Naruto 379

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Naruto
#379: Jiraiya's Choice
[side text: Shock. Quake. Despair. Even Jiraiya is forced to say, "Pein... what exactly is he?"]

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[insert text: Finally, it's one-on-one... Jiraiya moves onward towards victory!!]
Pein: Ugh... I can't move. // !

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Jiraiya: I'm not giving you a chance to summon!
Pein: Ugh!

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Pein: ! // ! // ! // He got us, huh......?
Jiraiya: You're inside a binding genjutsu that entraps the mind completely. // Now your bodies won't be able to move about.

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Pein: Jiraiya-sensei... to think you knew a genjutsu like this.
Jiraiya: I'm sure I taught you this, Nagato... / ...but you must be prepared for anything, no matter the opponent. // Nagato... / You got your role all wrong.

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Flashback!Nagato: I just want to protect the two of them. // No matter how much pain it brings me to do that.
Flashback!Jiraiya: ...I see.
Jiraiya: ...Rather than guiding the world through pain, // I wanted you to use your power to surpass pain, and change the world without it.
Pein: .........

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Flashback!Elder: That student will one day become one who brings about great change in the world of shinobi. // He will bring about either a peace such as the world has never known... or else its destruction. // One of these two.
Jiraiya: For a short while... / I believed that it referred to you. // Farewell...
Pein: !

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Pein: Ugh.........ngh...

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Jiraiya: ......... // It's over...
Mother: *cough*... *cough*...
Jiraiya: !
Father: *cough*...!
Jiraiya: Are you two all right?!
Father: That genjutsu song isn't very easy on the throat.
Mother: Having to keep time with Tou-chan is a real pain... / This isn't a simple little thing to pull off! // My throat hurts like hell! Hy lower jaw is all slack from stretching! / I'm going to get wrinkles!!
Jiraiya: Well, I'm sorry about that... // You should take some well-earned rest. // Right now... // My choice has been made.

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Pein: I'm sure you taught me that I must be prepared for anything... // ...Jiraiya-sensei.

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Jiraiya: Ugh...

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Mother: Kid! Your left arm was...!!
Jiraiya: I'm aware of that...
Father: What's going on?!!
Jiraiya: His face is different from the three we were facing before... / I can only presume he summoned another in advance...
Father: ...I see... / Before he got caught in our genjutsu...!
Pein: Now, then...

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Jiraiya: !

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Pein: The Pein Rikudou... // ...are hereby assembled.

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Jiraiya: .........
Father: Six of them...?! // There are six of them...?!
Mother: ?!! / Hey, take a close look! The three you defeated before have come back!!
Jiraiya: He revived them with one of the new summons' jutsu or something......?!
Mother: A jutsu that could bring three dead men completely back to life?!! // Are these guys really human?!!
Jiraiya: ...Pein... // What exactly are you...?!

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Pein: Pein... // That name refers to the six of us.
Jiraiya: But why... Why do all six of you have the "Rinnegan"...?! // !! // Y... You...
[side text: Six users of the Rinnegan... that is Pein's shocking identity! And Jiraiya's eyes have grasped another shocking truth. What could it be...?!!]
[bottom text: The battle of master and student reaches its shocking conclusion! Next issue, "That Which Is Called Pein"!!]