"You're worse than me...... Take a break here. ”

Helping Tsunade to sit down on a bench in the park, Jiraiya and Tsunade's faces were a little red, apparently just drunk.

"Xiao organization masters gathered, but you guy wants to send it to the door by himself!" Tsunade snorted lightly, didn't look at Jiraiya, and looked a little lonely.

didn't dare to communicate with her too much, so Zilai quickly stood up.

"So...... It's time to go! ”

"If even you die...... I ......" Tsunade muttered softly with his head down.

"Will you cry for me? What a pleasure! But...... I shouldn't be able to break it! Jirai couldn't help but laugh, but although he was laughing, this smile was a little hypocritical.

"Stupid!" Tsunade said helplessly.

"Then let's gamble!" Standing in front of Tsunade, Jiraiya hesitated for a moment and said.

"Huh?"

"Aren't you bound to lose every gamble! Bet I'll die this time! ”

"What?!"

"But on the contrary, if I can come back alive......" Jilai also wanted to say and stopped, but after all, he still couldn't say that sentence.

"If I can come back alive, will you marry me?" He couldn't have said that.

Because as a ninja with a special status, his life will never belong to him.

I didn't know that in that second, he would die.

So he never wanted to have such an agreement with Tsunade again, because he didn't want Tsunade to be as sad as before.

The self-deceiving Jirai actually didn't understand that his status in Tsunade's heart would not be lower than anyone else's.

"Aha, I'm kidding! Thank you, Tsunade. ”

“？” Tsunade didn't know why Jiraiya thanked her.

"Men become stronger because of broken love, all in all, the person who can take the broken love as a joke is the real man, and the broken love is nothing......"

"Is it a man's duty to be strong?" Tsunade asked rhetorically.

"Probably, and happiness is not something men pursue."

"Hmph...... What a handsome play, it's just a guy who hasn't even dated a girl! ”

……

The scene fell silent again, and after a few moments, Tsunade spoke.

"If something happens, contact me with a slug, and I'll rush over!"

"You can't leave the village, Konoha can't do without you now." Zilai also denied it.

"There are many ...... who are suitable for being Hokage"

"No...... There's no one in the village right now who is better suited to be the Hokage than you! ”

After that, the two chatted a lot. The topic seems a little unnutritious, but it seems that they don't want to be separated easily.

However, it was not early.

Turning around and leaving, he didn't say anything more, and the romance of men is not to look back when he leaves.

Under the sunset, he gave a thumbs up to Tsunade, and promised that he would definitely complete the task of intelligence gathering.

It was precisely because he didn't look back that he couldn't see the tears that slipped from the corners of Tsunade's eyes.

After arriving at a place close to the border of the Land of Rain, Jiraiya used the "Toad Hidden Technique" to infiltrate the Land of Rain, and everything seemed to be going very well.

However, he didn't know that Nagato had injected his chakra into the rain and could operate it freely in the perceptual ninjutsu - the Rain Tiger Freedom Technique.

From the moment he stepped into the Land of Rain, his whereabouts were revealed.

Although he initially gathered some inconsequential information, he was quickly found by Payne and Xiao Nan.

The battle is on the verge of breaking out......

There is no need to repeat the strength of Jiraiya, as one of the three former people, who was recognized by the "demigod of the ninja world" Hanzo, his own strength has basically reached the shadow level.

And after entering the immortal mode, his strength jumped to the super shadow level.

If he is familiar with Payne's attack patterns and various characteristics, he may not have a chance to defeat.

But the problem is that he still doesn't know anything about Payne's Six Ways.

Despite entering the immortal mode, he still fell into a bitter battle, and Jiraiya's situation was precarious.

But Jilai is also Zilai after all, and in the case of Payne's six and half dispatches, he "killed" all three Payne with one enemy and three times.

However, because he didn't know Payne, he was attacked by the "dead" Payne and lost an arm.

Not only that, but all of Payne's six realms have arrived, and Zilai has completely fallen into a desperate situation.

However, even now, with Jiraiya's strength, it is not impossible to escape, but he can't.

"It's been a surprise, now is the best opportunity to gather intelligence, there will never be such a good opportunity again!"

Gritted his teeth, even if the Fukasaku Immortal on his shoulder and the Shima Immortal had been persuading him to avoid the edge for the time being, he would definitely not escape.

……

Konoha Village, Hokage's office.

Looking out the window at the heavy rain, Tsunade didn't say a word.

"Jiraiya-sama will be fine, he's always ......" stood behind Tsunade and comforted Shizumi.

"That guy isn't coming back." Tsunade said suddenly.

“！” Mute couldn't help but be stunned.

"That's what I bet! But I'm bound to lose every gamble! Turning his head, a smile appeared on Tsunade's face. But hidden in the smile is a strong uneasiness.

Turning his head back again, Tsunade lowered his head and muttered to himself in a voice that he could only hear.

"When he comes back this time, it's time for him to stop being handsome!"

……

He was pinned to the ground by Payne Liudao, and the blood under Jiraiya's body had become a pool of blood.

"The situation is not good, consciousness is losing ......"

"Am I going to die?"

——

In the world of ninjas, the pursuit of death is not the pursuit of life.

Ninja is not about how to live, but how to die.

Recycle my whole life...... All failures.

Repeatedly rejected by Tsunade,

can't stop friends either,

Even the master and the apprentice can't protect it,

Compared to the Hokage, what I have done is insignificant.

I also want to die like the Hokage of the past,

Whether the story is wonderful or not lies in the last stroke.

It's okay to fail, I firmly believe it's a grind for me.

I will write off my failures and die as a hero.

That's how it should be......

Is it really okay to have such an ending?

——

Slowly opened his eyes, and he found that there was an unfamiliar figure standing beside him.

At this time, his bleeding wound had been frozen by the frost.

"As a book, if it ends like this, it will inevitably be too sloppy."

"Even if it's a bad book, I hope you can continue to write it and give the reader a happy ending."

"You...... Who are you? ”

Standing up, the man chuckled, but he couldn't see his specific expression because of the mask on his face.

"A freewheeling person, I'm here to change some things that I once regretted, that's all."

"A layman who doesn't like to think deeply, but just wants to see a happy end!"

——

PS: This chapter appears as a tribute to my favorite character in the Hokage.

As he himself said, his death was perfect and justified.

He didn't fail, he succeeded more than anyone else.

But he is so pitiful, his whole life has been dominated by that sentence of "fate", and he has never lived for himself.

So at least I hope that in my book, he can get a happy ending.