Secretary

"..."

Yinsen's words left Tsunade unsure how to respond. Moreover, she realized that Yinsen seemed remarkably familiar with the Hidden Leaf Village. Wasn't he just a Genin? How did he know these things?

"Smart people can infer many things from certain details."

As if he had guessed what Tsunade was thinking during her silence, Yinsen spoke at just the right moment.

"Besides... when so many things are done so blatantly, it's hard not to notice them..."

For some reason, Yinsen's calm words made Jiraiya feel even worse. Even a newly risen Genin could see it—had the Hidden Leaf Village's Dark Side become that obvious? Had his teacher truly been wrong to indulge that man time and again?

For one thing, the new generation's genius whom the Third Hokage valued had become wary of the Hidden Leaf Village because of certain actions by that man. No matter how one looked at it, that was not a good thing.

"Yinsen... many things aren't actually as simple as you think."

"No, many things are simple at their core."

All that talk about how complicated the world was was nonsense. This world had always been simple: whoever had the bigger fist could do whatever they wanted!

It was obvious that Yinsen had grown dissatisfied with that man. Jiraiya was now worried that this dissatisfaction would provoke Yinsen into making some extreme choice.

He worried that Yinsen would defect from the Hidden Leaf Village. In truth, Yinsen would never do that. If Danzo truly dared provoke him, he would simply go over and wipe out Danzo, his subordinates, and his entire clan.

As for whether the Hidden Leaf Village would hold him accountable afterward? At worst, he could claim he had acted under the Hokage's orders. That was also why Yinsen had chosen to cast