The Daimyō Dissolved in Water: Nawaki Takes Personal Rule

Jiraiya and Orochimaru's little private maneuvers had not escaped Toji's notice.

Holding the highest authority over the domain-wide barrier, he had received the Barrier Class's report on the Summoning Jutsu immediately.

He then took out the crystal ball and activated the Telescope Technique for long-range surveillance, instantly seeing their movements clearly. They were using the Reverse Summoning Technique to travel back and forth between Konoha and the sacred lands at regular intervals.

Toji was a deeply calculating man and did not rashly intervene.

They had come into contact with the sacred lands earlier than they had in the original timeline he remembered.

According to the original course of events, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru had been twenty-four or twenty-five when they fought Hanzo in Amegakure and were bestowed the title of the Konoha Three Ninja. At that time, Jiraiya had not yet entered Sage Mode.

The three Sannin could only summon the creatures of the Three Sacred Lands.

By that reasoning, they should have come into contact with the sacred lands later than this.

The unusual activity at Shikkotsu Forest and Ryūchi Cave could be set aside for now. What truly concerned Toji was Mount Myōboku, which Jiraiya had contacted.

Sage Katsuyu's prophecy concerned only the Senju Clan.

But that old toad of Mount Myōboku could influence the course of the entire Shinobi World.

Kaguya Otsutsuki had been sealed because of it, and Naruto had also embarked on the path of saving the world because of its prophecy—

In Toji's eyes, that old toad was practically the embodiment of fate itself.

If it made no prophecies, nothing would happen. Things happened precisely because it made prophecies. Beyond that, it also possessed the "Senjutsu: Telescope Technique," which even Kaguya could not detect.

Anyone, himself included, could be watched and recorded through the