Teacher and Disciple Had a Heart-to-Heart
Jiraiya could not help slapping his own forehead. Over the past year, he had missed far too much.
He had missed every single new thing happening in the village, and Jiraiya found that a real shame.
"Ah, if I'd come back sooner, maybe I could have seen Tsunade. Is going to the Other World really troublesome?"
Minato Namikaze thought for a moment. "Not that troublesome. You only need to apply for an ID Card. Our village can handle it."
That made Jiraiya rather happy. He had never even imagined something like the Other World before; not even in the novels he wrote had there been anything like this.
And now, a real Other World was right in front of him. He had to go see it!
Besides, Tsunade was in that world too. He had to go take a look.
"What about Orochimaru? Is that guy still in the village?"
Minato Namikaze did not know why Jiraiya was asking that.
"Of course. Lord Orochimaru is now Konoha's chief scientist. He's vigorously developing Konoha's technology, aiming to catch up with the technological level of the Other World as soon as possible."
This was another piece of news that left Jiraiya dumbfounded. "What? Chief scientist? Who gave him that title?!"
"It was jointly decided and certified by the village elders."
In Jiraiya's impression, after witnessing death again and again, Orochimaru's personality had begun to grow obsessive.
Especially after the Second Shinobi World War, he had completely changed into a different person.
During the time Jiraiya had been away from the village, he had always had a premonition that Orochimaru would do something to betray the village because of his obsessive nature.
So once he returned to the village, he had immediately planned to verify it, only