After all, this was only a reconnaissance mission. Jiraiya believed that, with his own strength, there shouldn't be any problem.
"No need."
Hyuga Sho took a step forward and stopped Jiraiya.
It wasn't that he was worried Jiraiya would die.
Rather, he thought Jiraiya would mess things up.
Thinking carefully about the first half of Jiraiya's life, he had basically spent it in failure.
Whether it was failing to bring Orochimaru back.
Or failing to track down Tsunade.
Or any other matter.
Jiraiya had always played the role of a loser.
That was also why he had been made to teach Sasuke.
Jiraiya looked at Hyuga Sho in confusion, but didn't hurry to speak, as if waiting for Hyuga Sho to explain.
Hyuga Sho raised his head and looked toward the city on the sea across the shore—the Rain Village—and said to everyone, "We can just kill our way in."
"!"
Hyuga Sho's approach was clearly much bolder than anyone had expected.
"I said before that I would wipe out Akatsuki by myself..."
Hyuga Sho did exactly as he said.
What a boast.
That thought surfaced in everyone's mind.
But Hyuga Sho truly had the power to be arrogant.
In the past, everyone had witnessed Hyuga Sho's strength. They could only shut their mouths and obediently follow his orders.
Surprisingly,
not a single person present thought there was anything wrong with Hyuga Sho's plan.
That was to say...
the matter of invading Amegakure.
In the eyes of these beneficiaries of the great nations, it seemed only natural for a great nation to invade a small one.
Even Tsunade didn't feel there was anything wrong with it.
After all, the great nations had done this sort of thing in the past.
"Heh heh heh..."
Orochimaru stood beside Hiruzen Sarutobi.
He had