"Is that so? Just as I thought, this mission had no real meaning. If you planned to return to the village, you would have gone back long ago instead of wandering outside for over two years."
Kaedeji flung out a Summoning Scroll and summoned a zombie outside the Yellow Springs Marsh. Then, with one hand forming seals, he activated the Void Realm Technique and escaped the marsh's range.
Only that nameless zombie remained, thrashing about in the Yellow Springs Marsh before quickly being swallowed beneath it.
"This strange Space-Time Ninjutsu uses corpses as spatial coordinates to swap positions... Who were you fighting before this?" Jiraiya asked.
"There's no need for me to tell you that. Reporting my work to you isn't part of my mission. And there's no need to look at me like that. These expendables are all ninja from hostile villages. I'm not low enough to use my comrades' corpses in battle." Kaedeji brushed the mud from his clothes without looking up.
"That's true. If I found the faces of comrades among those corpses, you'd already be a rogue ninja. I would have killed you myself," Jiraiya said in a deep voice.
"Rogue ninja? That term carries far too much weight. Compared to me, someone who uses corpses in battle, Lord Jiraiya, your actions seem far more like those of a rogue ninja. You ran off for more than two years without a word. You couldn't even bring yourself to watch countless comrades die. What right do you have to criticize me?"
Kaedeji said coolly, "No matter how vile my jutsu may be, I've been contributing to the village. I've earned some achievements in battle and prevented some comrades from dying. What have you, a Hokage's disciple, been doing?"
Jiraiya fell silent. He could not refute him, nor