Alliance of Interests

It was now selling well throughout the Shinobi World, even better than some older electrical appliances.

He had truly achieved financial freedom.

If not for the matter in Rain Province this time, and Torikaze keeping him behind to assign him some tasks, he probably would have gone traveling long ago in search of the Child of Prophecy.

Prophecies were such vague, intangible things. If you chased after one, you might not find it even in your entire life.

But if you let things take their natural course, one day you might realize that the prophecy had actually been fulfilled long ago—it was just that you had failed to notice at the time.

Jiraiya simply placed too much importance on this prophecy, since it concerned him.

For the sake of one vague prophecy, Jiraiya had no idea how many disciples he had taken in during his travels.

Each time, he would use his strength to win the other person over, lecture them a little, teach them some grand principles, and point them toward the right path.

Jiraiya considered that enough to make them his disciples. He was remarkably casual about it.

But those people did not think of Jiraiya as their shishou at all. They merely saw him as someone fairly strong but mentally ill.

After some time passed, they forgot all about him.

The Child of Prophecy had yet to appear, but Jiraiya was not especially anxious.

Because he felt that, given the current state of the Shinobi World, it did not particularly matter whether the so-called Child of Prophecy appeared or not.

Jiraiya believed that even if the Child of Prophecy truly appeared, they might not do better than Torikaze.

The great nations of the entire Shinobi World now resembled one big family. It was not merely because they