LRAB Chapter 86 As long as I haven't lost!
Chapter 86 As long as I haven't lost!
Chapter 86 As long as I haven't lost!
They followed Xiangye to a makeshift house, where Xiaonan was also inside.
Nagato, alone, hugged her knees and curled up by the bedside near the window, looking fragile and helpless.
At this moment, he looks very different from the fanatical terrorist who claimed to be a god in the original story.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, the flavor seemed to match up again.
"I am calm and not being controlled! This is my own thought!"
If we want peace, the world must first experience suffering! Otherwise, those people will never understand us!
Kaori Uzumaki turned her head and looked at Kiyokazu Shiba with a helpless and haggard expression. She explained, "He didn't sleep a wink last night. He thought about it all night, and this is how he ended up this morning. We couldn't persuade him to stay calm."
Well, you figured this out after staying up all night?
However, compared to the original work, the current Nagato has lost much of his obsession and madness.
Although he still gets stuck on trivial details, at least he hasn't had that episode of standing in the sky to carry rice again.
Konan then looked at Shiba Kiyokawa with a pleading expression, about to say, "Kiyokawa, please help persuade Nagato, Osamu—"
Xiao Nan was about to say, "Be gentler."
Before he could finish speaking, Shiba Kiyokawa stepped forward, grabbed Nagato by the collar, lifted him up, and then slammed his head hard against Nagato's forehead.
"Thump!"
A clear, pleasant sound indicates a good head.
Xiao Nan's remaining words caught in her throat, and she gave a helpless, bitter smile.
However, he didn't step forward to stop them.
Nagato was so stunned by the headbutt that he saw stars and it took him a while to come to his senses. He then heard Shiba Kiyokawa ask calmly.
Are you more awake now?
"I……"
"How could I say I wasn't sober?" Nagato looked at him with a pitiful expression.
"You drag the world down with you just because you're going through a little setback? What's wrong with the world? What has the world done to you? Does the world owe you anything?"
Then, Shiba Kiyokawa bombarded Nagato with a barrage of questions, leaving him speechless.
Shiba Kiyokawa continued, "You clearly saw who the enemy was yesterday! That person was Shimura Danzo, the commander of Konoha Root!"
The enemy is right there!
Why don't you seek revenge on him and make him pay? Why do you have to take your anger out on innocent people and seek revenge on the whole world? Did the rain yesterday make you lose your mind?!
Nagato was stunned by the scolding, and his morale plummeted.
At this moment, he no longer called himself a god, and even spoke in a soft, pitiful voice.
"But I'm doing this to achieve peace..."
Shiba Kiyokawa laughed loudly, "Ha! Peace? Is peace some kind of panacea, some kind of cure-all?"
"What?" Nagato was stunned, puzzled.
Yahiko, and even Jiraiya in the past, have always regarded peace as their ultimate pursuit. Influenced by them, Nagato also has a deep belief in peace.
But now, Shiba Kiyokawa has given him a completely different kind of shock!
"If a world order collapses, morality declines, bad people do evil without paying the price, those who have tasted pain only know how to transfer the harm to the innocent, and kind ordinary people do nothing but have to bear the greatest malice!"
Even if such a world achieves peace, what then? It will still be a rotten world, a cage imprisoning everyone in the name of peace!
Shiba Kiyokazu's questions directly point to the biggest flaw in Nagato's "deterrence and peace theory"!
Peace brought about by deterrence comes at the cost of suppressing humanity!
If it is not guided by a proper new order, then this peace forged by tyranny will only bring deeper harm.
Nagato was completely stunned by Shiba Kiyokawa's attack.
"Have you forgotten the organization's motto I taught you? We fight for a bright and beautiful tomorrow! Not just for some bullshit peace!"
What is good? Good is when the innocent are not implicated! Good is when those who do evil pay the price!
If those who commit evil and wrongdoing always escape unscathed, while those with power only vent their pain on the innocent, who will respect the rules of our Akatsuki organization in the long run?!
Nagato's expression changed repeatedly, his face contorted in a grimace. He tried to speak several times, but couldn't find the right words to refute her.
His verbal sparring was completely overwhelmed.
After a long while, he finally managed to find some scattered teachings from the depths of his memory to support himself.
"But wouldn't constantly indulging in revenge lead to an endless spiral of hatred?"
Shiba Kiyokawa immediately let out an unusually loud sneer, "This must have been something Jiraiya taught you years ago, right?"
Nagato nodded weakly.
Shiba Kiyokawa guessed it right away.
This is because this statement is exactly the same as the theory that Naruto later insisted on in the original work, showing that they are of the same lineage.
In the story, Naruto in the future is talking to himself about the spiral of hatred, and then before the Five Kage Summit, he goes alone to kneel down before the Fourth Raikage, begging him not to seek revenge on Sasuke.
At that time, Naruto mistakenly believed that Sasuke had killed Killer Bee, the close friend of Raikage A.
Although it was later proven to be a misunderstanding, this scene still left a very deep impression on Shiba Kiyokawa at the time, in a negative way.
He considered all this talk of a spiral of hatred to be utter nonsense!
"What's so difficult about breaking the spiral of hatred? You're a perfect example of that."
"Me?" Nagato pointed blankly at himself.
"Yes, it's you." Shiba Kiyokawa nodded and said, "You are from the Uzumaki clan. Who in your Uzumaki clan still remembers the hatred of the destruction of your country and the extermination of your race?"
In a few years, this ninja world will probably be so desolate that not even a trace of your existence will remain. What's the point of talking about a spiral of hatred then?
These words deeply stung Nagato, but they also jolted him awake from his muddled thinking.
"So you see." Shiba Kiyokawa spread his hands, speaking the most sensational words in the most indifferent tone.
"The method to sever the spiral of hatred was already demonstrated to you by the Great Ninja Village many years ago—as long as you nip it in the bud and kill all those who hold grudges, the spiral of hatred will be nothing but smoke in the wind in a few years."
"hiss--"
The sound of air conditioning being drawn out filled the room again.
They made outstanding contributions to warming the ninja world.
Standing a little further away, Uzumaki Kaori couldn't help but tug at Konan's sleeve and whispered, "Kiyokawa-kun said he was fighting for the good, but now he says he'll kill all his enemies. Why is there such a big difference between his words?"
Xiao Nan gave a helpless yet composed smile, as if she had long been used to it and was no longer surprised, and said, "That's just the kind of person he is."
He was a man who was difficult to distinguish between good and evil, a man who was both righteous and wicked, a ruthless strategist who had lofty ideals but would stop at nothing to achieve his goals!
But at the same time, he is a leader worthy of being followed by himself and everyone else—Xiao Nan silently added this sentence in her heart!
Nagato was still hesitant: "But wouldn't this cause more conflict?"
At this moment, Shiba Kiyokawa had already stood up. Before leaving, he turned his back to Nagato and made a final, elegant statement.
"So what? I didn't start this Ninja World War! Besides, as long as I haven't lost, no one can judge me!"
(End of this chapter)