The original Hokage World.
Konoha.
The door to the Hokage's Office was suddenly kicked open.
Minato Namikaze's clone, who was busy working, jumped in fright.
"Lady Tsunade, why are you here again?"
Minato Namikaze looked at the furious Tsunade and spoke helplessly.
"Minato, tell me. Where exactly did Jiraiya go?"
At Tsunade's question, Minato fell silent before saying, "Didn't I already tell you? He and my original went out to take care of something!"
"Stop lying to me, Minato. Rin already got the truth out of Obito. He said you have a recording here, one concerning Jiraiya's life and death. Is that true?"
With Tsunade putting it that way, Minato could only nod stiffly.
"If you have it, let me see it!"
Minato hesitated at her words.
"Maybe we should just..."
Before Minato could finish, Tsunade slammed her fist into the desk. "Give it to me!"
In the end, Minato took out the recording and played it on the projector in the office.
The footage wasn't very long. From Jiraiya entering Rōran to his death, and even everyone being swallowed by the dragon vein at the end, it totaled just over ten minutes...
After Tsunade finished watching, her heart felt as though a huge hand had gripped it tight, and even breathing grew difficult.
In the end, she left the Hokage's Office in a daze without even saying goodbye.
Seeing this, Minato Namikaze sighed. "If you knew it would come to this... why hold back your feelings?"
But... all of this was part of Minato Namikaze's scheme.
He had kept the recording from Tsunade and deliberately concealed it, all to make her believe they were hiding something. That way... her emotions would erupt even more violently once the truth came out.
Back in the parallel Hokage World.
The two