Inside the Hokage's Office, a palm-sized slug appeared on the desk. Tsunade stared at the tiny slug and asked with a dark expression:
"Lord Slug, I really want to know why what you said differs from Ronglin's account.
Can you tell me why you tricked Ronglin into the sealed space once left behind by the Sage of Six Paths, making him spend ten years inside without food or water?"
For an ordinary person, they would have starved to death outright. Not to mention that being trapped in such a space could absolutely drive someone mad.
While Tsunade ached for Ronglin, she was also furious—and deeply worried.
Ronglin must have tried to summon the slugs. Although he had not mentioned it, Tsunade was certain he had, and the slugs must have been avoiding him at the time.
Ronglin might have seemed fine on the surface, merely cursing for a while and letting it go, but Tsunade knew that once he had dealt with the matters at hand, he would go looking for the entrances to Shikkotsu Forest and Mount Myōboku.
Once he found them, there would be serious trouble.
"Ugh~~~ We didn't want to do this either. We simply didn't want to see Kumogakure destroyed."
Lord Slug sighed as it looked at Tsunade, whose anger was on the verge of erupting. "The Toad Sage foretold that the Ninja World would soon face a great calamity. To prepare for it, he came to me and hoped we could make Ronglin stop attacking Kumogakure."
"But you know that kid's personality. Could he possibly be persuaded? With no other choice, we used the Sage of Six Paths as bait to draw him in. It wasn't because we wanted to harm him."
"A calamity?"
Tsunade frowned and said coldly:
"But that hardly gives you a