Whose Work

Konoha had suddenly exposed so much darkness.

Every ninja village was having a field day watching the spectacle.

Other ninja villages might also have Kage blinded by power and greed, but someone who had gone as far as Hiruzen Sarutobi...

He was truly one of a kind.

After all, he had wiped out the Senju Clan, one of Konoha's founding clans, and repeatedly persecuted several of Konoha's pillars.

It could be said that the Konoha F4, centered around Hiruzen Sarutobi, were the main cause of Konoha's decline.

Such enormous news swept out like a whirlwind, and Jiraiya naturally received word of it as well.

He hurried back to Konoha.

No one had informed him beforehand, and Orochimaru had never mentioned that he intended to move against the Sarutobi Clan.

When Jiraiya suddenly received the news, he was completely stunned.

As someone who had spent years gathering intelligence outside the village, Jiraiya could only be said to know a little about Konoha's darkness.

But he had never looked deeply into it.

The information exposed this time had caught even Jiraiya off guard.

What Danzo had said before and what had now been confirmed were two entirely different matters.

And regarding Hatake Sakumo, as well as the seizure of Kushina's assets, so much time had passed that even Jiraiya did not know about them.

Jiraiya had already realized that Orochimaru had never trusted the Sarutobi Clan from beginning to end.

His earlier reuse of the Sarutobi Clan had been entirely to draw every last one of them out.

The question now was how Orochimaru intended to deal with these Sarutobi Clan Members.

Knowing Orochimaru's methods, Jiraiya was truly worried that Orochimaru would kill them all or use them as material for Human Experimentation.

When the travel-worn Jiraiya returned to Konoha, at the