Outside Konoha, Danzō was moving with a group of Root ninjas in a direction away from Konoha... or it could be said that they were fleeing.
Suddenly feeling the light behind him, Danzō stopped and looked back, and saw the scene of the sun falling towards Konoha.
A drop of cold sweat flowed out, and Danzō's single eye was full of horror.
It had to be said that Danzō was really not able to get on the stage. He had caused the trouble, but he was the first to slip away.
Not to mention whether he should take responsibility himself. Just saying that since he planned to become the Hokage, then he should stand up at this time and show his responsibility.
As a result, he ran away first with his confidants. How could the ninjas of Konoha support such a person to become the Hokage?
Danzō also had unspeakable bitterness. He was originally waiting for news in the base. With such a powerful force that could suppress the tailed beast, it wouldn't be Danzō if he didn't reach out.
With Hiruzen Sarutobi sacrificing himself, no one could limit him anymore.
But who would have thought that the roof of his underground base would be directly lifted off? It was clearly just a young girl, but who would have thought she would be so terrifying!
Drake had long known where the Root base was through his aura, so he directly let Stella go to settle the score. And Stella naturally wouldn't show mercy to the mastermind behind the scenes.
If he hadn't mastered the Uchiha clan's forbidden technique Izanagi, he would probably have been killed.
Even so, a large number of Root ninjas had risked their lives to buy him a chance to escape. Because of this, his Root only had a dozen people left by his side.
But this could also be said to be self-inflicted, but Danzō himself wouldn't reflect on it.
Of course, Danzō didn't have the idea of going back and facing the danger with the others now. In his heart, he was now Konoha's last hope.
That fireball had already reached the scale of most of Konoha, making a large number of ninjas below show desperate eyes.
Because Konoha had the Uchiha and Sarutobi clans, two ninja clans that were good at Fire Release ninjutsu, the Konoha ninjas were actually best at Fire Release.
But the most terrifying Fire Release ninjutsu they had ever seen couldn't compare to even a tenth of that fireball's terror.
The fireball fell extremely slowly, as if it was deliberately letting them feel a sense of powerlessness.
Despair couldn't help but make these people lose the courage to resist, and some even dropped the ninja swords in their hands on the ground.
But Konoha had never lacked people who stood up at critical moments.
"How can we give up at this time!"
A strangely accented voice rang out, and a giant toad holding a huge long sword appeared in a cloud of smoke.
The one who was speaking was the white-haired man on top of the toad's head. The man put on an exaggerated pose and said loudly, "Jiraiya the Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku is here!"
Jiraiya regretted it very much. He shouldn't have chased out so far when he discovered Orochimaru's traces. By the time he came back, Drake had already created that spark in his hand.
But how could he dodge at this time? And under his appeal, Kakashi and the others also cheered up.
"Everyone, let's go together and detonate it directly. We must not let it fall on the village!"
With someone encouraging them, the other Konoha ninjas also took action one after another and began to form hand seals.
Jiraiya completed the hand seals, and the Toad Oil Flame Bullet that he and Gamabunta launched together shot towards the fireball.
Following closely, the various ninjutsu of the other Konoha ninjas also hit it.
The surface of the fireball fluctuated like the surface of water, and then the downward trend stopped. Two seconds later, the fireball collapsed and scattered into a nebula-like shape.
Drake certainly didn't want to cause a massacre, so this fireball was originally used for demonstration, and would only explode horizontally at a certain height.
The red flame storm that spread out destroyed everything at this height, including Konoha's landmark, the Hokage Rock!
Let me state in advance that this wasn't intentional by Drake. It was the Konoha ninjas' attacks that made the fireball explode in advance, so the explosion position was slightly higher than expected, and just affected the Hokage Rock.
The flames dissipated, and the people of Konoha also saw Drake, who was still floating in mid-air.
Jiraiya spread out his hands to show that he had no hostility, and said, "The attack just now wasn't to eliminate us, right? Then can we have a good chat?"
Sure enough, showing strength was the first step to equal communication.
Now Jiraiya was the mainstay of Konoha, and after seeing that Drake had the ability to destroy Konoha completely, the others naturally wouldn't have any objections.
Drake landed and stared at Jiraiya, but didn't give him a good look, and said coldly, "So you're willing to have a good chat now?"
Jiraiya looked around. Although that giant fireball had only destroyed the Hokage Rock, the previous battle had also turned half of Konoha into ruins.
"Although I don't know what happened, please don't destroy our village! Please believe that we can resolve the misunderstanding in a better way."
To tell the truth, Drake didn't like Jiraiya this person.
When he first came into contact with Naruto, Drake had indeed been moved by "The toad at the bottom of the well drifts out to sea". It was just that as Drake's own beliefs matured, he found that this man really didn't get along with him.
Jiraiya's choice after learning that prophecy from the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku was something that Drake couldn't agree with.
Admittedly, the dream of hoping for world peace was great, but putting everything on the appearance of a savior made what Jiraiya thought was "mutual recognition between people" a joke.
Not relying on his own efforts to realize his dream, but instead relying on the future of the prophecy, Jiraiya's life was really as he himself said, a failure.
For the sake of a prophecy, he failed to protect his disciples and teacher, and failed to prevent many tragedies that could have been prevented.
Especially for Naruto... this child whose parents named him after the protagonist of Jiraiya's novel, Jiraiya should have been the one to take care of him after Minato and Kushina sacrificed themselves.
The result was that he was still looking for the so-called savior while Naruto was enduring the malice of the entire Konoha.
Drake couldn't agree with Jiraiya, but he had to admit that this man still had extraordinary abilities.
At least his solemn but gentle expression now was still very touching, both showing that Konoha no longer had any hostility, and also showing the determination to continue fighting after the negotiations broke down.
Drake withdrew the flames and said, "I also find it boring, so let's end this farce here!"
Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what happened next, the village had been saved!
...
After an emergency meeting, Jiraiya finally knew what had happened.
Did that old friend of his teacher have some kind of serious illness? Even with Jiraiya's personality, he couldn't help but have this idea.
You had to know that although it was a time of peace now, who knew when the next ninja war would suddenly break out!
The other ninja villages' covetousness for Konoha had never disappeared.
Especially at this time, having just experienced the Konoha Crush event, Konoha was at its most complicated state.
It wouldn't be impossible for other ninja villages to launch an attack while taking advantage of the opportunity of the Third Hokage's sacrifice.
And Danzō jumped out to cause trouble at this time, was he afraid that Konoha wouldn't be chaotic enough?
Especially after hearing that Danzō had already run away, Jiraiya had an even bigger headache.
His teacher's other two old friends weren't easy to deal with either, and had been clamoring for Fairy Tail to compensate for the losses.
Jiraiya understood their idea of wanting to get back face for Konoha, but why didn't they think about how they would end the situation if the other party refused?
After finally getting the two Hokage advisors to withdraw this death-seeking idea, they brought up the old story again and wanted Jiraiya to succeed the Fifth Hokage.
Konoha did need a new Hokage to stabilize the situation at this time of turmoil, and whether it was from strength or prestige, Jiraiya was definitely the most suitable candidate now.
But Jiraiya still refused in the end, but he promised to bring Tsunade, another of the Sannin, back to the village.
Of course, before that, he had to deal with the matter about Fairy Tail.
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