"Lord Jiraiya, wait! The Hokage told me to give this scroll to you!"
The chunin who had run out hurriedly called after Jiraiya, who was about to leave.
"Hm? The old man has something for me? Strange, why didn't he give it to me just now?"
Though he said that, Jiraiya still accepted the scroll from the chunin.
It wasn't that the Third Hokage had deliberately failed to give Jiraiya the scroll earlier. He had simply been so irritated by Jiraiya that he forgot...
It was only after Jiraiya left that the Third Hokage remembered there was something he had forgotten to tell him.
With no other choice, he could only send one of his men after him.
After the chunin left, Jiraiya opened the scroll.
However, it contained neither a mission briefing nor a ninjutsu technique. It was merely a map.
"A map?"
A thousand questions sprang into Jiraiya's mind.
The Third Hokage had inexplicably sent him a map, leaving Jiraiya completely baffled.
"What does this mean? Is the old man telling me to make a trip to the place marked on this map?"
Wearing a puzzled expression, Jiraiya couldn't help muttering to himself.
His first instinct was to go back and ask the Third Hokage.
After all, he was still standing outside the Hokage Office Building. It would take less than five minutes to go back and ask.
But when he recalled the Third Hokage's furious expression after hearing that he was heading to the red-light district for writing inspiration, Jiraiya abandoned the thought.
He had no desire to go back and get another scolding from the Third Hokage.
"He's already so old, yet he still has so much fire in him when he scolds people. Looks like the old man can keep serving as Hokage for a