Naruto: I, who didn't want to be hacked to pieces, saved the ninja world.

For some reason, such an absurd idea suddenly popped into her head.

Then her gaze unconsciously fell on Bai Yunqingye, who was walking ahead.

She knew that the other person was the bond that held this relationship together.

Although Kurotsuchi wasn't Shirakumo Aoba's girlfriend, their interactions suggested they were very good friends.

She then thought of the information about Baiyun Qingye.

Could it be that a kind and innocent boy is using this method to bring peace to the ninja world?

Using himself as a medium, he became a bridge between ninja villages.

A bridge to peace in the ninja world...

It was a very naive idea, but he seems to have actually taken the first step.

This made her start to think about Bai Yun Qingye's purpose in inviting her out...

Although Pain is the leader of Amegakure, she actually manages the entire village.

She can also decide the future of Amegakure.

Looking at Shirakumo Aoba and Terumi Mei, who were practically glued together, Konan's fair and cool face flushed slightly.

Could it be that Bai Yun Qingye actually has his eye on her and wants her to join his team?

Thinking of this, Xiao Nan shook her head again.

As she shook off the thought, her face became even rosier.

She wasn't feeling shy, but rather ashamed.

She's a woman in her thirties, yet she's imagining a boy almost twenty years younger than her falling in love with her.

The other person probably just wanted to build a good relationship with her, like that guy Heitu, just as a very good friend.

If she were an ordinary Amegakure ninja, she might also be willing to try this path of peace.

But she is a member of the Akatsuki organization.

Peace is her pursuit, and it is also the pursuit of the Akatsuki organization.

The only difference is that the two sides achieve peace in completely different ways.

She knew what Nagato was thinking.

They also knew his purpose in collecting the tailed beasts.

Nagato plans to combine the power of the nine tailed beasts to create a tailed beast weapon capable of destroying a country in an instant.

Then use this weapon as a deterrent, causing hundreds of millions of lives to vanish in an instant.

This will instill fear in people's hearts, deterring major powers from waging war and leading the ninja world towards peace.

Unlike Shirayuki Aoba's approach of mutual understanding, Nagato and the Akatsuki organization believed in absolute violence.

Because they already know that it is impossible for people to truly understand each other.

For this, they paid the most painful price.

The Akatsuki organization needs tailed beasts, while Konoha happens to possess the Nine-Tails, and given their current plans, they are destined to become enemies...

Although they were on different paths, she didn't dislike people like that.

Because they used to be like that too.

However, Shirokumo Aoba now wants to understand her and become friends, but she plans to release the tailed beast in the other's village and instigate a war.

Thinking of this, Xiao Nan felt lost again.

She seems to have become the very thing she used to hate the most.

"Ouch!"

Suddenly, a little girl holding a candied hawthorn skewer stumbled and bumped into her leg.

She took a step back and almost fell to the ground, but Bai Yunqingye caught her.

The little girl raised her head and thanked Bai Yunqingye, "Thank you, big brother!"

"You're welcome." Bai Yunqingye smiled and patted her head.

The little girl looked at Xiao Nan again, opened her arms, and bowed sincerely in apology.

"I'm sorry, big sister, I bumped into you by accident."

Xiao Nan snapped out of her reverie and quickly waved her hand, saying, "You don't need to apologize. I was thinking about something and got distracted."

The little girl looked at Xiao Nan with innocent eyes again.

"Big sister, are you in a bad mood?"

"This……"

Xiao Nan didn't know how to answer.

She wasn't good at dealing with such enthusiastic children, like Baiyun Qingye who insisted on giving her an umbrella yesterday.

"No~"

The little girl suddenly pouted, looking at the candied hawthorn in her hand with a conflicted expression.

"Little friend, you..."

Xiao Nan thought the other person was injured and wanted to ask, but the little girl suddenly handed her the candied hawthorn in her hand.

"Big sister, please have a candied hawthorn!"

"Eating candied hawthorn makes me feel better. I eat candied hawthorn whenever I'm sad."

Xiao Nan was stunned.

She stared blankly at the little girl who handed her the candied hawthorn.

The bright sunlight shone through the treetops and fell on the little girl's innocent face.

Her eyes were clearly filled with reluctance and inner turmoil, but it was precisely this reluctance that made her feelings even purer.

Those dark, bright eyes seemed to be conveying some kind of message to her.

Xiao Nan sensed the pure innocence and beauty in the little girl's innocent eyes.

Between people...

Perhaps we can understand each other.

The idea suddenly rekindled in her mind.

"Th-thank you, but I don't need this."

Xiao Nan shook her head in refusal; she felt her throat was dry as she spoke.

Please accept this.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman, presumably the little girl's mother, walked over and looked at Xiao Nan with a smile on her face.

"Consider it a gift from the child to apologize to you."

Chapter 232 Xiao Nan's Reminder

"This……"

Xiao Nan was still somewhat hesitant.

"Here you go, beautiful big sister."

But the little girl shoved the candied hawthorn into Xiao Nan's hand and then turned and ran into her mother's arms.

The mother, holding the little girl, smiled gently and bowed slightly to Xiao Nan, saying, "It seems this child likes you very much. I believe you are a kind person too."

Xiao Nan's eyes trembled slightly, "A kind person... am I really?"

When she came to her senses again, the mother had already left with the little girl.

Despite the sweltering heat, and holding the candied hawthorn skewer the little girl had given her, Xiao Nan felt utterly bitter, as if she had fallen into an icy abyss…

Regardless, she is now pushing Konoha toward destruction.

When Rasa attacks Tsunade, the Tailed Beasts will appear in Konoha, thus hindering Konoha's fighting force.

If no one stops the out-of-control tailed beast.

Everything in Konoha Village will be destroyed, and countless villagers will die.

Soon, everyone here may die, including that cute little girl from earlier... and her mother.

How many Konoha villagers will survive then?

...Everything here will disappear.

How piercing the sunlight must have been then.

Xiao Nan looked up blankly, her eyes inadvertently catching sight of a middle-aged pregnant woman clutching her stomach.

The maternal glow emanating from her made her take notice.

Xiao Nan suddenly fell into a deep panic again, and found it hard to breathe.

She is called an angel, but she brings destruction.

She seemed to be hallucinating, with a burning inferno overlapping with the bustling commercial street of today.

The laughter and joy around her turned into desperate wails, constantly questioning why she didn't stop it all.

For the first time, Xiao Nan struggled between her ideal of peace and the goodness of human nature.

She somewhat regretted accepting the task that Nagato had given her.

If she hadn't accepted this mission and hadn't come to Konoha, she wouldn't be in so much pain today, no matter what Konoha would become.

Only those who are not thoroughly bad, nor purely good, suffer the most.

"Sister Xiao Nan, are you alright?"

A gentle, sunny voice rang in Xiao Nan's ears.