"Naraku, are you all right?"
Jiraiya looked Naraku over with concern. Only after seeing how relaxed he looked did he feel reassured.
"I'm fine. The enemy has been defeated. But those people were all puppets. Their real bodies are long gone, and there's no telling where."
Shihōin Naraku indicated that he was fine, then briefly explained the outcome of the battle.
"Naraku, you're amazing! Can you teach me how to get stronger?"
Naruto Uzumaki excitedly came up to him and looked at him with admiration, waving his arms and striking several fighting poses to imitate Naraku's earlier battle.
"Sure, but you might not be able to learn it."
Naraku smiled at Naruto. With his sensory abilities, he had already clearly detected traces of lingering Nine-Tails chakra on Naruto Uzumaki.
This showed that Jiraiya was indeed deliberately training Naruto, hoping to have him master the Nine-Tails and become a proper jinchūriki.
The results, however, were not particularly apparent.
While Naruto kept chattering away, Jiraiya came over and asked quietly, "Were the enemies' bodies completely destroyed? Or..."
"Not completely. There should still be an enemy's body over there. The puppet that fought me at the end."
Naraku pointed toward the distant battlefield, where smoke still lingered. A small hill formed from a huge pile of rubble stood out.
The surrounding ground had been torn beyond recognition by the gravitational pull of Planetary Devastation, with deep pits here and depressions there. Groundwater had even seeped through several fissures in the earth and flowed everywhere.
The small hill Naraku pointed at had, of course, formed from the fragments that fell when the sphere created by Planetary Devastation broke apart.
"I'll go take a look!"
Before he had even finished speaking, Jiraiya headed toward the small hill.
Although Naraku had already told him that the