—Thunderclap: Takemikazuchi!
Majestic Attire: Kirin struck the earth with overwhelming thunderous force!
BOOM!!!!
The Susanoo armor shattered, spraying fragments wreathed in Lightning in every direction...!!!
Like Itachi's Senjutsu, Fire God Crow, this attack used fragments of Susanoo to inflict a second wave of damage. Though it lacked the propulsion of exploding flames, the Lightning Release imbued the shards with even more terrifying cutting and penetrating power!!
No body of flesh and blood could survive within the thunderstorm's reach!
When it ended, fragments of Susanoo jutted at random from the gouged earth. A handful had even buried themselves a hundred meters underground!
Jiraiya was nowhere to be seen among the ruins!
Far, far away.
Karin said, "Jiraiya's chakra and those two toads' chakra have all disappeared from my senses. That probably means..."
Orochimaru said, "He wouldn't be killed that easily."
Kabuto Yakushi adjusted his glasses. "Then did he escape using the Reverse Summoning Technique, just as Sasuke-kun did when Deidara blew himself up?"
Orochimaru said, "There's another possibility. He's inside a barrier called the Toad Gourd Prison!"
The Toad Gourd Prison was a barrier naturally present within the belly of Mount Myōboku's Gourd Toad. Isolated from the outside world, it was effectively a separate dimension. In his previous life, near the end of Jiraiya's battle with Pain, Jiraiya had dragged Pain's Animal Path inside and killed him. Even Nagato could not detect anyone within it!
Jiraiya could have escaped through the Gourd Toad, but he had bravely gone to his death to confirm his intelligence.
While Sasuke was clothing Kirin in Susanoo's Majestic Attire, Jiraiya had summoned the Gourd Toad. The instant Takemikazuchi descended, the toad swallowed him, saving him from certain destruction!
Inside the Toad Gourd Prison, Sage Fukasaku was still shaken.
"I never imagined he'd be this difficult to