Orochimaru, who was busy preparing various matters for the unification of the ninja world, was told about Naruto by Tsunade who walked in with a serious look on his face.
He was stunned and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Jiraiya...
Konoha Sannin? Teacher of Uchiha Shisui and Namikaze Minato?
How could such a person exist? If Konoha really has a ninja with such qualifications, then this Fifth Hokage may not necessarily be his Orochimaru!
But what Naruto said was true, and he even resisted Tsunade's detection. This...
Orochimaru frowned. If one day, Jiraiya and Konoha faced each other, which side would Naruto stand on?
"I don't rule out that as you have guessed, someone implanted a false memory in order to control Naruto. If this is true, then that person has undoubtedly succeeded."
For Naruto to resist Tsunade like this, it is obvious that Jiraiya already occupies a very high status in Naruto's heart.
He took a long breath and said slowly
"But that's not what I'm most worried about..."
"What... do you mean?" Tsunade frowned, confused.
"What if..." Orochimaru lowered his head, rested his chin on the back of his crossed hands, and said in a deep voice
"What if it's us who are at fault?"
"You said that Jiraiya really existed?" Tsunade was shocked, with a look of disbelief on her face.
"But how is that possible? We don't have any impression of him in our memories. Are we going to forget the teammates we once fought with?!"
"That's what's so scary..." Orochimaru said with emotion, "If someone can really do this, how terrifying would he be?"
"It's not just the two of us. If we go by this conjecture, then even the traces of Jiraiya's existence have been wiped out. No one except Namikaze Naruto has any impression of him. What kind of power is this? No
, it is far beyond the level of strength..."
He slowly spit out the next twelve words
"That... is simply a god, a real god!"
Tsunade also fell into silence. She also could not imagine the possibility of erasing a person's past and present in the ninja world. This was not something that could be accomplished by pure violence.
If her rejection reaches the final stage, she may be able to completely reject a person's existence. But she can reject the present, but she cannot change the past!
She let out a long sigh, "No matter what it is... whether Naruto has been brainwashed or whether we have lost our memory, the question now is... how should we deal with Naruto?"
"Don't worry about him yet." Orochimaru shook his head. He looked to the west and said, "If it is the first possibility, then Naruto is a time bomb now. And according to him, that Jiraiya is also in the west.
Mainland, I think even if you don’t call him, he will go there to catch up.”
"If that's the case...will it be just me and Sasuke going together?"
"..." Orochimaru thought for a while and suddenly said, "Isn't Kakashi back yet?"
"No, it's just an S-level mission. It's normal to delay for some time."
Now the ninja world is in extreme chaos. Not all the new worlds work together to rebuild their homes like Konoha, but more of the order is broken.
In order to show its strength and muscles to the outside world, Konoha took action to take on the mission immediately after the reconstruction was completed.
As an elite Jonin, Kakashi's strength is even comparable to that of Kage, so his mission is naturally for the strongest ones.
"Counting the time, I should have been back yesterday or even the day before yesterday..." Orochimaru murmured.
"Forget it, if Kakashi doesn't come back, there will be no problem for Sasuke and I." Tsunade said simply, "What's more, isn't Kai also investigating the situation on the Western Continent?"
"Um……"
Orochimaru replied absently.
He is still thinking about Kakashi's disappearance. With Kakashi's strength, he shouldn't be delayed for such a long time. If he hasn't come back yet, there is a possibility that something unexpected happened along the way.
"Could it be related to Gremlin?"
After Tsunade left, Orochimaru whispered in the empty room
………………
"Uh..."
Slowly regaining consciousness in the darkness, Kai reluctantly opened his eyes.
Strange ceiling...
The room looked pretty good, and the bed was particularly soft, making Kai very comfortable to lie down on.
"you're awake?"
His consciousness had not fully recovered, and when he was about to take a look around, a majestic and solemn voice came from next to him.
Kai turned his head and looked over, and found that it was a man with long black and red hair, earrings hanging on his ears, and a fiery red flame pattern on his left forehead.
The person who came was none other than Enichi Tsukuni! With Naoto's reinforcements, he had gone far beyond the category of C-level cards, and the intersection of Feiten Sword Style and his own swordsmanship made his already superb swordsmanship even higher.
layer.
At this moment, he had a long knife on his waist. Although it was not unsheathed, it gave Kai the feeling that this man could kill anything.
Strong! Absolutely strong!
At this moment, Kai judged his strength. This was an enemy that he couldn't deal with without fully opening the Eight Gate Dunjia!
"Who are you……"
Kai struggled to do it, feeling the rapid recovery of strength in his body. He was no longer as weak as before.
"My name is Higu Seijuro."
"Uh, Higu Seijuro? I don't think I've heard of your name before."
Kai said embarrassedly. After all, he was not particularly good at remembering people. Except for those people he spent time with day and night, it would probably take him a long time to remember other people.
"It's not famous to begin with." Yuanyi said, rubbing the back of his head.
"An unknown swordsman is nothing nowadays."
"No, you are not some unknown swordsman!" Kai said seriously, "You are very strong, I can feel it."
"Of course it is, Bigu was the world's greatest swordsman more than five thousand years ago!"
At this time, a young man who was about 1.9 meters tall and wearing a black uniform, silver-white hair, and an eye patch walked in from the outside.
He spoke in a frivolous tone, "He was not only the heir to the strongest sect at the time, the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, but he was also the strongest among all previous heirs."
"Five, five thousand years ago?!!"
Kai's eyes widened and he said in shock
"Don't look at me like that. Besides, Enlightenment is even more amazing and he can live longer."
"After all, Satoru has survived since the wizarding era. Compared to me, who joined in the samurai era, it took a whole era earlier!"
"Age of Wizards?!"
Kai was completely shocked. He touched his hair and asked in surprise, "Who are you?!"
"The so-called Soul King's Guards, Division Zero."
Gojo Satoru put his hands in his trouser pockets, took two steps forward casually, and said at the same time, "Only the elites of each era are eligible to join, and there can only be one person from each era, so we are the strongest."
"The original origin era, the dragon era ruled by the Black King, the magic era established in the ruins of the dragon civilization, the demon era that destroyed magic and the wizard era in the same period, and then the modern era of samurai and ninja...
"
Speaking of this, Yuanyi answered and said
"Only one person in each era can join the Zero Division and receive Wang Jian's immortal body in the Soul King's Palace. Therefore, only the strongest elites of each era can join the Zero Division. This is the Soul King's guard. Zero
Squadron..."
"And I was the last one to join, so I'm probably the weakest among them."
"That's not the case. After all, after reaching that bottleneck, everyone's progress will slow down, so it's hard to say who is stronger and who is weaker. But..."
He paused, then said with a relaxed smile, "I'm confident that I won't lose to any of you, except of course that guy V."