"Don't put it that way, could it be that you're going to arrest me, Tsunade?"
Although he still had white hair, his face and physique had changed a great deal; if they hadn't been teammates for ten years, Tsunade would have had a hard time recognizing Jiraiya.
"I have no interest in arresting you, but I also have no interest in having any involvement with a Konoha Missing-nin; no matter what reason you have, don't come looking for me."
Tsunade drank a cup of shochu, then said with a displeased look: "Back then, I went and pleaded with Orochimaru for you, which was already more than enough; otherwise, did you think he would send Minato Namikaze to accompany you to play games all over the world? What a complete idiot."
The more she went on, the greater the fire in Tsunade's heart became; this guy Jiraiya defected from Konoha for some minor reason-what did he take the identity of a Konoha Ninja to be?
"Tsunade, I left Konoha for a reason; for the peace of the Shinobi World, this was a choice with no other way."
Jiraiya knew what kind of personality Tsunade had; the harsher she cursed, the more it meant she still considered you a friend. If Tsunade had told him to leave right off the bat, or treated him with cold indifference and notified Konoha and so on.
That would truly count as real disappointment; at least right now, there was still room for maneuver.
"Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest are revered as the Three Great Sage Lands, not just because they possess powerful Senjutsu, but also because of their wisdom accumulated over a millennium. Tsunade, although I don't know what abilities the sage of Shikkotsu Forest has, I can tell you what that miraculous