Chapter 157: Chapter 157 New York, Gone
Kanbei was the first to notice the abnormal situation. Sensing the unstoppable force, he immediately gave up resistance and swiftly fled towards the depths of the sea, following the remaining bay. It turned out that Kanbei's choice was correct. At this moment, tens of miles away from the coast, Kanbei, who had used up all his chakra to escape, was no longer able to maintain his half-shark form. Carrying the giant shark skin sword, he watched as the New York City area collapsed in patches and spread uncontrollably. His face was filled with blankness and disbelief.
The collapse eventually spread to the bay a few miles ahead, where countless buildings and landmasses fell into the sea. Those buildings and debris that did not fall into the sea surrounded the former location of New York City, forming a massive circular wall!
"What... What is this?" Kanbei stared blankly at everything in front of him. The countless building fragments pushed into the sea were barely a dozen meters in front of him. Kanbei could even see blood dripping along the shattered stones.
"Is this... a dream?" Kanbei murmured. Without thinking, he raised his hand and slapped himself to wake up. As he continued to witness the shocking scene before him, Kanbei clenched his teeth, hoisted the giant shark skin sword, and then infused chakra into it. With a few leaps, he climbed up the ruins tens of meters high.
Upon reaching the top of the ruins and looking forward, Kanbei was completely frozen. All that should have been the location of New York City had become completely empty, with no buildings or traces visible. The Stark Tower was gone, the Kanbei Building was gone, and even the Triskelion of S.H.I.E.L.D. was nowhere to be seen, let alone Times Square! All that remained was a bald patch of land, sunken like a giant hemisphere. Wherever his gaze fell, even to the end of his sight, not a single figure could be seen. New York City—vanished!
Unable to help himself, Kanbei took a few steps back and then knelt down on the ground. The giant shark skin sword in his hand slipped and fell with a clang onto the debris of the building. The once skeptical Kanbei thought that the leader's words were just "delusions" from a case of chuunibyou. But now, he understood. The leader of the Akatsuki organization he belonged to—Pain Rikudou—truly possessed the power to make New York, and even the United States, feel pain!!
At this moment, Kanbei completely surrendered. From the inside out, he wholeheartedly submitted to the Akatsuki organization and its leader, Pain Rikudou. Then, in this complex emotion, Kanbei looked up slowly to the sky. He saw that the white light in the sky had disappeared, and a figure was floating there, slowly descending towards the ground—that was the figure of Pain Rikudou!
At this moment, what echoed in Kanbei's mind were Pain Rikudou's words that reverberated in his ears, as well as the scenes of the entire New York City disappearing. Feel the pain, consider the pain, accept the pain, understand the pain...
As a native New Yorker, Kanbei was very clear about what New York meant to the United States. Although not the capital like Washington, D.C., New York, as the almost capital, was of great significance. New York was the largest city and port in the United States. The New York metropolitan area was one of the largest urban areas in the world, alongside London and Shanghai, known as the "NYLON" port. New York also wielded tremendous influence in commerce and finance. The financial district of New York, led by Lower Manhattan and Wall Street, was known as the world's financial center. Among the Fortune 500 companies, 17 were headquartered in New York. The New York Stock Exchange was the world's second-largest stock exchange, having been the largest until its trading volume was surpassed by NASDAQ in 1996. Times Square, located at the hub of the Broadway theater district, was known as the "Crossroads of the World" and was also one of the centers of the global entertainment industry. Manhattan's Chinatown was the most densely populated Chinese enclave in the Western Hemisphere. New York was also home to prestigious universities such as Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University.
But even with all these attributes, New York was still directly destroyed by Pain Rikudou, the leader. It can be imagined that from now on, the United States, and even the entire world, would feel the pain firsthand!
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