"Wandering dragon returns to the sea, yet the sea refuses to welcome me, Jiraiya?"
"Tch, double-standard dog, Fukiyoseba!"
"Returns my ass. I even scattered your corpse and soul to the winds!"
Watching Jiraiya get brutally beaten to his end by his side's two strongest Double Red Flower Staff wielders, Tang Ping muttered under his breath.
When watching the anime, it had indeed been easy to get drawn in by the man's personal charm. But after coming to the real Shinobi World, it was hard to look at him the same way.
Because he possessed the Hokage Faction's infamous "double standard" trait.
No matter how much Konoha did wrong, it could be forgiven. But if anyone wanted to lay a hand on Konoha, that was absolutely unacceptable.
Did they really think Konoha was the darling of the Shinobi World?
No!
Wait, it actually was... Never mind, then.
As the Sage of Six Paths' most beloved "child," Konoha truly was the darling of the Shinobi World.
But that preferential treatment had already been weakened, if not eliminated altogether.
Konoha had once been the center of the Shinobi World because it enjoyed the Sage of Six Paths' favor.
But now, Tang Ping intended to drag even the Sage of Six Paths down with him. How could he possibly be unable to deal with a mere Konoha?
He had begun laying the groundwork long ago, and now he had finally caused its thousand-mile dike to collapse from an ant hole.
Quantitative change led to qualitative change!
If he had struck too ruthlessly in one go, the Sage of Six Paths would definitely have intervened.
The problem was that Tang Ping had not used brute force. He had been carving away flesh with a soft blade, never resolving Konoha in one stroke, but chipping