Jiraiya glared at Hayato. "Watch your mouth. Why are you digging up old wounds?"
Hayato glared back. "Don't make it sound like 'pervert' is a compliment."
Jiraiya and Hayato only stayed at Mount Myōboku for one night.
For one thing, Jiraiya had grown accustomed to nights of revelry with lovely young ladies at his side. Switching to Mount Myōboku, where frogs croaked everywhere, clearly left him in low spirits.
For another, there was truly a mountain of work in Konoha. Just identifying and patching the gaps in the barrier was exhausting enough.
Hayato had wanted to meet with the Great Toad Sage once more, but unfortunately, the Great Toad Sage had been in a muddled state since yesterday. Hayato guessed that the Great Toad Sage was not truly suffering from dementia, but was instead using this method to preserve his life energy. Compared with the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave and the slug sage of Shikkotsu Forest, the Great Toad Sage seemed far more aged.
It seemed this was the price he had to pay for foreseeing the future.
Even though his prophecies were always so vague.
Before leaving, Hayato suggested to Naruto that he use Shadow Clones to absorb natural energy, then dispel them to transfer the senjutsu chakra. Naruto's eyes lit up, and Jiraiya's lit up even more.
"Think of some good idea?" Hayato asked.
Jiraiya said, "I was thinking, since Shadow Clones can store chakra, could scrolls store senjutsu chakra as well? Scrolls that store chakra already exist, and the technology is quite mature. Senjutsu is simply more specialized, so no one has succeeded yet—but that doesn't mean it can't be done."
In fact, the foundation for successful scientific ninja tools was scroll chakra-storage technology.
Hayato gave Jiraiya a thumbs-up. If it succeeded, Jiraiya would no