"Ahahaha..."
Jiraiya gave two dry laughs, awkwardness radiating from his whole body.
He raised his right hand to scratch his head, but the movement tugged at the shackles around his wrists.
The shackles swung, making a clear metallic clatter.
The sound made Jiraiya even more embarrassed, and in the end, he could only smile helplessly.
"Long time no see, Minato."
Jiraiya lowered his hands, seemingly drained of all strength to resist, reduced to a layabout who could only accept reality.
"I really never expected... it would be under circumstances like these."
"Neither did I... haha."
Minato Namikaze glanced at the shackles on Jiraiya's wrists, his tone growing a little more natural.
"After all, you are Jiraiya-sensei."
Before Naruto became a ninja.
The person among Konoha's ninja who could be called the "number one in unpredictability" was none other than Jiraiya!
Some things would seem shocking when anyone else did them, but were easy to accept when it was Jiraiya.
Like getting into the sex industry...
Like writing dirty books...
Like peeping into women's bathhouses...
That was Jiraiya!
"Minato."
Jiraiya quickly adjusted his mindset.
Minato Namikaze's "resurrection" was already an established fact.
What had happened could no longer be changed.
Jiraiya could only choose to accept the situation.
He looked at his student and asked a pointed question.
"What's going on with your current 'condition'? Have you really come back to life?"
"No."
Minato Namikaze shook his head, but did not immediately answer Jiraiya's question.
He looked at the Fifth Hokage, who sat to one side watching the show, and only began explaining after receiving an affirmative look from him.
"I haven't truly been 'resurrected.' The Fifth Hokage used the [Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu] to attach my soul to this body."
[Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu]?
Jiraiya frowned slightly and quickly searched