Unbelievable, right?
No one had complained about you before because you were still within everyone's limits of tolerance.
Once you crossed that limit, just see whether people would get angry or not.
Like now.
How many times had Jiraiya done this sort of thing from childhood to adulthood?
How many times had he been caught?
Just because people had kept putting up with it didn't mean they would endure it forever. Once they couldn't take it anymore and joined forces to complain, Jiraiya was in trouble.
Because they weren't wrong.
They had finally gone to a hot spring inn to relax, only to be peeped on the moment they got there. Who could put up with that?
The hot spring inn's image and reputation would definitely take a hit.
With its reputation ruined, people would be unwilling to go there for baths, and the inn's income would naturally plummet. Of course they would complain.
Jiraiya was definitely paying this compensation.
The Third Hokage couldn't possibly pay it for him. Not to mention Konoha's finances were a little tight, even if they weren't, the Third Hokage would never pay Jiraiya's bill.
If he had spare money to compensate Jiraiya, wouldn't it be better to divert it to the clan and train a few more shinobi?
No one knew exactly how much money the Third Hokage had diverted to subsidize his clan during his years in office.
But from the time he took office until the time he died, the number of shinobi in the Sarutobi Clan had increased by roughly... perhaps not a hundredfold, but at least several dozen times over.
Not to mention anything else, the fact that the Sarutobi Clan fielded three thousand shinobi during the Fourth Shinobi World War was enough to prove just how enormous the clan's