Jiraiya did not immediately reprimand Minato Namikaze. Instead, he checked whether anyone was passing by. From this alone, it was clear that even if Minato Namikaze had committed some heinous crime, Jiraiya, as his teacher, would instinctively protect him.
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Jiraiya looked at him with a complicated expression and said,
"Konoha will not fail. There is no need to pay such a price. As long as we persist, we can succeed."
With both hands clenched into fists, Jiraiya was utterly confident in the village's strength. He believed that with his own power and help from all sides, they would certainly be able to stop the enemy's invasion.
"Jiraiya-sensei, you are wrong about one thing. What makes them powerful is not merely their strength, but also their ability to reform."
"Especially their research in various fields. That is something we do not possess. Dawn Hidden Village has already mastered a method of reviving the dead and successfully revived Kushina."
The two reasons Minato Namikaze had agreed to Uchiha Yū's plan were, aside from protecting Konoha from devastation, that power of resurrection. The strong fighters of Dawn Hidden Village could fight without restraint; even if they died in the end, they could be revived.
In contrast, Konoha only had fewer people the harder it fought. It had no way to stop the enemy's invasion.
"Tap, tap, tap~"
Just as Jiraiya finished listening to Minato Namikaze's words and sank into stunned silence, he suddenly heard footsteps from the doorway, followed by the sounds of people collapsing one after another.
"Jiraiya-sama, you are still far too confident in yourself."
A figure who should never have appeared entered the Hokage's office. Looking past Uchiha Yū, they saw a row of shinobi behind him, all knocked unconscious in an instant without