"Saving Jiraiya-sensei wasn't because of the soul of the Great Toad Sage inside him?"
Minato Namikaze looked at the shadow clone projected inside by someone. Since this person had even brought Sazuko's mother, he certainly had the ability to bring Jiraiya-sensei and the other two, yet he hadn't. He guessed the problem likely lay with the Great Toad Sage.
"The Great Toad Sage and the Sage of Six Paths share a pair of pants. To avoid drawing the attention of the Sage of Six Paths, I had no choice but to give it up."
Tamura Hiroshi's shadow clone nodded. He had indeed given up on rescuing Jiraiya because of the Great Toad Sage's soul.
Of course, even without the Great Toad Sage, he wouldn't have gone to save him.
He had invited Jiraiya back then, but the man had refused, so naturally he wouldn't shamelessly pester him to join.
As for Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui, it was purely because the two had betrayed the Uchiha clan. Even the Uchiha clansmen on the village's side held deep resentment toward them, so naturally he wouldn't recruit those two over to invite trouble for himself.
"Sigh!"
Minato Namikaze sighed, unable to say anything.
They had all been chess pieces before, and being able to spare their lives now was already the limit. It was even thanks to his wife Kuhina's identity as part of the Uzumaki clan; without that layer of identity, Lord Hiroshi wouldn't have even bothered to look at them.
While they were talking, Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki had already been beaten down, his body dismembered, and his pair of Byakugan gouged out.
This was the terror of a team fight. Tamura Hiroshi had never thought of playing solo against these people. If a gang beat-down was an option, a gang beat-down