"You are...!?"
When Hanzo saw the face of the man in front of him clearly, his expression suddenly became horrified.
He looked at the man in disbelief and asked in surprise, "Are you Yahiko?"
Although the man's appearance had changed a little compared to before, Hanzo would never mistake this face. The leader of the Akatsuki organization that was destroyed by him, Yahiko!
"This is impossible!" Hanzo shook his head to deny it, as he had seen Yahiko die in front of him with his own eyes. But the man in front of him was definitely Yahiko!
While Hanzo looked shocked and uncertain, the man in front of him seemed very calm.
"I have already said it before, I am God." There were circles of rippling patterns in the man's extremely strange purple eyes.
"Whoever you are, why did you attack me? What is your purpose?" Hanzo quickly recovered from his suspicious mood and looked at the man in front of him with vigilance.
At the same time, he noticed the biggest difference of this man suspected to be "Yahiko."
"Those eyes..." Hanzo had been in the ninja world for decades, but he had never seen such strange eyes.
After taking a closer look, his face suddenly trembled, and he said in a horrified voice: "Could it be the legendary Rinnegan?"
When Nagato was involved in Akatsuki's activities in the past, he always covered his face, so it was not until today that Hanzo saw the Rinnegan for the first time. With Hanzo's experience and knowledge, he quickly figured out the origin of this pair of strange eyes.
"You don't need to know," the man couldn't answer his question, but slowly raised his arm and looked at Hanzo. "Next, accept God's punishment!"
"Buzz!"
The moment he finished speaking, Hanzo suddenly felt as if his body was being pulled by an irresistible force, causing him to temporarily lose control of his body. At the same time, the black-robed man's other hand stretched out from his wide sleeves, and in his palm, he held a black rod.
In such a situation, an ordinary person might not be able to react in time, but Hanzo's reflexes were so good that he was able to engage in close combat with Minato. He quickly pulled out the samurai sword hanging at his waist, and slashed several times in succession with his body almost out of control.
"Zheng! Zheng! Zheng!"
The sharp blade light immediately tore through the air. Two of the slashes deviated from their trajectory, but the remaining three slashed towards the man in the black robe.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
The latter held a black rod and waved it repeatedly to block the sword strikes. But at the same time, he also had to give up pulling Hanzo.
Swish!
After regaining control of his body, Hanzo suddenly retreated. After putting some distance between them, he stopped backing away, his eyes trembling, staring at the black-robed man in front of him, and said, "You are one of the people who attacked Konoha several years ago!"
After the masked man and others attacked Konoha, Minato had, after careful consideration, first blocked the news. However, in the following few years, Konoha could not find any information about the masked man and the others.
And Minato knew that these people's goals were not just for himself or Konoha. So, about a year ago, Minato deliberately let the Konoha ninja spread information about the abilities of the masked man and others who attacked the village that night.
It had been seven or eight years since that war, but the relationship between countries, especially between Konoha and the Hidden Cloud Village, had not easily eased. After all, the previous Raikage died at the hands of the current Hokage. So Minato had no choice but to convey the information in this way.
As the leader of the Rain Village, Hanzo could naturally obtain this information. Therefore, he instantly deduced the identity of the man in front of him.
"Haha, you are worthy of being a former demigod. You are really not simple." The man in the black robe suddenly laughed, as if praising Hanzo.
Hanzo's face was solemn and somewhat doubtful.
"Something's not right." He thought to himself that on the floor where he was, there were more than a dozen Rain Ninjas as guards. Even if those guys were killed by the man in front of him before, the fact that this guy just used his ability to push objects away to destroy the room should have caused some noise.
Shouldn't the ninjas from the Rain Village have had some reaction? So, this guy in front of him must have an accomplice! Could it be that they are the ones who attacked Konoha with him that night?
Thinking of this, Hanzo's heart trembled violently. Although he was arrogant, he knew better than anyone how powerful Konoha was several years ago. These guys were able to escape unscathed from the hands of many powerful men in Konoha, led by Minato Namikaze. He alone was no match for them.
Even though the Rain Village was his territory, Hanzo still had the idea of retreating. The man in front of him was looking at him so calmly, and it seemed as if he had seen through all of Hanzo's thoughts.
"You can think this far, so you should be very clear about it. Today, you can't escape." The man in the black robe formed seals with his hands, and the surroundings of the house where he and Hanzo were became covered with barrier patterns.
"Not good!" Hanzo's expression suddenly changed, and then he retreated violently and jumped upwards. He had to escape from the barrier before it closed completely.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Just as Hanzo jumped up, several figures suddenly appeared above his head. One of them extended his sleeves and many steel cables shot out.
Hanzo's pupils suddenly shrank, and he waved the samurai sword in his hand, trying to resist. However, at the same time, several other people, like the previous black-robed man, stretched out their arms from under their sleeves, holding the same black rods in their palms.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
Hanzo fought one against five, and the battle was fierce in mid-air. In the end, all six of them landed safely.
"Huff... huff..."
Hanzo was surrounded by five people, and his breathing seemed a little rapid. The skills of each of these people were not as good as his, but with the five of them working together, although he was not injured for the time being, he had also consumed a lot of physical strength.
He glanced left and right, his whole body tense. However, when he saw the faces of these people clearly, horror appeared on his face. Because their eyes were actually the Rinnegan! The legendary dōjutsu that only the Sage of Six Paths possessed.
How could there be so many!
The five people who surrounded him did not launch an attack for a while. The man in the black robe walked slowly towards him and stopped in front of Hanzo.
At this moment, a hint of murderous intent emerged in his eyes, which had always been calm.
"I will never forget Yahiko's pain. The one who brought him pain was you."
When Hanzo heard this, his face suddenly changed and his voice trembled. "You are indeed..."
The man in the black robe raised his arm again and shouted in a deep voice:
"Banshō Ten'in!" (Universal Pull)
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