Akatsuki's Revenge!

Hokage Office!

Even at night, Jiraiya still had a mountain of work to handle. Suddenly, he stopped writing and looked toward a corner of the room.

Because something that had not been there before had appeared there.

"Lord Hokage!"

Uchiha Itachi stepped out.

"You?"

Jiraiya lowered his hand, abandoning the attack he had been preparing.

As for this S-rank missing-nin, the village had not lifted its wanted notice. It also continued to insist that everything in My Struggle was false, and that the village had nothing whatsoever to do with the Uchiha clan massacre.

Whether anyone believed that was another matter. As long as they themselves believed it, that was enough.

However, quite a few people in the village knew the truth—that what the book said was real.

They simply saw through it without saying so.

Once it was spoken aloud, it would damage the reputation of the Hokage Faction and the village. Thus, everyone tacitly helped maintain the lie.

As the new Hokage, Jiraiya naturally knew about Itachi.

Thus, guilt and pity coexisted in his heart.

It was precisely because Danzo and his own teacher had forced him that the other man had been left with no choice but to turn his blade against his own clan.

"It is."

Itachi nodded lightly.

If it was him, then silently infiltrating the Hokage Office was only natural.

Leaving aside his familiarity with the Hokage Building and the Anbu, his strength alone was enough to let him accomplish it.

"I'm sorry about Sasuke..."

Jiraiya apologized first.

The other man had entrusted his only younger brother to the village, yet Sasuke had been lost under his watch.

"That was his choice. It has nothing to do with the village. I came this time to warn you, Lord Hokage."

Itachi did not blame the