Hearing Kai's words, Nagato's eyes—which had been filled only with emptiness and despair—suddenly blazed with hopeful light. He looked at Kai urgently and said:
"Quickly! Save Yahiko! I'm willing to pay any price!"
As fellow war orphans who had lived together since childhood, the bond between the three of them was something others could never truly understand. Even if the price was his own life, Nagato wouldn't hesitate for a moment!
"Think carefully—what I want are your Rinnegan," Kai said, looking at Nagato's eyes.
Nagato froze, lowered his head, and fell silent. From Jiraiya-sensei's words, he had learned what his eyes represented!
The legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths—the very eyes the Sage had used to establish order and peace in the shinobi world!
Eyes that could create... and destroy!
But after only a moment, Nagato raised his head and looked at Kai with firm determination: "Fine, but you must revive Yahiko first. Otherwise, even if I destroy these eyes, I won't let you have them!"
As he spoke, two fingers dug deep into his eye sockets. If Kai showed the slightest suspicious movement, Nagato would immediately choose to destroy his own eyes!
Kai smiled slightly, somewhat dismissive. If he truly wanted to take them by force, Nagato's actions would be futile.
"Agreed," Kai said.
He walked over to Yahiko's side. Seeing Kai approach, Konan took two steps back.
Opening his tomoe Reincarnation Eyes, Kai examined every tissue within Yahiko's body clearly, murmuring: "Just a shattered heart—his soul hasn't even left his body. This lacks any challenge."
Kai didn't even need to use the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique. He directly infused Yang Release power into Yahiko's body.
Even when Guy had opened the Death Gate and completely shattered his heart, Naruto had been able to save him with his half-baked Yang Release—let alone Kai, who had completely mastered Yin-Yang Release.
Yahiko's injuries were ridiculously simple!
Under the nourishment of Yang Release power, Yahiko's heart was quickly restored to perfect condition. Then Kai injected a trace of Lightning Release chakra to activate Yahiko's heartbeat.
Thump... thump...
Yahiko's weak heartbeat reached Nagato and Konan's ears—it was the most beautiful sound imaginable.
Yahiko opened his eyes with some difficulty, confusion filling his gaze.
Seeing Nagato and Konan nearby, he suddenly froze, a trace of sadness appearing in his eyes as he said: "Nagato, Konan... are you dead too!?"
"Pfft..." Konan wept tears of joy, looking at Yahiko: "Yahiko, you're not dead—you've been brought back to life."
"I've been... brought back to life?"
Yahiko looked at his hands in bewilderment, then raised his head to survey his surroundings. Besides Nagato and Konan, only a tall man and a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl remained.
"Thank you for saving me," Yahiko said, clearly realizing it was Kai who had rescued him.
Kai shrugged: "It's nothing—just a transaction." He then turned his gaze to Nagato: "Now, can you give me the Rinnegan?"
Nagato hesitated briefly but didn't go back on his word. He nodded: "Alright!" He raised his hand to gouge out his own eyes.
"You can't! Nagato!" Yahiko grabbed Nagato's arm, then pulled a kunai from his ninja pouch, gripping it tightly against his heart. Looking at Kai, he said calmly: "Since your deal with Nagato was to save me, then if I die again, your transaction won't be complete, right!"
With that, Yahiko was about to thrust the kunai into his heart again. But after piercing his clothes, it couldn't penetrate even half an inch further.
"What's... happening!?" Yahiko looked up at Kai in shock.
"As long as you came back to life, my deal with Nagato is complete. Even if you die again, it's meaningless—it would only make me choose to forcibly take what I'm owed!" Kai said indifferently.
Then Kai looked at Yahiko with amusement: "Besides... without my permission, do you think you can actually die?"
Yahiko tried several more times but it was still futile. Looking at Kai with complete wariness, he asked: "What do you want to do after getting Nagato'sRinnegan?"
"If I said I want to bring lasting peace to this world, would you believe me?" Kai said casually.
"Can you... actually do it?" Yahiko's eyes showed deep doubt.
Kai didn't speak. Instead, an overwhelming aura erupted from his body as the sage chakra within stirred the forces of heaven and earth! In an instant, the entire sky was shrouded in dark clouds! Through his power alone, Kai had changed the celestial phenomena.
"This... is this something humans can actually do?" The three—Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan—were all horrified, looking at Kai as if gazing upon a deity.
Yahiko swallowed hard and asked instinctively: "Are you... a god?"
God!?
Kai froze, then thought: Since the Sage of Six Paths was called the god of the shinobi world, and his current power was in no way inferior to the Sage of Six Paths, calling himself a god wouldn't be excessive.
"God? Perhaps," Kai said casually.
Yahiko looked at Kai for a long moment, then turned to Nagato: "Nagato, give it to him."
"I'll take them myself," Kai said. Even if Yahiko hadn't stopped Nagato, Kai had planned to prevent Nagato's actions. Such crude removal of the Rinnegan might leave hidden complications.
Stopping Nagato's movements, Kai used attractive and repulsive forces to directly sever the flesh and blood vessels connecting Nagato'sRinnegan, then sealed the Rinnegan in a scroll.
"Very soon, the entire shinobi world will know peace," Kai said indifferently. Taking Hinata's hand, he gradually rose into the sky: "Farewell... if there's ever another chance."
Land of Fire, within a dense forest.
"Big brother, why do your eyes look different from before?" Hinata asked in her crisp voice.
Kai's pupils had indeed changed dramatically! In his blue-yellow eyes, concentric rings had appeared, with nine silver tomoe rotating within the patterns!
Rinne-Tenseigan!
Having absorbed the power of the Rinnegan, Kai's eyes had undergone a fundamental evolution, awakening the ultimate ocular power that even Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had failed to achieve—the Rinne-Tenseigan!
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