As soon as Sage Fukasaku appeared, he stared in shock at Gamabunta, who had been frozen into an enormous ice sculpture nearby.
"What... happened here? Little Jiraiya, what sort of terrifying enemy did you provoke?"
Jiraiya had no time to answer Fukasaku's question. Instead, he turned his head and spoke directly to the two sages.
"Lord Fukasaku, Lady Shima, there's no time to explain everything now. The situation is critical. Let's merge immediately!"
Hearing Jiraiya's grave tone, Fukasaku roughly understood how serious the situation was and dared not delay.
He nodded, his expression solemn. "All right! Let's begin!"
Sage Shima, beside him, glanced at the frozen Gamabunta, then looked past the ice sculpture toward Raito nearby.
Behind him, two incredibly ferocious ice dragons soared into the sky, frozen in roaring poses. Some kind of special sealing patterns even flowed across their bodies!
Was this boy before them Little Jiraiya's current enemy?
He was radiating dense tailed beast chakra. Did that mean he was an extremely dangerous jinchūriki?
A jinchūriki had actually driven Little Jiraiya into such a panic. It seemed his strength absolutely could not be underestimated.
And judging by his face, he was merely a teenage brat.
When had such an absurdly powerful brat appeared among humans? Had the world changed?
Raito watched Jiraiya race against time to prepare to enter Sage Mode together with the Toad Sages of Mount Myōboku.
Under these circumstances, Raito did not rush to interrupt the casting like an ordinary villain. Instead, he watched with interest.
Of course, in a genuine fight to the death, an enemy would never give Jiraiya so much preparation time.
Great Sage, begin analysis!
[Great Sage: Command confirmed. Performing Comprehensive Analysis Computation on the energy changes in the target, Jiraiya.]
*Analyze those two old toads' chakra flows