Searching for Tsunade, Research

Over the next few days of travel, Minamoto Takuya truly got a taste of the legendary meaning of "wild and uninhibited."

Jiraiya, one of the Sannin, thoroughly turned the word "legendary" into a vivid reality before his eyes.

The title representing "yellow" among the Sannin seemed to have finally found its long-lost home in him. Along the way, he lived up to it in every possible sense, without the slightest concealment.

Though Minamoto Takuya often looked helpless on the surface, he understood it to some extent.

He knew very well that this was not simply Jiraiya indulging in debauchery. It was his unique intelligence-gathering technique, using places filled with drink, women, and noise to pry out information.

The rumors in such places were often a tangled mix of truth and falsehood, their threads unclear, but there was no shortage of them.

As all kinds of patrons drank and chatted, they were bound to let slip a few bits of recent news.

With enough patience, one could sift through it like panning for gold and piece together valuable clues from the sand.

Especially information regarding Tsunade, that "big fat sheep." Would the people who won money from a big fat sheep spend that money on their families?

Some would, but not many. Most used it for pleasure, so naturally, this was a good place to look for information about a big fat sheep.

At that moment, Minamoto Takuya sat upright in a shabby inn room, his brows slightly furrowed as his fingertips slowly moved across a Sealing Scroll.

Fortunately, Jiraiya had gone out again to "gather intelligence," allowing Minamoto Takuya to safely send a Shadow Clone to the laboratory to handle urgent matters.

His real body was not wasting time here either. He was fully focused on studying the secret sealing