Obito: The Evil Ōtsutsuki

Jiraiya was speechless after learning the whole truth.

According to the prisoner next door, it was ultimately Jiraiya's fault. But now he couldn't feel the slightest guilt toward the man.

Good grief. The man had even brought up the bonds between husband and wife.

Jiraiya had felt guilty for ages, thinking the man next door was straight and had been hurt because of him.

But it turned out the man was a Bonds Ninja. He hated Jiraiya because all his old flames were gone.

The thing was, if Jiraiya hadn't written those Bonds novels with him as the protagonist, those people would never have fallen for him in the first place, right?

Jiraiya decided he wasn't the problem. The man next door was.

That man was a natural-born... well, he was just like Minato in the Engraved Tsukuyomi World where Naruto lived, the one Jiraiya had seen before.

Jiraiya thought it over. Everyone here was a prisoner who had committed a crime. How high could their moral standards be?

He was different. He had willingly accepted a false accusation to draw out his clone, all for the safety of the Shinobi World and everyone in it.

So he had no reason to feel guilty toward these people over his novels.

With that settled, Jiraiya resumed his training.

He didn't know when his clone would appear. All he could do was train hard until it did.

While Jiraiya was settling into Hozuki Castle's Blood Prison, Obito finally finished the extraction in the Engraved Tsukuyomi World.

The One-Tail, Four-Tails, Five-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Nine-Tails were now gathered inside him.

More than half the Tailed Beasts were already within him.

In the past, Obito would have been itching to declare war.

But after all his previous setbacks, he knew better than to celebrate at