While missing him, Jiraiya also had a headache thinking about how he would explain things to Nawaki when he returned to the village.
He really had been an incompetent teacher.
"Another disciple?"
Over the past half year, the three who would one day form Akatsuki had already emerged from the gloom of losing their families and homeland.
Jiraiya was skilled at teaching disciples and even better at comforting people.
"Sensei, what kind of person is he?"
Konan asked curiously.
Jiraiya laughed. "Him? How should I put it? He feels a lot like me."
Thinking back on it, Jiraiya realized Nawaki really was quite like him. He was carefree, liked lewd stuff, was always forgetful and scatterbrained when doing things, and often spoke too bluntly, said the wrong thing, and got beaten up for it in the end.
"Then, Sensei, will you leave us behind?"
Jiraiya mentioning his other disciple, Nawaki, gave Konan a sense of crisis.
She was afraid Jiraiya would abandon them and leave the Land of Rain.
Nagato and Yahiko also became nervous.
Nagato even forgot to worry about exposing his Rinnegan and raised his head for the first time.
He simply did not know that Jiraiya had long known about his Rinnegan.
"I won't."
Jiraiya understood what the three children were worried about, so he smiled and encouraged them. "Just focus on learning. Leave everything else to your teacher."
Jiraiya dearly wanted to leave the Land of Rain and return to the Land of Fire, to Konoha, but he knew he could not leave, at least not yet.
Because the three little ones were still too young.
If he left, then with the strength the three of them possessed, surviving in a chaotic place like the Land of Rain would be difficult, and they would encounter all