"Um, Sage? Aren't you going to introduce yourself?"
Standing beside the White Snake Sage, Jiraiya found her aura rather hard to bear. He twitched the corner of his mouth and quietly reminded her.
"...I'm not interested."
Feeling that she had made a fool of herself, the White Snake Sage scowled and withdrew.
The only consolation was that probably no One had noticed.
"...Ahem. The White Snake Sage has quite a personality. Next is the sage of Shikkotsu Forest, another sacred land of ancient traditions in the shinobi world. She has never cared for rivalry or strife, wishing only that the world's medicines might gather dust, unused. Renowned throughout the shinobi world as the holy healer who saves all, the merciful and compassionate Sage Katsuyu!"
Jiraiya had a whole repertoire of lines for praising the sages. After all, he was a show-off who always liked composing entrance speeches for himself in his head.
"Hello, everyone. There's usually no need to call me a sage~"
Sage Katsuyu was extremely friendly, with a very gentle female voice. Yet contrary to her seemingly approachable nature, Shikkotsu Forest, despite being one of the Three Great Sage Lands, had almost the fewest inheritors of senjutsu.
Apart from Hashirama's branch of the Senju Clan, Sage Katsuyu had passed on senjutsu and provided training to almost no one. Even though she had a Summoning Contract with Tsunade, she had never taught her the corresponding senjutsu.
Katsuyu's name was somewhat better known than the White Snake Sage's, for no other reason than that Tsunade had spent so many years traveling the shinobi world as a medical ninja, and many people had benefited from Katsuyu's help.
Back when Tsunade's hemophobia had prevented her from personally treating conditions involving blood, Katsuyu and Shizune had handled them instead. Thus, Katsuyu's introduction drew