Naruto: Starting from the time when the Six Paths of Pain was Kira Yoshikage

At each of the four corners of the room sat a powerful ninja, the last remaining force of Amegakure—Hanzo's Guard.

Hanzo himself was hiding in this room.

With four soft 'crack' sounds, the secret room fell silent again.

Hanzo's guard was indeed quite strong, consisting of powerful ninjas. However, this strength was relative. Compared to Pain, they were no different from the group of Rain Ninja they had just killed.

There wasn't even time to sound an alarm.

Instant kill.

It has to be said that Tao Pai Pai's silent killing technique is quite useful.

While Tao Pai Pai may not be as numerous as Nagato, he is a first-rate killer when it comes to killing skills. He can easily take down opponents far weaker than himself.

Pain's gaze slowly fell on the tightly closed room, where only Hanzo himself remained.

The moment the door was slowly opened, Hanzo almost instinctively sprang up from the bed, still wearing the diving suit unique to Amegakure.

"Koji, I told you not to disturb my rest unless it's absolutely necessary!"

With bloodshot eyes, Hanzo shouted sharply, his hoarse voice coming from his breathing mask, filled with intense killing intent.

Since that battle, Hanzo has been plagued by nightmares, unable to sleep at night and only able to doze off during the day.

"I don't think they can hear me anymore."

The sound of the strange man's voice made Hanzo's heart skip a beat.

"Who goes there?!"

Hanzo stared at Payne with a grim expression. The thing he least wanted to happen had happened: four powerful guards had been killed silently, and he himself in the room hadn't even noticed.

This already speaks volumes.

A big problem has arisen.

If the opponent chooses to launch a sneak attack...

Without any hesitation, Hanzo instantly entered battle mode.

Pain, however, seemed oblivious, staring directly at Hanzo and saying, "The one who will take your life."

His tone was very calm, as if he were recounting a trivial matter.

"You're asking for it!" Hanzo roared.

With a whooshing sound, a scythe came hurtling toward Pain's left.

Hanzo launched an attack immediately.

Unfortunately, his attack did not achieve the desired effect; the scythe blade was deflected the moment it touched Pain.

It wasn't Shinra Tensei, but rather an attack from the Stand summon, Gray Tower.

An attack of this magnitude is not worth Payne's time to respond.

Although it was a sneak attack, Hanzo didn't expect to succeed in one blow. With a 'whoosh' sound of metal being dragged, several black shadows attacked Pain from the opposite direction of the attack.

That's the chain behind the scythe weapon Hanzo used!

As a legendary ninja renowned in the ninja world, Hanzo not only possessed extremely high attainments in ninjutsu, but was also proficient in taijutsu, swordsmanship, and poison techniques. His swordsmanship alone demonstrated a level of skill that completely overwhelmed Mifune, the leader of the samurai of the Land of Iron.

He can be considered one of the most powerful regular ninjas.

But this time his opponent was no mediocre either.

Faced with the countless chains that bound him, Pain didn't even bother to move.

The chains were once again stopped by an unseen attack, but this time it was not the work of the Gray Tower, but a defensive network formed by the Yellow Restraint.

Pain, of course, wouldn't just wait for Hanzo to attack without doing anything. With a flick of his right hand, a black rod appeared in his palm, which he threw at Hanzo with a very smooth motion.

These black rods are a product of Yin-Yang Release techniques; even the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki would instantly lose their fighting ability if hit by them.

But the prerequisite is that the shot must hit.

The moment the black rod touched Hanzo's body, the latter turned into a puddle of water and disappeared on the spot.

"Water Instantaneous Body"

Hanzo's most skilled ninjutsu.

As a legendary ninja living in the ninja world, the most important thing is to be fast.

At least if you can't win, you can run away.

Hanzo's mastery of the Water Instantaneous Body Technique was unparalleled, rivaling even the future Uchiha genius known as Shisui of the Instantaneous Body Technique.

Even the Gray Tower, known for its speed, couldn't keep up with its opponent's speed.

In just a few rounds of combat, Hanzo successfully dodged the attacks of his substitute summoning beasts multiple times using the "Water Body Flicker".

Even the most agile players can make mistakes.

"above..."

The moment Pain dodged the Gray Tower's attack once again, he sensed Hanzo's location in advance. At the same time, a muffled sound came from above, and Hanzo appeared above Pain, wielding a scythe and slashing down with the force of splitting a mountain.

"Sword Technique: Chain Scythe Double Strike!"

Hanzo's blade was coated with a deadly poison; even the slightest touch would be fatal.

Poisoning and antidote are actually the standard battles between ninjas; the later battles with random energy blasts are beyond the scope of the game.

Before Hanzo's attack even arrived, the yellow Temperance beside Pain transformed into a sharp blade at an even faster speed to meet it.

A "poof" sound rang out in the air, but what appeared was not Hanzo being attacked by Yellow Restraint. The moment Yellow Restraint touched the opponent's body, Hanzo once again turned into a puddle of water and disappeared.

A series of consecutive Water Instantaneous Movements!

Or rather, the second stage of Water Instantaneous Body Technique!

"You can't use those invisible attacks continuously, can you?"

This time, the sound came from directly in front of Pain.

Hanzo appeared less than a meter in front of Pain, his right hand holding a scythe as he pierced through Pain at lightning speed.

"Sword Technique: Iaijutsu!"

Iaijutsu, also known as a draw sword slash, is a technique that attacks the opponent at extremely high speed.

Its main characteristics are speed and ruthlessness.

A swift and decisive kill before the opponent can react!

In Hanzo's eyes, he and Pain had engaged in multiple offensive and defensive battles in a short period of time, exchanging more than one wave of skills. Through these continuous attacks, he roughly calculated the gaps in Pain's attacks, which led to his sudden Iai attack.

Hanzo's previous Water Instant Dodge wasn't just for evasion!

It was no coincidence that Pain was able to sense the attack location above in advance.

It was Hanzo who did it on purpose.

This was all for the sake of a perfect, head-on kill! This is the tactic of a veteran ninja!

Such a smooth combo would be enough to kill any ordinary ninja.

Unfortunately, his opponent was not among the ordinary ninjas.

That's Pain, the Deva Path of Pain.

Hanzo miscalculated one thing... a very important thing: those attacks he couldn't see didn't come from Pain, but were all autonomous attacks from the Stand summons, which Pain hadn't even controlled.

In reality, Pain only ever swung out a single black rod from beginning to end.

Because he couldn't see it, Hanzo made the wrong judgment.

Pain's attention was always focused on Hanzo.

Hanzo's "Water Instantaneous Body" was never hidden from him from beginning to end; in fact, it was done right under his nose.

Including this sudden face-to-face confrontation!

so...

Just as Hanzo thought he had secured victory, Pain slightly raised his hand.

"Spicy Tensei (Shinra Tensei)!"