"Sorry."
Jiraiya rubbed his hands awkwardly, looking like a green-headed fly.
"The Sage Eye is a matter of great importance. I was worried the news might leak. Once someone learns about it, it could become a disaster for Nagato. Forget outsiders—even the village might not be able to resist."
"Some things can't be hidden forever. Besides, don't you find it strange? Since when did the Uzumaki Clan possess bizarre eyes?"
Jiraiya surely understood the Uzumaki Clan's true nature.
Yet he actually believed Nagato's Rinnegan had belonged to him from the start!
Still, it was understandable that Jiraiya would think that way.
After all, aside from the two schemers, Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha, the Shinobi World was almost completely ignorant of this information.
Knowing about the Sage Eye was already impressive enough.
As for why the Sage Eye had appeared in Nagato... who would have thought more deeply about it?
Jiraiya was the perfect example.
The funniest part was that the toads of Mount Myoboku had not explained it clearly either.
The Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku had known perfectly well how the Sage of Six Paths' Byakugan had turned into the Sharingan, and how the Sharingan had turned into the Rinnegan.
After all, if it had not fanned the flames behind the scenes, the Sage of Six Paths brothers would not have turned against Kaguya Otsutsuki so quickly.
Yet Jiraiya searched everywhere for a savior, everywhere for the Child of Prophecy, while the Toad Sage did nothing but sleep and muddle through things.
It was unbelievable just thinking about it.
It was one thing for the Toad Sage itself to be muddleheaded, but the other toads of Mount Myoboku did not know these secrets either!
"What... do you mean?"
Jiraiya was a little bewildered.
Jingyi said irritably,
"What makes