"Damn, what enormous water pressure and currents." Tobitake Tonbo felt the pressure bearing down on him, as well as the currents churning like a blender.
Water Release: Water Avoidance Technique.
An invisible bubble rose around him, keeping all the water pressure outside.
Only then did he look at his target—Jiraiya's corpse—and quickly moved closer along the current.
"He really died!"
What happened? Could there really be some kind of world will?
Even if Tobitake Tonbo had not interfered much, Pain's intelligence had genuinely reached Jiraiya, hadn't it? And he still died.
Had Nagato used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path?
Or had Konan used her six hundred billion Explosive Tags?
That was all Tobitake Tonbo could suspect.
Otherwise, with Jiraiya's mastery of the Summoning Technique, there was no reason he could not escape.
"Since that's the case, I shouldn't let this go to waste."
Though somewhat surprised, Tobitake Tonbo was not greatly shaken. He merely found it strange that Jiraiya had still died.
He only needed to read the remaining memories to find out everything. After all, Mind Reading Technique was his signature skill.
He grabbed Jiraiya's body, pulled out the Black Rods embedded in him, put them away, and began using the Mind Reading Technique.
Boom!
Traveling through Jiraiya's tunnel of memories, he quickly found the relevant nodes and looked at the important matters first.
Compared to the memories of the rank-and-file shinobi and ordinary Jōnin he had read before, Jiraiya's memories were far richer.
Tobitake Tonbo thought his Mind Reading Technique was already incredible. He could quickly locate what he wanted, extract it, and focus on the key details.
But...
The first thing that appeared as he passed through the tunnel of memories was not Jiraiya's training experiences, not the circumstances of his death, and certainly not