"Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!"
At Jiraiya's low shout, the giant Gamabunta beneath him spat a huge stream of pungent toad oil toward Madara Uchiha. Jiraiya simultaneously unleashed a Fire Release Technique, igniting the oil and turning it into a sea of flames that engulfed the area around Madara Uchiha.
"Jiraiya, you're in serious trouble this time. Even with me, Ma, and Pa helping, we probably can't beat this guy. You should hurry up and run."
Jiraiya had summoned Gamabunta later in the battle, and the toad had joined the fight as soon as he arrived. Only now had he found a chance to speak.
But Jiraiya showed no intention of taking Gamabunta's advice. Seizing this brief opening, he gathered chakra within his body while staring grimly in Madara Uchiha's direction and said:
"Enough nagging. Do you think anyone targeted by the Rinnegan can escape? I've fought that guy Shin Uchiha before. In the eyes of his Rinnegan, everything I did was like a child's horseplay. Even the Toad Concealment Technique, my best hiding technique, couldn't let me escape if I used it right in front of him."
Yet after he finished speaking, Jiraiya saw Madara Uchiha, who had been engulfed in the sea of flames, fly leisurely out of it as though nothing had happened. There wasn't so much as a scorch mark on him.
"Is that all you've got? Or should I never have expected much from the shinobi of this era to begin with?"
Just as Madara Uchiha finished speaking, Jiraiya caught him off guard by leaping off Gamabunta. The senjutsu chakra within him surged, and a layer of white light seemed to coat his body. Combined with his hair, which had now grown dramatically, it made Jiraiya resemble a hedgehog glowing white. His white hairs