[ Week 2, Day 3] [video]
[ The video feed displays a giant rhino with Rinnegan eyes and piercings all throughout its body. On its back stands a small, female-looking figure that also has the Rinnegan and wears an Akatsuki cloak.
The Deva Path, Pain's main body, is looking somewhat disheveled. That body stands aside for a moment ( Read more... )
The Deva Path, Pain's main body, is looking somewhat disheveled. That body stands aside for a moment ( Read more... )
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She supposes she should say something.]
... in Raisato?
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[ Hm? This girl? What is she replying for? Should she not be battling hordes of monsters? ]
Yes, that is correct. I am answering a call of distress from a friend.
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Well, that's good. The situation here is pretty distressing.
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P-Pain! You said you're in Raisato, right?
I... I need help.
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They are certainly much more difficult to acquire and require far more personal upkeep.
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[ . . . What is this man bothering him about? ]
Those whom the bodies belong to?
They are my bodies. They belong to me. What concern is it of yours how I speak of my own bodies?
All ninja are objects and tools in the shinobi world. That is the first lesson a genin learns.
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I'm trying to get the shintai from this shrine - [She gestures towards a pile of fallen trees and bushes which, from her perspective, looks awfully like the ruins of the Hakurei shrine.] - and it's, uh, kind of important. But the shimenawa is still in the way, and it's too powerful. It keeps burning me every time I touch it.
You can touch things like that, right?
Right, right, you can. Anyway.
Maybe if I poke it away with a stick.
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[ He sees her. She is pointing at . . . at nothing. And calling it something. But Yukari is in no danger, that Pain can see. Then again, how could Yukari ever be in danger? Ah, but in this world, they are all in danger. All the time. They are living merely at the whims of the gods. Making their lives against impossible situations.
And it is comical, perhaps. That they fight for lives which will be revived should they perish. That they fight at all, when they cannot win. That they even live, in lives that are not their own. ]
Yukari, look at me.
Can you see me?
Where do I seem to be, to you?
I am right here now.
[ With an almost amused touch: ]
You thought I would die.
Yukari, always underestimating me . . .
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[ She is in a volatile condition right now. He must approach this with care and caution. Perhaps it will help: talking to her. Grounding her in reality. Humouring her, perhaps. What could be the harm in doing the latter? They have done this often enough. ]
With all of my eyes -- God's eyes, they have told me -- there is much that I can see.
But I have been unable to see what you have pointed out.
I wish I could view the world you look into.
[ If she is so out of her mind, perhaps she will not remember this later.
So he can be honest with her. ]
After all, it was you who taught me to see so many things that I never did before.
Therefore --
Therefore, I will try to open my eyes.
To see with you here.
[ So if the trunk is the problem . . .
. . . he simply tenseis it away. ]
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Nagato. Izuna and I have been fighting these monsters that are attacking our village. There does not seem to be an end to these.
[ No sooner does he say this, is his attention distracted by something coming from above. Madara grits his teeth, and the connection goes out. ]
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[ First Yukari, now Madara. This is not right. These are people who are not easily harmed. ]
I have been battling them as well.
I believe we must all gather in one area, Madara. I am with Yukari in Raisato now. Others are here. Are you able to travel at all?
[ Pain is thinking the answer might be a negative, to judge from how the connection faltered. ]
We need to gather in one area, if possible. As many of our allies as we can.
[ There is a time and a place for doing things on one's own, but this is not it. This is a pivotal moment for allies. ]
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I am of the opinion that the gods have unleashed this upon us to terrorize us. We must find a secure location, which will make it difficult for these monsters to reach us. Perhaps Tsuchisato may be a good place for us to convene in.
[ He does not say "retreat," for Madara dislikes that word. ]
My brother and I can be there shortly.
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Tsuchisato?
I will inform those I am with. Have you seen anyone besides your brother?
Yes, the gods are certainly terrorizing us. I hope those who believed the best of the gods are now seeing and feeling the truth for themselves.
Yukari is not well. She is having delusions.
[ And with her powers, that could become dangerous. ]
I will come to Tsuchisato once I have calmed her down.
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He even re-watches the broadcast.
Marco has seen strange and stranger things. After witnessing aliens invading the planet and inter- and multidimensional hippie taking him to world beyond and back in time, Marco can safely say that while nothing can surprise him, they most certainly takes his notice.
Like that big honking rhino for instance. Marco will definately like to acquire its DNA, to err on the safe side.
And those people with that Pain Rocky guy - there's definately up about them, something not human. But something is not right about this image. "I may wish to acquire another body."
Marco can only guess what that means. Now more than ever, he wishes Ax is here - he would at least give reasonable explanations of what is going on in this madhouse.]
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