The dim-witted Gamadou fished one of Higashino Kanade's legs out from among the little toads and pulled him free from the mountain of tiny frogs.
"Damn, I'm covered in slime. It reeks~"
Higashino Kanade looked at his Red Cloud Robe with disgust, then helplessly waved his hand and forcibly sent all the little toads back to Mount Myōboku.
"Why did the Summoning Jutsu fail? Boss Bunta and I are on great terms. There's no reason he wouldn't come help me! Did something happen to Mount Myōboku?" Higashino Kanade frowned, sensing that something was wrong.
The Summoning Jutsu was an overbearing contract ninjutsu. Even if the summoned beast did not want to come, it would be forcibly summoned. There were only two situations in which a designated summoned beast could not be called.
First, the summoned beast had been sealed, like the Nine-Tails sealed inside Naruto. Uchiha Madara could not summon it.
Second, the summoned beast was dead. No matter what, a dead summoned beast could not be called forth.
"Could Boss Bunta be dead? No, even if he were dead, that amount of Chakra just now should have been enough to summon a giant toad on Boss Bunta's level. Could all the giant toads of Mount Myōboku be dead?"
Higashino Kanade's expression grew increasingly grim as a terrible possibility suddenly occurred to him.
Could the Naruto world's storyline have already reached the Boruto era, where the villains had wiped out all the giant toads of Mount Myōboku in one go?
Higashino Kanade had only watched a dozen or so episodes of Boruto in his first life before he could no longer stand it and dropped it. He had no idea what happened afterward, so he could only speculate.
"I should go back and take a look."
Higashino Kanade took out