Do More, Talk Less!

Making a major mistake was bad enough, but it also made it easy to suffer losses. It would be one thing if they gained some advantage, but if they gained nothing, it would become a joke. No one wanted to do something so thankless and exhausting.

The two villages were arguing fiercely on the surface, but there was little action in secret. Both sides were waiting for the person who held great power to arrive.

"I never expected a new Ninja War to come just a few years after the last one. I really don't know what Sunagakure is thinking, losing battle after battle and still fighting. I support Hikaru—how great would it have been to start the war first! Be more forceful!"

"What else can you do besides talk after the fact? Why didn't we see you when Hikaru made that proposal, Jiraiya? Now everything has been settled, and you jump out to say this kind of thing."

"He's hiding away writing that so-called pure love novel of his. When is Jiraiya going to publish it?"

Jiraiya's complaint was immediately met with Tsunade's merciless blow. When proposals were needed, he was nowhere to be found. Now that he was no longer needed, he came running out to whine. If that wasn't hindsight, what was? This big sister deeply despised him.

Tsunade was not the only one to strike Jiraiya. Hatake Sakumo followed up with another jab. Jiraiya was constantly gathering material for his supposedly pure love novels, and what had always made Sakumo want to laugh was that Jiraiya gathered his material in red-light districts—from women.

This so-called pure love novel was actually the Icha Icha Paradise that Kakashi Hatake loved so much...

"Tch, what do you know? This is called research, understand? Research!" Jiraiya retorted shamelessly.

Tsunade shook