"His reach is way too far!!!"
"You can just ignore his orders. He's the Commander-in-Chief on the front lines, but you're a commander too, just not the overall one. You have the right to defy orders. Trust me, the Third Elder definitely won't blame you for it."
"But your man will!!! Your man will definitely come after me!!!"
"Then there's nothing I can do. Figure it out yourself."
"Forget I said anything. I can see it now—you two are working together specifically to bully me. Honest people like me are just so easy to bully!!!"
"You two..."
Oh no!!! The moment Jiraiya saw Tsunade seize on that phrase, his heart skipped a beat and his face stiffened.
"You bastard!! What kind of nonsense are you spouting?! Is that how you describe it?!"
Sure enough, Tsunade exploded in less than three seconds. Jiraiya immediately dropped to his knees, and the command headquarters was soon filled with chaos and Jiraiya's screams. The surrounding Konoha shinobi merely shook their heads, smiling as they watched. This sort of thing happened often.
Wherever Jiraiya was, there was never any shortage of such entertainment. Whether Hikaru was around or not, everyone felt their commander had masochistic tendencies. If he did not find someone to beat him up every so often, he could not keep his mouth—or certain behaviors—under control.
Those certain behaviors were what the female shinobi found most impossible to complain about. If they could, they truly wanted to punch Jiraiya twice and smash his damned eyes out!!!
In Hikaru's words, a dog could never stop eating shit. "The moment I leave, you start fooling around again. Will you die if you don't peep at women bathing or changing clothes?"
Sunagakure had been attacked, and the One-Tail had been taken away by mysterious figures. Six