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“You were the one that challenged Pein.”
Konan remembers her quite vividly: The one person brave enough to challenge Nagato to a battle that could not be won. At the time, Konan had found the woman to be foolish for attempting such an impossible feat. But she’d had time to reflect since then. And realize that she had done the very same thing for someone she loved. . For 20 years. For 20 years, she bent over backwards trying to accomplish an impossible feat for Nagato; Teach the world peace through pain.
Of course, this girl’s attempt at an impossible feat had been more fruitful. Indeed, she did not succeed in defeating Pein, but her sacrifice had ‘saved’ one she loved and in turn, he saved the day— And the enemy; Konan had been saved that day.
And it was all because of the girl in front of her. The real hero to the story.
Wordlessly, Konan extends a hand as thin slips of paper coil around it like a snake. The form a cone and, eventually, flower-buds. A bouquet. Konan poses a question she already feels she knows the answer to. “Do you recognize that you are the hero?”