Jing Xiu had no intention of stopping what he was doing. He merely spared a moment to sense the newcomer.
"Jiraiya, why are you here instead of protecting Tsunade in the Land of Iron?"
The Five Kage were not Jing Xiu's enemies.
His goal was also different from that of Obito Uchiha or Madara Uchiha in the original timeline.
So he had never considered going to the Land of Iron to deal with the Five Kage.
"Young Uchiha."
"Even now, I still cannot reconcile you with that figure who, for the village..."
"Risked his life fighting the Third Mizukage, Yuki Shirakawa!"
"How could you be so ruthless toward a comrade from the village?"
"He's your clansman!"
Jing Xiu's expression turned odd. "Jiraiya, as a comrade of the Fifth Hokage and the teacher of the Fourth Hokage..."
"How could you think a rogue ninja from Konoha is still Konoha's comrade?"
Jiraiya froze for a moment. "Whatever else he may be, he's still your clansman!"
Jing Xiu smiled faintly. "But he slaughtered over thirty-seven hundred members of the Uchiha clan!"
"More than two thousand of them were ordinary people who hadn't mastered chakra."
"Why would you plead for someone like that?"
Jiraiya looked at Uchiha Itachi in disbelief. He had met Itachi when he was young.
Clever and capable, with the mindset of a Hokage, he had been a rare talent who could become a pillar of the village.
He had never imagined that Itachi's hands were drenched in his clansmen's blood.
He looked at Itachi, whose entire body was gradually charring, with a wet patch beneath him that gave off a pungent smell.
"Killing someone only takes a stroke. Why must you torture him like this?"
Although Jing Xiu's eyes were closed, he turned toward Kimimaro.
Kimimaro understood what Jing Xiu