Damn it!!
Tsunade suddenly felt powerless. At the meeting, she had strongly opposed the village continuing to remain bogged down in the Land of Rain.
But the Third Hokage and the Elder Council stood together. No matter how fiercely she objected, her opposition was ineffective.
Torifu Akimichi was merely a figurehead now and could offer her neither help nor support. Unless she could win over the Elder Council, her objections would have no effect whatsoever.
Before the meeting had even ended, Tsunade stormed out.
As she stepped out of the Hokage Office Building, a late-autumn evening breeze blew toward her. The icy wind cooled much of the rage burning in her chest.
After returning home and carefully going over today's meeting, Tsunade felt it was necessary to make a trip to the frontline camp.
She needed to have a proper face-to-face talk with Jingyi.
Using puppets to relay messages across more than half the Land of Fire was not only slow, but many matters simply could not be explained clearly.
Tsunade told no one about her intention to visit the frontline camp. After assigning an additional Anbu squad to protect Kushina, she quietly left the village with her people.
Under her deliberate instructions, let alone ordinary people, even the Hokage Office received no word of it.
Tsunade intended to come quietly and leave quietly. Since she had not informed Shikaku Nara, after arriving in the Land of Rain, she had a puppet notify Jingyi.
Upon receiving the message, Jingyi got dressed and left the camp under cover of night.
Inside a concealed cave near the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rain, Jingyi gestured to the Anbu ninja hiding in the shadows, removed his raincoat, and walked into the cave.
There was only a single oil