Chapter 227

Just as Li Ang finished off the malignant tumor that was Obito, the Kage of the Five Great Shinobi Villages were discussing what to do next.

"We cannot continue like this." Tsunade slammed the table and stood up abruptly. "Let's go to war directly. If we keep dragging this out, we might as well just go back to our villages and pretend nothing ever happened."

The reason she was acting this way was because the so-called Allied Shinobi Forces had been in a stalemate with the Amegakure shinobi troops for several days.

One had to realize that Amegakure was merely a small village!

If this continued, the Five Great Nations would likely become a laughingstock.

Upon hearing her words, the Raikage, A, said in a gruff voice, "Your Konoha hasn't suffered any losses, so you should be the ones taking the lead."

"Raikage, by your logic, there was no need for Konoha to join the war at all."

Tsunade retorted quite bluntly. She was a shinobi who had been famous for a long time; did they really think she had no temper?

Then, the Hokage pointed out the hidden thoughts of the others present: "You are all simply afraid that Pain will release that technique which destroyed Kumogakure again. But do you really think he can release that kind of technique frequently?"

At this moment, upon hearing his own village mentioned, the Raikage, A, felt his face darken.

Thanks to that Pain, Kumogakure was the village that had sent the fewest troops among the five this time.

"Easy for you to say, Hokage." At this point, the Tsuchikage, Onoki, took a puff from his pipe. "What if that Pain ignores his own people and rushes directly into our villages to release that technique?"

Perhaps such a powerful technique did indeed require a great price to release, but who among those present dared to gamble on it?

Moreover, unlike the Tailed Beasts, the target was too small. If he really intended to launch a suicide attack, the village would have no way to react in time.

This was the reason why they hadn't raided Amegakure despite being able to bypass the frontline troops.

After all, a madman without restraints was far more terrifying than one with them.

If it came to that, they would truly have to pray that the opponent wouldn't target their own villages.

Nagato's Super Shinra Tensei made the Five Great Shinobi Villages hesitant; if they fought, they feared the madman would drag their homes to hell with him, but if they didn't fight, they couldn't bear to lose the Tailed Beasts.

No.

Onoki's gaze flickered slightly. The Jinchuriki of the Hidden Rock Village hadn't been captured yet.

Just as the atmosphere fell into a stalemate, a hearty laugh suddenly rang out in the tent: "Hahahaha!"

"Long time no see, Tsunade."

As he spoke, an old man with white hair wearing a forehead protector with the character for 【Oil】 walked into the tent.

Seeing the newcomer, Tsunade couldn't help but be stunned, subconsciously calling out his name: "Jiraiya."

"Why are you here?"

Hearing this, Jiraiya scratched his cheek: "With such a huge commotion, I definitely had to come and take a look."

"…Where is Naruto?"

After a moment of silence, Tsunade asked about the whereabouts of her village's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

"I left him at Mount Myoboku, don't worry."

Hearing this, Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed her old companion wasn't so unreliable as to reach that point.

However, just as this thought arose in her mind, she heard Jiraiya say: "How about this, Konoha will take the lead later, and we will ask that Pain on the battlefield what exactly he wants to do."

?

Tsunade was stunned for a moment, then her face darkened.

She retracted her previous thought.

Although she was somewhat unhappy, she didn't refute Jiraiya's words, but instead looked at the Kage of the other four villages: "If you don't agree to this, then Konoha will withdraw its troops tomorrow."

Hearing this, the other four Kage looked at each other, then nodded in agreement.

"Fine."

"Seconded."

Seeing the plan successfully finalized, Jiraiya let out a loud laugh, but a trace of deep sorrow flashed in his eyes.

Yahiko, Nagato, Konan…

What are you doing?

……

Amegakure shinobi troops.

Nagato, looking through Pain at Li Ang who had just arrived at the front line, said in a calm tone: "Long, after this matter is over, I will help you find Uchiha Itachi."

Hearing this, Li Ang, who was flipping through the techniques for creating human puppets, replied without even raising his head: "Then many thanks to the leader."

And beside the two of them was Kakuzu, looking as miserable as if his entire family had died.

If you don't run a household, you don't know how expensive daily necessities are; in just this short amount of time, Amegakure had spent an extremely massive amount of funds.

And this was only because Konan had solved the supply problem for explosive tags; otherwise, the amount would have been even more exaggerated.

Moreover, because of the war, no shinobi village had been placing orders for ninja tools with the Akatsuki organization recently.

It's all money!

Besides the three, Sasori was also on the front line, but he was currently busy making puppets; after all, in his previous battle with Chiyo, this puppet master had lost quite a few of his prized possessions.

Just as the few were in different moods, several powerful chakra signatures suddenly came from afar.

Li Ang and Nagato both looked in the direction the chakra came from; under the influence of the Uzumaki bloodline, their sensory perception far exceeded that of ordinary shinobi.

The next moment, the two disappeared instantly.

At this time, on the Allied Shinobi Forces side, a massive number of shinobi troops were looking at the scene in front of the formation with great awe.

In their sight, six figures were standing atop two summoning beasts of exaggerated size.

And these two summoning beasts were a toad and a slug, respectively.

At this moment, Tsunade, standing on top of the giant slug, spoke: "Send someone to notify Amegakure; tell that Pain to come out and meet us."

"Yes."

The Konoha shinobi who received the order had just started to move when they saw two figures suddenly appear in the distance.

Li Ang looked at the terrifying momentum of the Allied Shinobi Forces opposite and couldn't help but smile: "What a grand scene, leader."

He now felt that his previous decision to contract the three Snake Princesses was an incredibly correct operation.

Look, isn't this exactly the time when you need to put on a show?

Thinking of this, Li Ang performed hand seals and immediately used the Summoning Technique to call out the three Snake Princesses.

Bang—!

Huge white smoke rose up; this time, without him even having to give orders, the three Snake Princesses had already revealed their true forms.

Li Ang stood on top of the head of the central Snake Princess, Tashiro, arms crossed, looking far away at the Allied Shinobi Forces' position.

And upon seeing the three giant snakes, a commotion immediately broke out in the formation belonging to the Sunagakure shinobi.

They remembered bad memories.

Just at this moment, a voice of extreme astonishment suddenly rang out on the battlefield.

"Tashiro, Ichikishima, Tagitsu?"

The one speaking was the giant toad in front of the Allied Shinobi Forces' formation, which was Jiraiya's summoning beast, Gamabunta.

This was the first time Li Ang had seen a shocked expression on a toad's face.

"You actually are willing to listen to the commands of a human brat."

As he spoke, Gamabunta took a few heavy puffs from the pipe in his hand, seemingly unable to believe everything before his eyes.

Hearing this, Tashiro, whose voice was extremely dull after revealing her true form, spoke: "Mind your attitude when speaking to… Lord Long, Gamabunta."

"…"

Gamabunta took a few more puffs of his pipe; he had truly seen a ghost today. Those lunatics from Ryuchi Cave were actually showing this kind of attitude toward a human.

Just as he wanted to continue saying something, an aged voice from above interrupted him: "Enough, Boss Toad, now is not the time for you to reminisce."

It was Jiraiya.

He first looked at Li Ang.

At this moment, this famous Sannin looked at the giant snake under Li Ang's feet, and for some reason, had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

It seemed Orochimaru had been in this state back then, only his summoning beast hadn't been that obedient.

After a brief silence, he looked at Pain, who was standing on top of Tagitsu's head.

"That appearance… you are Yahiko!?" An extremely astonished expression appeared on Jiraiya's face. "Why is Nagato's Rinnegan with you?! And what about Konan?"

Facing his inquiry, Nagato responded in a detached tone: "Teacher Jiraiya, long time no see."

Once these words were spoken, the atmosphere on the battlefield immediately became strange.

Tsunade frowned slightly, as if she had remembered something.

And the other four Kage all looked at Tsunade, their expressions extremely eerie.

Especially A; he was almost laughed to anger.

Damn it, he wasn't finished with Konoha!

Tsunade actually had the nerve to say the Akatsuki organization had nothing to do with Konoha!?

The culprit who blew Kumogakure to the sky was the disciple of the Sannin Jiraiya; you call that having nothing to do with it!?

This Raikage even suspected that the Land of Fire was supporting the Akatsuki organization from behind.

Tsunade naturally realized this point too. Just as she was about to explain, she heard Jiraiya say: "Yahiko…"

"It seems you haven't developed in the right direction. What exactly happened?"

Great, no need to explain anymore.

"Teacher Jiraiya, you are but a mortal; naturally, you will not understand me." Nagato's expression was cold. "Putting a full stop to this war-torn world is my responsibility as a god."

Jiraiya's expression became increasingly grave: "I didn't expect you to have become so paranoid to this extent."

He took a deep breath, then said in a serious tone: "Then let the reminiscing end here. We can talk after the battle is over."

"Provided that the Akatsuki organization can still exist after the war is over."

Hearing this, Nagato let out a laugh with unclear meaning: "Heh…"

At this time, Li Ang, who was to the side, spoke: "That sentence should be said to you instead."

As his voice fell, blue-red energy slowly drifted away, and the scarlet left eye stared coldly at the Allied Shinobi Forces.

"Let me show you."

"My peak state."

If I can write another chapter, I'll post it tonight; the author is almost burnt out.