Potions

"Ah, pervert!"

"Damn scumbag!"

"Oh my god, he's completely naked!"

"BOOM"

Though they were in the women's bath, these were still the village's kunoichi. The instant the wooden wall shattered, aside from a very few who hadn't reacted in time and stayed hidden in the water, the rest had already dressed in a flash. Pairs of eyes, honed through life-and-death battles, fixed dead on Jiraiya. Their icy glares shifted like demons from hell, ready to destroy the reckless intruder!

"Jiraiya, you piece of trash!"

A furious scream rang out. A girl with brilliant blonde hair tied up, possessing a generous chest yet an extremely slender figure, now radiated the aura of a hellish fiend!

"It's not like that!"

Faced with this sudden crisis, Jiraiya still tried to offer a futile explanation. But at this moment, his actions perfectly embodied the thuggish logic of "If you won't show me your naked body, I'll show you mine!"

Of course, even Jiraiya was pretty bewildered by the situation!

Naked as the day he was born, Jiraiya searched frantically through the chaotic attacks for Shudan's figure, but that brat had long since bolted—there was no trace of him!

Logically, he should have fled immediately and figured things out later. However, facing a combined force of female ninjas ranging from Chunin to Jonin, even with his elite Jonin strength, retreating without hurting them was extremely difficult. That moment of hesitation cost Jiraiya dearly!

A massive amount of Chakra gathered rapidly, then was tightly locked into a fist. Before the strike even landed, a faint sense of danger already weighed heavily on Jiraiya's heart. Against another elite Jonin's furious blow, built up over half a day, even Jiraiya's hasty defense couldn't block the terrifying attack.

Its momentum was majestic, its force like a prison—its name: Monster Strength!

The instant fist met flesh, Jiraiya couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Then, propelled by the dreadful force, he carved a deep trench into the ground before vanishing from sight.

After delivering an attack that could be called murderous, Tsunade shot a fierce glare in the direction Jiraiya had disappeared, her contempt clear. Finally, she waved at the visibly shaken kunoichi and led them away from the scene!

At the end of the tunnel, rows of trees had been snapped in half. A pitiful figure lay weakly among the piled debris. Watching the blood-soaked, unconscious Jiraiya, Shudan's brow twitched slightly before he spoke flatly:

"System, begin recording the results of my newly developed Clothes-Bursting Potion experiment."

"Beep. System recording initiated. Simultaneously, the system reminds the researcher that the Clothes-Bursting Potion test subject is in a life-threatening state. If left unattended, death may occur."

"Don't sweat the details!"

Shudan said indifferently:

"This scumbag peeped at the women's bath for so long without getting caught, and he didn't even tell me that trick. Serves him right if he dies. Begin recording. First, the Clothes-Bursting Potion takes effect seven seconds after ingestion.

Second, the Clothes-Bursting Potion perfectly corrodes the user's clothing with no side effects on the user's body.

Third, after drinking the Clothes-Bursting Potion, the user's Chakra surges uncontrollably, creating a large amount of smoke, and the explosive force can destroy a 10-centimeter-thick wooden plank!"

"Beep. Clothes-Bursting Potion recorded successfully. Researcher—Shudan. The researcher's 100th potion has been recorded. The system will reward a potion formula suitable for the researcher's current stage. Distributed in 24 hours.

Beep. System detects the Clothes-Bursting Potion test subject is in a critically life-threatening state. If left unattended, death may occur."

"Tch. Having the skill to peep at the women's bath without being caught and not sharing it—people like that deserve to die."

Shudan stared at Jiraiya with cold indifference. This scene drove the Konoha Guard hidden in the shadows absolutely crazy.

"Hey, does this kid have any humanity? That's Jiraiya! And Ming, you heard him too, right? At eight years old, he's already this perverted and jealous. Is this brat really just a little kid?"

The speaker was a Guard member with a two-tomoe Sharingan activated, Uchiha Ren. The one called Ming was a cold-natured ninja with a three-tomoe Sharingan. Because of the system, most of what Shudan said to it was ignored by others. But the Guard members had both heard his words about letting Jiraiya die. Faced with this situation, even the coldest guy couldn't help but look like he'd just had a run-in with a ninja dog:

"Damn it. Jiraiya is a major combat asset for the village. Even if he doesn't exactly support our Uchiha clan, letting him die so pathetically would be a big loss for us. And besides..."

Uchiha Ming said with a headache:

"This is exactly our patrol area. If he dies, we'll never be able to explain it!"

It wasn't that the two Guard members weren't rushing to help, but rather wasting time on the spot. Seeing Jiraiya's miserable state, they knew that unless a Medical Ninja of at least Chunin level performed emergency treatment, even moving this pervert could be fatal. The time it would take them to run to Konoha Hospital and drag a doctor back was enough for a lot to happen. Shudan was a junior Medical Ninja, and a decent one at that. If he acted, none of this would be a problem. But the key question was... would this kid act?

Watching Shudan gesture at Jiraiya without actually doing anything, Uchiha Ming and Uchiha Ren exchanged glances, sighed, put on their masks, and appeared in front of Shudan in a flash. Uchiha Ming stepped forward and said directly:

"Hatake Shudan, we're the Konoha Guard. Given the current situation, we need you to treat Jiraiya immediately and take him to Konoha Hospital. I think with your skills, carrying one person shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Shudan stared at the two who had suddenly appeared, paused for two seconds, then said warily:

"You say you're the Konoha Guard. Proof? The first lesson in ninja school was not to trust strangers easily. I remember that clearly!"

"Tch!"

Uchiha Ming sucked in a cold breath, feeling he'd never met such an infuriating brat. In Konoha, pretending to be the Konoha Guard was suicide. A bunch of Sharingan would be watching you, and they'd torture you until you wished you were dead. And from Shudan's behavior, he'd definitely confirmed their identities at first glance. The whole "I don't trust strangers" nonsense was just an excuse not to save Jiraiya!

What Uchiha Ming thought, Uchiha Ren also realized:

"Hey, kid. You don't have some grudge against Jiraiya, do you? Letting someone die without helping—that's a major taboo in the village!"

"How could I let someone die without helping!"

Shudan's eyes widened, looking furious:

"Jiraiya's been badly injured. Eight broken ribs, all comminuted fractures. The bones need to be wrapped in Chakra, draining the blood, isolating the muscles to prevent secondary damage. And the broken ends are very close to his heart—one wrong move and he's dead. Both arms are fractured too. Not fatal, but the breaks are near arteries and tendons. The bones need to be carefully realigned with precise force, then treated with Healing Technique..."

Shudan rattled off the treatment steps without pause, but this only made Uchiha Ming and Uchiha Ren's faces grow darker. You don't want to save him, right? This kid clearly doesn't want to save him, right? You explain it in such detail, but you can't even do emergency first aid?

"Don't look at me like that. Do I seem like the kind of person who'd let someone die?"

Seeing the two men's faces darken by the second, Shudan decisively pulled out his trump card:

"Besides, I didn't bring any medical tools for treating patients today!"

"Clatter!"

The moment Zhou Duan finished speaking, something fell from him to the ground—a palm-sized Konoha medical kit!

Zhou Duan curled his lip, ignored the two people's stunned expressions, and leaned directly to Jiraiya's ear:

"Jiraiya, what you did to me I'll never forget for the rest of my life! Even if I'm killed, even if I jump off Hokage Rock, I will never save you!"

"Unconscious" Jiraiya opened his eyes, the corners of his mouth twitching as he spoke:

"Zhou Duan, refusing to lend you the toad for research back then was my fault. I also admit I was wrong for taking your wallet and standing you up. My wallet is on me, the toad is approved, you can summon it right now!"

Looking at Jiraiya, who was cooperating perfectly, Zhou Duan immediately revealed a satisfied smile:

"This emergency treatment? Actually, it's not that hard!"