Chapter 602: Another traitor among us?
"and many more--!"
Tsunade wanted to say something, but Nagato hung up the phone very decisively.
After Nagato ended his control, Edo Tensei Jiraiya regained his freedom of consciousness. Of course, he also knew all of Nagato's previous declaration of conquest against Tsunade.
At this point, he finally understood.
It's all over.
Konoha is really beyond saving...
Once Nagato and the new Akatsuki organization he represents start attacking Konoha, Konoha will be unable to stop them with its current level of combat power!
The destruction of Konoha Village and the death of everyone in the battle were almost inevitable.
Jiraiya knew very well that the current Nagato was no longer the shy and kind little disciple he once was.
"asshole!"
“What a jerk!”
"Jiraiya, this is the disciple you taught?"
"I'm so angry! I..."
Tsunade was still roaring and venting her anger, wishing she could smash Nagato to pieces with one punch, but unfortunately the person in front of her was Edo Tensei Jiraiya, not Nagato himself.
Zilai never spoke a word, just sighed with regret.
Apparently he hasn't gotten over the frustration of failing again...
"Why are not you talking?"
"Can you stop being such a wimp!"
"We still have time, and we don't necessarily lose!"
Tsunade slapped Jiraiya again and yelled at him, trying to arouse Jiraiya's fighting spirit.
The war hasn't even started yet and you're already so cowardly.
Can you be a little tougher?
"What else can we do?" Jiraiya sighed quietly, with no fighting spirit at all.
"The current Akatsuki organization, including Nagato, are all Impure World Reincarnation, right?"
"Yes."
"Then we just need to find and eliminate the caster who resurrected them, and maybe we can win in one fell swoop!"
Tsunade encouraged with hope and high morale.
Hearing this, Jiraiya smiled bitterly. This idea was nice, but unfortunately it was just a delusion.
So what if I find it?
It is said that there is a sage standing behind Nagato now; even if you find him, can you defeat a god and force him to release the Impure World Reincarnation?
If you really have that kind of power, why would you be afraid of the Akatsuki organization?
"No chance. There is a sage supporting Nagato right now. That is why Konoha has no chance of winning."
"Immortal? What immortal?"
"I'm not sure, but it should be Nagato and the others who were resurrected by the other party."
"Have you seen it?"
"without……"
"Then how can you be sure?"
"Itachi told me..."
"Uchiha Itachi? The traitor who wiped out his clan? Can you trust his words?"
"He is not a traitor. The Third Generation sent him to be an undercover agent in the Akatsuki organization..."
"Hiss! Is there such a thing? Why didn't the old man tell us anything? Even if that's the case, the entire Uchiha clan shouldn't be sacrificed!"
"Anyway, he shouldn't lie to me."
Jiraiya said confidently that he was quite good at judging people.
"But the latest information I got is that a masked man with a Sharingan is controlling the Akatsuki organization behind the scenes. He is not an immortal."
"Masked man, who is that?"
"I'm not sure, but is it possible that there is no immortal at all, and that guy manipulated Uchiha Itachi to deceive you?"
"This……"
"Isn't that possible?"
"It is possible, but..."
"No buts! This is the truth! If there really is an immortal or god, wouldn't that old toad from your Myoboku Mountain know about it? Would my living slug immortal not know about it?"
"This must be all a scam set up by them, Jiraiya, you've been fooled!"
Tsunade seemed to have understood all the clues and made the decision with great certainty.
This even made Jiraiya start to doubt himself.
After all, he had never seen any immortals with his own eyes.
Everything came from the oral statements of Nagato and Itachi, and since both Nagato and Itachi were Impure World Beings, there was no guarantee that they would not be manipulated by someone behind the scenes.
"Could it be that I was really deceived?"
"Let's not worry about whether you were deceived or not. Anyway, no matter who the enemy is, we will not surrender! What are you going to do next?"
Tsunade asked proactively.
Jiraiya perked up a bit and gave an answer:
"I don't know either. Maybe when they start attacking, I will be controlled by Nagato again?"
"So I have to take this opportunity to get as far away from Konoha Village and the battlefield as possible."
"By then, even if I'm controlled, I can still get back a little bit."
"No matter what, I don't want to hurt any Konoha ninja..."
Tsunade groaned, then ordered:
"Then why don't you take this opportunity to search for the enemy's mastermind. Only by finding him can we have a chance of winning. That guy must be here too, right?"
"Okay! I'll leave right away!"
Jiraiya didn't dare to delay. Every minute that he had before being forcibly controlled by Nagato was extremely precious.
We must hurry and get away from Konoha.
Fortunately, Nagato did not directly control himself to attack Tsunade, which was considered as him retaining some dignity.
Jiraiya prepared to leave.
When he reached the door, he paused.
He mustered up all his courage, and with the realization and regret after death, he suddenly opened his heart and said:
"Tsunade, I've always liked you! So, please don't die!"
"Jiraiya, you..."
Tsunade was shocked, she didn't expect that this damn guy would confess to her at this time. He is such an idiot!
It made her feel both excited and angry, a very complicated feeling.
But before Tsunade could respond, Jiraiya pushed the door open and left the room.
And Edo Tenshin Jiraiya just went out.
Then he collided head-on with another figure coming towards him.
"Naruto?"
"Teacher Jiraiya?!!"
One big and one small, one old and one young, stared at each other and stood there in a daze.
……
...
Meanwhile, on the other side.
In the outer area dozens of kilometers away from Konoha Village, a large force of the Akatsuki organization has already gathered here.
Since Nagato had announced in advance that he would visit Konoha today, he would certainly not break his promise.
In the entire Rain Village, except for a few Jinchūriki from Nagato's new Impure World Reincarnation Corps who stayed behind, all the others were brought here.
There are more than ten Kage-level fighters and more than a hundred elite jonin of the Impure World...
All present.
In this battle, Konoha Village will be destroyed!
now.
Seeing Nagato regain consciousness after controlling Jiraiya, Konan beside him also guessed the result:
"Failed?"
"Well, Konoha refused to surrender..."
"Teacher Jiraiya is still not good enough."
"It's just as expected. I didn't expect him to succeed in the first place. I just wanted to give Jiraiya-sensei a little dignity as a way of repaying the kindness of his education."
Nagato responded calmly, obviously not having a good opinion of Jiraiya from the beginning.
If the female Hokage named Tsunade could be easily persuaded, Konoha Village would not have been almost wiped out last time.
Of course, I won't be that lucky this time.
"However, I did find some interesting things along the way."
"what's up?"
"Konoha seems to have known that we successfully resurrected the Ten-Tails."
"What? How would they know?"
Xiaonan and others were all shocked.
The resurrection of the Ten-Tails has been the biggest secret of Akatsuki organization these days. Apart from high-ranking officials such as Nagato, almost no one knows about it.
How could Konoha know this in advance?
"It is said that someone told Naruto through his dream."
"Dream?"
"It sounds a bit weird, doesn't it?"
"But there are actually two possibilities: either someone is monitoring Akatsuki with abilities beyond my ability; or there is a traitor among us who secretly passed the information to Konoha Village."
As soon as these words came out.
Everyone immediately turned their eyes to the Evil World Uchiha Itachi on the right.
With the entire village covered by Yuhu's jutsu, almost no one could bypass Nagato's perception and secretly spy on them.
That leaves only one possibility: a traitor.
If you were to ask who in the current Akatsuki organization is most likely to tip off Konoha, it would only be the well-known traitor Itachi-san!
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