As Tsunade's devoted simp, Jiraiya was the kind of man who would order a Tsunade even when visiting brothels, so naturally he knew her whereabouts. At that moment, Tsunade had also received a message from Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Yet after reading that heartfelt message, Tsunade merely sneered. She crushed the message scroll and tossed it aside, then continued frequenting casinos and taverns as she always had, with no intention whatsoever of returning to Konoha.
No matter how Shizune pleaded beside her or analyzed what kind of problem Konoha might have encountered that it could not resolve, Tsunade remained completely unmoved.
Although Tsunade did not possess intelligence sources like Jiraiya's that continued to keep tabs on the village after leaving it, she understood the Konoha High Command far better. She could read the hypocrisy between the lines and naturally would not be moved to tears by Sarutobi Hiruzen's few words of warmth, much less consider returning to Konoha.
If Jiraiya was merely disappointed in the Konoha High Command, then Tsunade had fallen into complete despair.
No one understood better than Tsunade, the princess of the Senju Clan, how the Senju Clan had vanished. She had once gambled and played dice with Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage. During the First Shinobi World War, she was already old enough to remember things.
After her second grandfather died in battle and passed the Hokage Seat to Sarutobi Hiruzen, the powerful members of the Senju Clan all became sacrifices for Sarutobi Hiruzen to secure his position as Hokage. As for the remaining ordinary clan members, almost all of them died in that publicly recruited human experimentation program.
The last surviving clan members had not even been able to preserve the Senju glory. That kind Teacher had integrated them into Konoha's ordinary populace, claiming that everyone was