Late at night, in Amegakure, atop the central-most skyscraper.
Uzumaki Nagato sat on a specially made chair, eyes closed in rest. Even in sleep, his body twitched slightly from the pain of the wounds on his back and legs.
Given his current physical condition, especially with so many black rods embedded in his back, he had no way to lie down or sleep on his stomach. Every day, he could only sleep while sitting in his chair.
In his dreams, Nagato seemed to have returned to the past. A faint chill permeated his body, as if the cold rain from the sky was falling on him. He saw the scene of Yahiko dying by his hand once again... Under the immense psychological shock, he snapped his eyes open, only to find that he was no longer in Amegakure but on a desolate land. The cold wind swept past, piercingly chilly, which was the reason he had felt the cold.
The six paths of pain, which he had always controlled, were now completely unresponsive. He didn't know if they had been destroyed or if they were just too far away to sense.
When he looked up, his face filled with shock. The massive pale blue planet above him looked very similar to the maps he had seen. Looking at the surrounding environment, even though Nagato considered himself well-traveled and knowledgeable, he felt dumbfounded: "This place... is the Moon?!"
Before he could finish his thought, he felt a whistling wind from behind. Turning his head, he saw a massive statue suddenly appear behind him.
"The Gedo Statue... what on earth is going on? Why have I and the Gedo Statue suddenly arrived on the Moon?"
"The Gedo Statue was originally inside the Moon; now it has simply returned to its original place. As for you... I think you are a very useful catfish, so I brought you along."
Appearing alongside this voice were a handsome Blond Youth and a tall, peerless beauty. The youth's gaze toward Nagato was as if he were looking at some rare and exotic beast.
Nagato narrowed his eyes slightly. Years of suffering had long since tempered the originally introverted boy into a qualified Ninja. Sensing that his Six Paths incarnations had completely vanished, he practically without a word directly activated his Ninjutsu: "Shinra Tensei!"
A powerful repulsive force transformed into a semi-spherical shield, pushing out in all directions. However, before the force could reach Vegapunk, Hancock's face had already turned frostily cold. She leaped up and smashed a fist directly against the repulsion field.
The sound of cracking was endless. The originally powerful repulsive force contended with Hancock for a moment before being pushed right back. Nagato himself, with a 'whoosh', was instead sent flying.
Even Nagato himself hadn't expected this. Caught completely unprepared, he flew back and slammed into a cliff wall behind him. The black iron rods already filling his back pierced through his chest with a series of squelching sounds.
When using his original body instead of the six paths of pain, Nagato's Shinra Tensei was certainly more powerful, but the backlash once it was broken was also beyond imagination. Not to mention his body was already very fragile and riddled with iron rods. With just one punch from Hancock, this orphan of the Uzumaki Clan had already mangled himself internally, coughing up blood and on the verge of death.
"Hancock, you were too heavy-handed!" Vegapunk said with a roll of his eyes. Then, he reached out, and a strange magnetic force directly pulled Nagato up, transporting him before him.
"Sorry, darling, I didn't expect this guy to be so fragile... please forgive me, okay~~"
Hancock looked pitiful, clinging to Vegapunk and nuzzling him. However, Vegapunk had long since seen through her; she didn't actually have any intention of reflecting, she was just using it as an excuse to act spoiled.
"Alright, alright, I'm not blaming you," Vegapunk gently patted Hancock's lowered head, then turned his gaze back to Nagato, who was currently at death's door.
"Help with some emergency treatment, Hancock!"
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