On the grassland.
After resting for quite some time, Jiraiya and the other two finally expelled all the poison from their bodies.
Tsunade took a deep breath and smiled. "Jiraiya, you seemed pretty nervous just now!"
"When was I?" Jiraiya raised an eyebrow awkwardly.
"When Orochimaru wanted to trade Dan and Nawaki for me treating his arms..."
A trace of sorrow flashed through Tsunade's eyes.
Although those two had been dead for many years, she had still never truly let them go.
She pressed, "What would you have done if I had agreed back then?"
Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head and gave a carefree smile, speaking as if he did not mean much by it.
"What could I have done? At most, I'd have killed you."
However, when he spoke the latter half of that sentence, his expression suddenly turned incomparably vicious.
He looked off into the distance again, his tone graver than ever before.
"Konoha isn't just your Konoha. It's mine too!"
"Even if I won't become Hokage, the Will of Fire has never been far from me for a single day!"
Seeing how serious and earnest he was, Tsunade's body trembled slightly before she broke into a bright smile.
Konoha, Invincible Scratch-off.
The sun had already set halfway, and dusk was upon them.
As usual, Wu Di stood on the upper floor overlooking the street. If no customers came, he was ready to close up.
At that moment, four people wearing purple waist sashes walked over.
Wu Di was no stranger to them.
They were Orochimaru's Four Heavenly Kings: Kidomaru, Tayuya, Sakon and Ukon, and Jirobo, the ones responsible for setting up the Four Violet Flames Formation during the Konoha Crush plan.
If he remembered correctly, there should also have been someone named Kimimaro waiting