A piercing sound.
Lin Nan stared at his chest in disbelief. A black rod was impaled there, and dark energy was spreading outwards madly.
"Senior!"
"Little Lin!"
The members of the Akatsuki organization rushed forward upon seeing this.
"Stop, don't attack!"
Lin Nan shouted.
"Heh heh! Your body is mine now!"
Higanbana revealed an extremely sinister smile, then, as if his soul had left his body, thick black energy erupted, instantly engulfing Lin Nan's entire form.
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
As Higanbana's body was taken away by Obito once more, Lin Nan's form began to transform.
He had merely turned into another person.
"How is this possible?"
This person was no longer Lin Nan, but his face was filled with extreme disbelief.
"Amaterasu!"
The next moment, Uchiha Itachi launched his attack, and black flames instantly engulfed him.
Dark energy spread again, as if drawn from this person's body, and the next moment, it flew away like a startled bird, drilling into the body of the Black Gold Nine-Tails.
"Clap clap clap!"
A round of applause sounded. Menma looked to see a figure appear not far away.
Upon closer inspection, it was Lin Nan.
"Not bad, quite a brilliant show. But it's a shame, Menma, 'I' am not someone who can be insulted so easily!"
Menma frowned, and after a moment of silence said, "When did you figure out that I was Menma, and not... you?"
Lin Nan walked over to the Akatsuki members and smiled kindly, "Actually, I couldn't figure out at first whether 'I' was controlling you, but your appearance today enlightened me; if I'm not mistaken, you had 'me' dress you like this, didn't you?"
Uzumaki Menma glanced at his clothes, his expressionless.
"And there's another 'me', do you have anything you want to say?" Lin Nan's smile widened.
A dark shadow slowly rose from the shadow behind Menma. Although its form was blurry and entirely black, one could faintly discern Lin Nan's outline.
"Heh heh..."
It was the same eerie sound, like a specter.
Lin Nan, however, found it amusing and looked at Menma, "Why don't you translate for me?"
Menma clearly wasn't in the mood and merely stared at Lin Nan with a pale face.
"What does this mean? What happened?" Obito stood behind Lin Nan, scratching his head.
Uchiha Itachi slowly explained, "The banquet of ill intentions is naturally not easy to attend, so Little Lin, to be safe, had the leader use the Shadow Clone Jutsu to replicate him. This thing cannot be distinguished from the original. As for what happened next, I didn't understand the situation either!"
"Little Lin, why don't you explain it to everyone?" Deidara asked.
Could this Lin Nan truthfully tell them that the black shadow was the Lin Nan of this world, and he himself was from another world?
So Lin Nan said, "That black shadow is my inner demon, it separated from my body. You could say it's another me. My previous disappearance was because it possessed my will!"
"So that's how it is!" Obito was the first to react.
"Did you understand?" Deidara was a bit confused.
Obito said, "No, but it sounds very powerful!"
Deidara's forehead creased. If the occasion weren't inappropriate, he would have likely used a scissor kick on Obito.
"Thank you, fellow colleagues, for your help here. Your kindness is beyond words. Obito, take Higanbana back first." Lin Nan spoke again.
"What about here?" Obito was a bit unwilling, but he ultimately left first.
"Brothers, it's time to form a team!"
Lin Nan looked at his former colleagues, and a complex emotion surged in his heart. The next moment, he began to rally them.
"Yoho!"
Hidan and Deidara immediately charged down.
Then the entire Akatsuki organization moved out.
Lin Nan had served in the Akatsuki for seven or eight years and had never once seen them fight as a team.
He never expected to witness such a rare scene on the second day of arriving in the Limited Tsukuyomi world. The early game ceiling, known for being invincible in team fights, capable of crushing everything.
However, now facing the Nine-Tails, they were below the late-game ceiling.
What kind of sparks would ignite?
Lin Nan waved his hand and activated his Perfect Susano'o.
Although the Black Gold Nine-Tails was massive and agile, it was still not easy to catch the Akatsuki members.
Therefore, from the very beginning, they were in a passive position, being beaten.
Deidara's art continuously bombarded them, Kakuzu used his Earth Grudge Fear from a distance to launch fierce attacks, and Sasori controlled his puppets for ranged attacks; Hidan, fearless, charged like an ant against a giant!
Since they were on a lake, Kisame was in his element, and a thousand sharks surged upwards.
Konan flew in the air, like an angel, continuously releasing paper needles.
Uchiha Itachi was even more outrageous. Discovering that the Black Gold Nine-Tails would discard chakra balls to dodge Amaterasu, he directly activated the third stage of Susano'o, equivalent to half the size of the Nine-Tails, and began to frantically absorb the Nine-Tails' chakra with the Totsuka Blade.
It looked like a half-grown child wielding a kitchen knife to hack at an adult.
What's more, Uchiha Itachi's Yata Mirror made the Black Gold Nine-Tails' attacks ineffective, so it could only dodge his slashes.
Meanwhile, Pain was directing the battle and wasn't holding back, which made Lin Nan a little unaccustomed.
As for Lin Nan, after activating his Perfect Susano'o, the black shadow had already reached outside his cockpit.
Without a host, the black shadow could not harm Lin Nan, so it just kept making "kekekeke" sounds.
"Why are you acting like a chicken?" Lin Nan picked at his ear. "You just want to know how I figured it out, right?"
"It's actually very simple. You were too deliberate. You are me. You knew I would come to this world a year later, so you started capturing the One-Tails, pretending to be about to perform an Edo Tensei, even dressing Menma up like in the movie, all to deceive me?"
"In reality, from beginning to end, you wanted to resurrect yourself easily, and there was no need to wait until now. This is your biggest mistake. In the end, it's because we're the same person, a clean freak, only lusting after my own body!"
"However, the fact that you could blacken Menma was something I didn't expect. For that, I can only say—worthy of me!"
Lin Nan smiled nonchalantly and then ignored this so-called self, directly piloting his Gundam towards the Nine-Tails.
When Lin Nan joined the fray, under the combined assault of the Akatsuki, Menma was quickly defeated.
Uchiha Itachi's Tsukuyomi could affect Naruto, even if he was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
With the battle here concluded, it was Lin Nan's turn.
However, dealing with his own "soul body" might be even simpler than Lin Nan imagined.
Didn't the Six Paths of Pain exist over there?