"I'm just afraid Jiraiya's fate hasn't changed, and he's gotten killed off early instead. That would be the worst."
"If that's really what happens, I'm mailing razor blades to the game's developers."
"Haha! Even if you wanted to, you'd at least need to know their actual address, right?"
"Uh... well! I'll settle for venting. If we really piss off the developers, we're the ones who'll suffer!"
"Exactly. Other game companies have paid features, so they have to consider the players' feelings to some extent, but this game is different."
"After all, Hidden Jun Ninja is still in closed beta. It hasn't introduced any paid features, and it's even helped plenty of people online earn money. The players have absolutely no leverage over them, so how could they threaten them?"
"Leaving everything else aside, just judging by the game's current storyline, Jiraiya and Naruto Uzumaki aren't all that close yet, are they?"
"That's right. Naruto Uzumaki went with the others from Konoha to take part in the Chunin Tournament, and then a whole series of incidents happened. He hasn't had any chance to interact with Jiraiya!"
"It's possible they already met in Konoha before that, but if Jiraiya dies this early, it shouldn't have too profound an impact on Naruto Uzumaki, right?"
"Oh, right! If Jiraiya dies, there'll be no solution to Naruto Uzumaki's training from then on. The people of Konoha already dislike him, and if he can't improve his strength either..."
"With the way the game's story is going, could Naruto Uzumaki's personality change drastically, sending him down a completely different path?"
"If that really happens, I'd actually find it interesting. Naruto Uzumaki had such a painful, exhausting life in the original. Honestly, given those circumstances, I think it's remarkable that he didn't turn evil outright."
"Whoa! That's an