Konoha Village, Hokage's office.

In the mountains of papers, Tsunade was sitting in a chair and correcting the papers.

After a long time, Tsunade, who felt a slight sore shoulder, finally put down the pen in his hand, leaned back on the back of the chair and stretched his waist, and his proud figure was undoubtedly revealed at this moment.

Suddenly, a short, sharp tapping sound from the glass of the Hokage Room interrupted Tsunade's moment of relaxation.

Looking back, it turned out to be a pigeon that had landed on the windowsill, tapping nimbly on the glass with its beak at the front end.

Tsunade got up and opened the window, took the pigeon to his hand, and pulled out the letter tied to the pigeon's leg.

Tsunade, see the words as faces.

Seeing these words, Tsunade understood that it was Jiraiya's regular contact.

Every once in a while, Jiraiya sends the latest information to Tsunade, mainly important information that has been gathered recently.

Although it is important information, in fact, since Jiraiya left the village with Naruto, there is not much important information, either the leftover news of the small country of the projectile, or the settlement of some ruffians who occupy remote areas.

And this time, Tsunade saw the contents of Jiraiya's letter, and his eyes suddenly became solemn.

In this contact with Jiraiya, it was mentioned that there was a creature that could be some kind of new otherworldly creature.

Man-eating rats.

Jiraiya and Naruto found these creatures in the underground caverns hidden in the Temple of Fire, and saw the swineherds that had probably kept these man-eating rats for thousands of years in a spiritism-like or some other way.

These man-eaters are no different from ordinary rats in size and appearance, but they are extremely ferocious, and have an incomparable thirst for human flesh, even rushing to the surface and eating a monk of the Fire Temple.

And in the end, it was estimated that the number of this man-eating rat exceeded one million after the traces left at the scene, and it took more than half a month for the monks of the Fire Temple to clean up the corpses of these rats.

It is speculated that the existence of these man-eating rats is related to the infamous history of the Temple of Fire in the past, as more than a dozen bottomless pits have been discovered in the underground caverns of the Temple of Fire, which still contain countless human bones that have been processed by humans.

In the midst of these pits, Jiraiya also mentions a "roar from other worlds".

...

This roar I will never forget, it was not a beast, it was not a man.

It was a roar from another dimension, another dimension, like a demon from the depths of hell, or some other unimaginable being.

It's indescribable, but it's impressive...

To this day, I still feel the intense palpitations I felt at that time, and occasionally I wake up from my sleep when I re-face those fears and uneasiness in my dreams

I can't imagine what kind of existence lurks in that pit, I just hope that it has nothing to do with the doomsday prophecy in the mouth of the great toad fairy, and that such a being can inhabit the dark underground forever, and become a taboo matter that will never be mentioned by the world.

With this in mind, I will only inform Tsunade of the details of this incident, and the other insiders have also been instructed by me to do the same, so there is no need to send the ninjas of Konoha Village here to investigate.

In addition, Naruto went out of control in this incident and went into a half-tailed beast pattern, and even gave birth to four tails at one point.

At that time, I seemed to see a person in the dark, that person...

Fortunately, in the end, Naruto regained his sanity when he was already out of control, but it was a pity that the boy who awakened Naruto's sanity at the critical moment died due to being burned too much by the Nine-Tails Chakra.

Now Naruto has become depressed and uninterested in cultivating every day because of this incident, so I hope he can regain his strength as soon as possible.

Above.

Self also.

...

That's all there was to Jiraiya's letter, and Tsunade took a meaningful breath as he looked at the letter, which was much longer than before.

Tsunade knows that although Jiraiya seems casual and open-minded on the surface, he is not a calm man who is very good at or willing to express his true emotions in his heart.

Whether it's like or dislike, happy or fearful, Zilai will not easily express his true thoughts or emotions to others, but chooses to carry all this alone.

In the language of Jiraiya, there is no complaint, and there is no weakness.

Even Tsunade.,It's rare to listen to Jiraiya express his inner thoughts.,Occasionally, it's only with the double blessing of wine and his beauty that Jiraiya lets down his guard and confides in his heart.。

Especially fear, the emotion that makes a man seem inferior, is impossible to tell.

But in this letter, Tsunade felt the kind of emotion that is very ordinary in ordinary people, but very unusual in Jiraiya.

That's fear.

It's a fear of the unknown, a fear of the unspeakable.

Although Jiraiya is a statement of fact between the lines, only a few statements describe Jiraiya's own inner feelings about these unknown beings at that time.

But Tsunade had already felt it, and Jiraiya did have a fear of those things, a fear that was intense and impossible to ignore.

In fact, since Jiraiya became a ninja, there is definitely more than one critical moment as a ninja, and every critical moment is impressive.

For example, in a certain mission, the three ninjas, who were just ordinary Konoha ninja trios at that time, were surrounded in a cave by the ninjas of Iwakuin Village, and Jiraiya was already injured at that time, and Orochimaru felt that it was better to give up Jirai.

Although he was vetoed by Tsunade at the time, there was no fear of death in the eyes of Jiraiya at that time.

Another time, when the three shinobi faced the long-famous demigod of the ninja world, Sanshoyu Hanzo, they never showed even a moment of submission and fear of the threat of death.

Therefore, it can be judged that Jiraiya has never been afraid of death, so this time Jiraiya is not afraid of death itself.

He was terrified of the indescribable roars, the roars that made him tremble from the depths of his soul.

These fearful voices, as well as unexplained people and events, are the key to Jiraiya's nightmares for days, and finally choose to write these things down on a letter paper.

It is conceivable how much psychological pressure Zilai is facing this time.

"Jiraiya..."

Looking at the handwriting on the letter paper that was trying to maintain his composure, Tsunade couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

But at this moment, a reckless figure outside the door rushed in.

"Tsunade-sama! There is a contact letter from the Temple of Fire! ”

"Oh? Take it and take a look. ”

Tsunade immediately collected his feelings, since Jiraiya decided not to publicize these frightening events, then Tsunade also chose to respect Jiraiya's decision, even if his own cronies and subordinates were silent.

Shizune immediately handed the letter to Tsunade, and Tsunade looked at the letter, the expression on his face changed from solemn at the beginning to hideous, the muscles on his face twitched faintly, and finally even the whole person's face was visibly black.

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The ninja Naruto Uzumaki of your village went on a chakra rampage in the Temple of Fire, destroying countless property, and now the Temple of Fire needs to be rebuilt, and I hope that your village can compensate for the related expenses on your behalf.

The total amount of property and construction costs lost was...

...

"One, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand..."

"100,000, 10,000,000..."

"100 million!"

Looking at the terrifying number of digits accumulated on the letters, Tsunade's roar spread throughout Konoha Village.