Jiraiya made no attempt to be polite, walked into the hall, and sat down in front of a chair.
The surrounding ninjas quickly closed the door.
Rows of seats were placed on both sides of the hall, and a tall chair was placed on the high steps.
Nagato sat in his chair, looking down at the crowd below.
" Jiraiya-sensei, you can say what you have to say now, but leave afterward, or I might kill you."
Jiraiya stood up and loudly questioned, " Nagato, Yahiko, you're here, don't you have anything to say?"
Nagato stared coldly at Jiraiya and said, "He's not Yahiko! Yahiko is dead!"
Jiraiya retorted without hesitation, " Nagato, take a closer look at him. He is Yahiko, a Yahiko who shares the same dream! You have betrayed the original intention of your Akatsuki!"
Can your so-called methods truly bring peace? Look at the villagers outside; they live in your fear. Do you want the world to become like this?
" Jiraiya-sensei! Don't mention Yahiko again! It was our naivety that killed him!"
I will not follow Yahiko's path again. Peace cannot be achieved without overwhelming power. Only fear can stop war!
Jiraiya, his face grim and filled with anguish, said, " Nagato, your idea is too dangerous!"
You will only incite war! Fear brings only suffering to people. Your so-called ideals are also built on people's suffering.
Nagato stood up, a dangerous glint in his eyes, and said, " Jiraiya-sensei, I will still call you 'sensei' for now. You live in a great ninja village like Konoha, so you can't understand the suffering faced by a small country like ours."
All wars were started by you great powers, yet you have inflicted suffering upon us. Only suffering can awaken great powers to the truth.
Only enough pain can frighten you.
"Go away. You brought Yahiko with you today, so I won't kill you. But if you stand in my way again next time, I will definitely kill you."
Jiraiya's face was grim, his expression a mixture of regret and disappointment. He never imagined that the innocent boy he once knew would become what he was now.
Shinsei clapped his hands, and applause rang out in the empty room.
"Let me explain, and then you can continue arguing."
Shinsei pointed to the bewildered Yahiko beside him and said, "He was brought from another world. And I can not only bring people here, but also bring people from here to the other world."
So I took One-Tail with me, therefore you can never synthesize the Ten-Tails without my permission. And as for creating powerful weapons, that's out of the question."
After Shinsei finished speaking, the hall fell silent.
Nagato did not doubt Shinsei's words. Since he could bring Yahiko from another world, he could naturally bring Gaara over as well.
For a long time, Nagato's ideal was to combine the Nine Tailed Beasts into the Ten-Tails, because only in this way could the world be at peace.
Now that the One-Tail is missing, the Ten-Tails plan has failed. Even if there is some One-Tail Chakra left, it can still be used to synthesize an incomplete Ten-Tails.
But now he has no One -One-Tail Chakra left, and he doesn't know how his plan can continue.
So, is our current power enough to threaten the entire world?
He once thought he could, but his last encounter at sea in the Land of Water told him that he was still far from having the power he needed.
"Aren't you two arguing anymore?" Shinsei said with a smile. "Then let me say something. Nagato- kun, I actually agree with your plan. Putting myself in your shoes, I'd probably think the same way you do."
The wars in this world stem more from the greed of the rulers. Have you noticed? This world's population is far from reaching its limit, and there is still plenty of land to be developed. Yet, people still choose to wage war.
Throughout history, war has never ceased. I've always pondered how to stop war. Is it, as Lord Jiraiya suggested, through mutual understanding between people?
Shinsei shook his head and continued, "That idea is far too naive."
Jiraiya didn't think much of it Jiraiya heard his ideas called naive, since he wasn't the only one saying that.
Experience has shown that relying on people's desires for peace is futile. Only unity, by uniting the entire world, can bring peace to the world!
Jiraiya couldn't believe his ears. He pointed at Shinsei's nose and shouted, " Shinsei! What are you saying? How could you have such a dangerous idea? I'm going back to tell Tsunade! She absolutely will not agree to her passing the Hokage position to you!"
Shinsei shrugged indifferently and said, "The teacher already knew. Lord Jiraiya, my suggestion is much more reliable than yours."
Jiraiya blushed deeply; Shinsei's words had shocked him far more than Nagato had.
Weren't we here to persuade Nagato to abandon the Tailed Beast Plan? But from Shinsei's words, he's going to implement the plan himself!
"Do you know how much harm unification would cause to the world? I will never allow you to do that!"
Jiraiya seemed to have forgotten the purpose of his visit; he now needed to quickly dispel Shinsei's dangerous thoughts.
As Tsunade's disciple, Shinsei has a high chance of becoming Hokage in the future. Moreover, Tsunade is currently managing the village in a very lazy manner, and she can hold power even without him becoming Hokage.
Nagato wants peace, but he still needs to collect the Tailed Beast and missing-nin to intimidate the world. Shinsei wants peace, but he has plenty of people willing to help him.
On the surface, everyone in Konoha longs for peace and does not want war. However, if a war could be won, there is a large group of people who secretly support this idea.
Jiraiya grabbed Shinsei's wrist and dragged him outside.
He was no longer in the mood to persuade Nagato. If things continued like this, either Nagato would join Konoha, or Shinsei would join Akatsuki.
Nagato and the masked man are terrifying enough, but if Shinsei is added to the mix, Jiraiya know who else could stop them.
Feeling the power coming from his hands, Shinsei planted his body firmly on the ground, Jiraiya pulled, he couldn't budge him an inch.
" Lord Jiraiya, I was just saying it, I didn't say I had to do it now. In any case, you should let others finish speaking! If you won't even let them speak, then the mutual understanding that Lord Jiraiya talks about is just me understanding you, and not you understanding me?"
Jiraiya chuckled awkwardly and released his hand.
Shinsei's words were too sharp. Mutual understanding between people naturally requires communication. If I don't let him finish speaking, mutual understanding will lose its foundation and become a joke.
However, he decided to ignore whatever Shinsei wanted to say and absolutely not let him start a war.
Children today have no idea about the suffering caused by war; they only think of war as a series of numbers on a book.
Nagato sat down again, never having imagined that this genius boy also yearned for peace. Although their ideas differed greatly, they also shared many commonalities. There was no contradiction between them; in fact, there was even a possibility of cooperation.
A round of applause erupted from the hall.