Saving the Uchiha: Start by Flipping the Table
Chapter 42

Uchiha Yan: Either You Swear a Poisonous Oath, or I Post a Notice!

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Yan showed Jiraiya no courtesy as he coldly questioned him:

"I know you have no family, sir, and don't care whether the women in your family might be peeped at.

But put yourself in their shoes. If the woman you liked were peeped at like this, would you feel comfortable?"

"Would you be willing to accept that?"

Whose family didn't have female relatives?

If this happened to you, could you accept it?

What the hell was "gathering material"? You were just being a shameless pervert. Peeping was peeping—don't dress it up with some lofty excuse.

"..."

Damn it!!!

Left speechless, Jiraiya cursed inwardly.

Of course he wouldn't want the woman he liked to be watched while bathing. Besides, Tsunade wasn't someone an ordinary person could peep at—ah, ptooey, that wasn't right. It would be best if this kind of thing never happened.

"We're all men. Being lustful may not be good, but it isn't something shameful either.

But if you can't control that restless, nowhere-to-go nature inside you, sir, you should find yourself a wife. I'm sure there would be plenty of women willing to marry you—the line could stretch from the Police Department all the way to the village entrance."

"If you think starting a family is troublesome or burdensome, and you want to release that restless, nowhere-to-go nature of yours, then find a suitable place.

If you don't have money, I can lend it to you, or even give it to you outright. Please don't do this sort of thing again in the future, all right?"

Yan put heavy emphasis on the word "sir."

Restless, nowhere-to-go nature...

Captain, that description was absolutely perfect.

If they hadn't been afraid of offending Jiraiya, quite a few people would have burst out laughing.

"Bullshit."

Jiraiya's face flushed red. After Yan's sarcastic barrage of questioning, he was so embarrassed his toes could have dug a three-bedroom apartment into the ground.

"I am the great Toad Sage, Lord Jiraiya! How could I possibly not have money?"

"If you have money, why peep? Or do important people all have certain unspeakable hobbies?

Lord Hokage likes to hug a crystal ball and watch. You're even more direct—you dig a hole in the wall to watch.

Do you know that if you're caught doing this, people will file complaints? When that happens, we're the ones who suffer."

Seriously, Jiraiya peeped at someone bathing, and once he was discovered, he could just pat his butt and leave. But the Police Department would be in trouble.

The person being peeped at would definitely place the blame on the Police Department.

They would think it happened because the Police Department's patrols were inadequate.

"I..."

Jiraiya was dumbfounded.

I was only gone from the village for a few years, and Uchiha produced such a difficult little brat?

Sentence after sentence, Yan kept pinning huge labels on him. He called him "sir" again and again, mocking him at every turn, and even dragged the Third Hokage into it.

What made Jiraiya even more uncomfortable was Izumi, as a girl, staring at him with eyes full of contempt and disgust.

When it came to this kind of thing, it didn't matter whether you were an important figure. Once caught, you would be met with women's contempt and disgust, even if Izumi was only ten.

"Fine, I was wrong. I won't peep at anyone ever again. Is that enough?"

Jiraiya raised his hands. I can't argue with you. Isn't surrender enough?

"If apologies were useful, what would we need the Police Department for?"

Yan did not accept Jiraiya's apology.

"I've heard plenty about your glorious past. When you were young, you snuck into women's bathhouses and got beaten out. When you got a little older, you used Earth Release to break into hot spring inns. You even used your teacher's name to steal books children weren't allowed to read from bookstores. You've always been making promises, but have you ever corrected yourself?"

Brat, I suspect you investigated me!!!

Jiraiya flew into a rage. "Then what do you want me to do? Arrest me and lock me up in the Police Department?"

He couldn't win an argument, and no one believed his promises. What else could he do?

Run away directly?

Yan cut off Jiraiya's thought of fleeing.

"If you dare run, I'll post notices throughout the village in the name of the Police Department, exposing all the good things you've done."

"Then what do you want? Just say it already!!"

Jiraiya felt like he was about to be driven mad.

Where had this hateful Uchiha brat come from? He was so annoying.

What should he do?

Actually, Yan didn't have any particularly good options either. After all, Jiraiya's status was special. He couldn't arrest him, and it wasn't appropriate to scold him either.

What was even more frustrating was that this guy had incredibly thick skin. He would promise you one moment, then immediately change locations and continue peeping the next.

"Make an oath. If you do it again, then from now on, sir, you'll be impotent and only interested in men."

"Pfft~~~"

Jiraiya nearly spat blood. "Brat, don't go too far."

Everyone else was dumbstruck. Even Izumi was startled. She really wanted to ask: Captain, isn't that oath a little too vicious?

"You damned brat, are you poisonous or something? I already said I guarantee there won't be a next time. What more do you want? Why don't you make such a vicious oath first?"

"Me?"

Yan blinked, then raised his hand.

"I, Uchiha Yan, swear that if I peep at women bathing, I will be impotent from then on and only interested in men. Your turn, sir."

An oath?

What bullshit. Would I, Uchiha Yan, ever do something so shameless?

Jiraiya: "..."

Jiraiya, having been checkmated, was completely stunned.

"Itachi, prepare to notify the Police Department. Post a notice about what happened today, and don't leave out a single word."

"Wait, I'll swear! I'll swear, all right?"

Jiraiya truly panicked. He had underestimated just how difficult Yan was, and he had never expected Yan to dare make such a poisonous oath.

At the thought of becoming impotent and only being interested in men, Jiraiya shuddered and unconsciously clamped his legs together.

"I, Jiraiya, swear that I will absolutely never peep at anyone bathing again. Otherwise, I will be impotent for the rest of my life and only interested in men."

"That good enough, brat?"

Jiraiya practically ground those words out from between his teeth, one word at a time.

"Sir, do as you please."

With a wave of his hand, Yan led everyone away. As for whether Jiraiya would offend again, he had better not let Yan or anyone from the Police Department catch him. Otherwise, Yan would immediately post a notice about what had happened today.

It all depended on whether Jiraiya's skin was thick enough to ignore everything.

He had barely watched any material before being caught. Not only had he been berated until he questioned his life, he had also been forced to make a poisonous oath. Jiraiya felt like dying, and with a dark expression, he ran off.

"Captain, was that really appropriate...?"

Itachi hesitated. "After all, he's an important figure in the village—a village hero."

"Do you have women in your family?"

Yan asked in return.

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