Looking at his three types of haki, Sōkyū Hatake nodded in satisfaction. With this, his strength could rise another notch.
"Little Sōkū? Little Sōkū?" Seeing that Sōkyū Hatake kept ignoring him, Jiraiya could not help giving him a shove.
"Huh? You're still here?" Only then did Sōkyū Hatake snap out of the system. So Jiraiya was still beside him.
"You little..." Jiraiya stared at Sōkyū Hatake, his face darkening. Do you seriously not even count me as a person?
"Never mind, never mind. Isn't it about time you reported to the Kirigakure border?" Sōkyū Hatake said with an awkward laugh.
"Just about. I won't be going over to the Operations Command Room. If anything comes up, just have Minato contact me through a toad." Jiraiya patted Sōkyū Hatake on the shoulder, then headed straight off in another direction.
Watching Jiraiya leave, Sōkyū Hatake smiled faintly.
Jiraiya really did seem calm and carefree on the surface, but he was actually a very sentimental person.
"Did Master Jiraiya leave?" After Sōkyū Hatake returned to the Operations Command Room, Minato Namikaze raised his head from behind a mountain of documents.
"Yeah. He said he wouldn't come over here and would head straight to the Kirigakure border to report in," Sōkyū Hatake said.
"Damn it!" In a very uncharacteristic display, Minato Namikaze glared at Sōkyū Hatake in fury.
"What's wrong?"
"Master Jiraiya left me a huge pile of unfinished paperwork!!!" Minato Namikaze stared fiercely at Sōkyū Hatake.
"Hahaha! I was wondering why he was in such a hurry to leave. So he was afraid you'd settle the score afterward." Sōkyū Hatake looked at Minato Namikaze with undisguised glee.
"Just you wait. If I'm suffering here, you're not getting off easy either. Sōkū, you have to help me," Minato Namikaze said outright. He even pointed