"Is this the bond between the Konoha Sannin? Going by my intuition as a woman, if that Jiraiya manages to come back alive this time, he'll probably win the beauty's heart."
Hearing Mei Terumi mutter softly beside him, Seiya watched Jiraiya's retreating back and silently mourned for him for a few more seconds.
With two lifelong single beauties of the Hokage world raising such flags, Jiraiya probably didn't stand a chance...
"What's with that strange expression? Don't you trust a woman's intuition?"
Seeing Seiya's complicated expression, Mei Terumi assumed he doubted her feminine intuition.
"No, no, your intuition is naturally fine. I just hope that if I ever have to fight someone to the death, you won't say anything weird to me."
"What weird things?"
"Things like, 'When you come back, we'll get married,' or 'As long as I come back alive, I'll XXXX.' That sort of sentence."
Mei Terumi: "(｀へ), Seiya, you bastard, what do you mean by that? How are those weird things? Those are clearly beautiful vows and blessings!"
Seiya: "(＿;) Anyway, if you don't want to become a widow someday, say less of that stuff."
To be fair, after Seiya had exposed all the abilities and weaknesses of the Six Paths of Pain, Jiraiya in Sage Mode should have had far better odds of victory than in the original story. It wasn't impossible for him to return alive.
However, everyone knew that Tsunade's promises and flags were curses of a lethal grade in the Naruto World.
From Nawaki to Dan Kato, then to Jiraiya, anyone whose fate wasn't sturdy enough truly couldn't withstand the debuff she came with.
A bosom beyond the alphabet might be alluring, but not just anyone could handle it.
No one present knew how far away Jiraiya and Pain had gone to