he saw the figure with its upper body charred, both hands facing forward, its body still emitting smoke.
Toji raised an eyebrow, he figured the Deva Path had been destroyed, which would probably infuriate Nagato.
The Asura Path, on the other hand, was not so lucky, nothing was left to tell the tale.
Toji glanced at the Deva Path, then, the next moment, he advanced again, unconcerned about his nakedness, a smile on his face, his sword slashing towards Pain.
The Deva Path had used up a lot of power, its attack was on recharge. It only managed to jump backward, but it was slower than Toji, that much was clear. However, from the air, a huge rhinoceros literally fell.
The animal path summoned a giant rhinoceros directly above them.
Toji watched the falling figure, he could escape, but what fun would that be?
His arm became a flaming skeleton, just her arm, and in the next moment, Shakukonto was demonized again. Not only that, but the Lava Sword grew above it, and Toji brandished the sword directly upwards.
The giant rhinoceros's roar of pain was the last thing heard before the animal was split in two horizontally. The two halves, still in the air, had their demonic flames spread, and by the time the figure fell, it had already turned to charcoal.
Nagato was speechless. Toji was very difficult to deal with, he had many tricks up his sleeve, despite being a specialist in fire and lava style, something he didn't know. That skeletal arm only increased Pain's confusion.
Besides his speed and physical power, he also possessed great kenjutsu skills.
Pain, for the first time, had encountered an enemy so powerful, not even Hanzo had made him feel this way.
He wondered if he could handle Toji, but in any case, he had already attacked, so even if he wasn't going to recruit him, it was better to bury him here!
Two other paths of Pain had reached this point, the Human Path and the Preta Path. Toji could see with his Byakugan in the distance that the Naraka Path was not far away.
Toji chuckled lightly, these guys really couldn't see the difference in strength.
Nagato thought he was God, but unfortunately he didn't know that the Devil was the opposite of God.
Toji cracked his neck, his naked figure suddenly burst into flames, a flaming skeleton was what Pain stared at, even the Snake clone had been demonized, the skeletal snake still coiled around the skeleton.
Holding the demonized Shakukonto, Toji was the very definition of the Devil himself.