"Jiraiya, listen, I can expl—explain." Seeing the situation turn against him, Hiruzen Sarutobi still tried to make one last defense.
"Teacher, what else is there to say? You've betrayed the Second's trust in you, betrayed the Konoha you once loved, and betrayed the principles you once stood for!"
Jiraiya had already understood what his teacher was thinking.
He no longer wanted to keep talking with him.
"There's no point in saying more, teacher. I'll make your crimes public!" Jiraiya turned and left.
"This is the last thing I can do for my teacher."
Jiraiya couldn't bear to watch his teacher stray farther and farther down the wrong path.
If his teacher kept clinging to the Hokage Position and refused to relinquish it,
then all he could do was apologize to him.
Hiruzen Sarutobi watched his departing student and instinctively tried to stop him.
In the end, the hand suspended in midair slowly fell.
"Have I betrayed my principles?"
He fell silent.
After leaving the Hokage Building, Jiraiya didn't know what to do.
Tell him to fight, write novels, or confess to Tsunade, and he could handle it with ease.
Though Tsunade sent him flying with a punch every time,
at least he understood her and knew how to get her attention.
But now he had to make his teacher's crimes public, and he felt more lost than ever.
"Hmm, I'll go find the Uchiha Clan."
After thinking for a moment, Jiraiya made a bold decision.
He would lead the Uchiha Clan in overthrowing his teacher!
As for who would become Hokage afterward,
he definitely wouldn't.
He still had research to do and Orochimaru to find.
Jiraiya understood the Uchiha Clan's nature. When it came to comrades they accepted, they were truly willing to protect them with their lives.
If the