"Crack!!!" Delta's palm stopped dead.
Glancing toward her earpiece, she shouted, "Amado... what are you doing?! Why did you make me stop?!!"
"Switch your headset to speaker mode. I have something to say to Jiraiya!"
Delta snapped irritably, "Huh? What nonsense are you talking about? Weren't you the one who ordered me to kill them? I'm almost done, and now you tell me to stop! Hey... don't tell me what he just said tempted you into betraying Jigen?"
"Delta, what are you imagining? There are just a few things on my mind that I want to confirm with him."
"Fine, I'll trust you for now! But if I decide you're plotting something against Jigen, I'll kill him without hesitation, then come settle the score with you!"
"That's your choice."
"Hmph." Only then did Delta reluctantly press the button to switch her headset to speaker mode.
By now, Jiraiya could no longer even stand upright before her. He crouched, doubled over, with one hand braced against the ground. He pressed the wrist of his severed arm made from Hashirama cells against the bloody hole in his abdomen. His face was as pale as paper, and he could hardly have looked more wretched.
Amado's voice came from Delta's headset. "Jiraiya, tell me about this deal of yours."
At those words... a flicker of clarity suddenly returned to Jiraiya's fading consciousness.
He knew he had made the right move.
Kara had probably already noticed something unusual about Sasuke and was preparing to act, but he knew nothing of the finer details.
For the past ten days, Jiraiya and Konan had been operating around the Ancient Kingdom of Kucha, whose peculiar geography kept both the light of the Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Expansive World Bloom from reaching it.
So, from Jiraiya's perspective, a large