"Damn, what strong water pressure and currents!" Satoru felt the pressure on him, and the currents that were like a blender.
Water Release: Water-Repelling Technique.
An invisible bubble rose around him, resisting all the water pressure.
Only then did he look at his target, Jiraiya's corpse. He quickly moved closer, following the currents.
"He's really dead!"
How did this happen? Is there really a World Will?
Even if he didn't interfere much, the intelligence on Pain was genuinely conveyed to Jiraiya, yet he still died.
Did Nagato use the Gedo Statue?
Or did Konan use her six hundred billion exploding tags?
Satoru could only suspect this.
Otherwise, with Jiraiya's mastery of Summoning Jutsu, there's no reason he couldn't escape.
"Since that's the case, then let's not waste it."
Despite being sowhat surprised, Satoru didn't show much emotion, only wondering why Jiraiya had died.
All of this could be known by reading the remaining mories. His signature skill was the Psycho Mind Transmission.
He grabbed Jiraiya's body, pulled out the black rods from him, collected them, and began to cast the Psycho Mind Transmission.
Boom!
Traveling through Jiraiya's mory tunnel, he quickly found the relevant nodes, focusing on important events first.
Compared to the mories of minor characters and ordinary Jonin he had read before, Jiraiya's mories were much richer.
Satoru felt that his Psycho Mind Transmission was already quite impressive, allowing him to quickly find what he wanted and extract it for focused observation.
But... as soon as he traversed the mory tunnel, what appeared wasn't training experiences, nor how he was killed, nor even the writing experiences of a great author.
Instead... it was a flurry of white thighs, swaying snow-white forms, a dazzling array of won of various charms, all with one commonality: mature bodies.
And one particular scene made Satoru feel a bit awkward.
It was Tsunade's beauty-in-the-bath scene. It was clear that Tsunade had just matured at this ti.
As soon as the thought flashed, a fist slamd towards 'him,' directly scaring Satoru out of the mory-reading state.
"My sin, I didn't do it on purpose. I'm a married man. Jiraiya, you deserve to die, it's what you get... you got what you deserved..."
Satoru felt his eyes were polluted. He had initially thought he should feel so self-reproach for Jiraiya's death, but now... "Again, let's see use my eighteen years of Psycho Mind Transmission skill to find less impactful mories..."
The use of the Psycho Mind Transmission usually first reads the deepest impression in the subject's mories, and then the caster adjusts the direction of the mories being read based on the ti coordinates revealed by those mories.
After pausing at an important coordinate for a while, Satoru used this as a reference to search for potentially important mories along the tiline, both before and after... Konoha.
Hokage Office.
Suddenly, Tsunade's face flushed.
A strange feeling rose in her heart.
"Lady Tsunade, what's wrong?
Are you worried about Jiraiya?" Shizune asked quickly when she saw Tsunade's expression.
Ever since Jiraiya went to gather intelligence, Tsunade's condition hasn't been right. Coupled with the Akatsuki's activity, it has increased Tsunade's stress. Now, Shizune is always ready to offer comfort.
"Hmm, I had a bad premonition just now, and I feel a bit restless."
Tsunade suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, put down the docunts in her hand, and went to the office window, looking at the setting sun.
Then that feeling appeared again.
This ti she couldn't pretend not to notice: "Anbu, notify the Sensory Division to increase their sensory range and search the Village. Also, lead an Anbu squad to thoroughly search the area around the office."
Tsunade frowned. That feeling of being seen through, it must be an Akatsuki intelligence agent who had infiltrated Konoha and was already near her.
She had only felt that sensation when Jiraiya spied on her back then.
Which Akatsuki mber could it be?
..."So that's how it is. Humans are truly contradictory beings. On one hand, they can do immoral things like peeping at won bathing, while on the other, they can sacrifice themselves to save the world and trust a Toad without reservation."
After continuous searching, Satoru finally found what he wanted.
He hadn't expected such an inside story.
The Great Toad Sage, truly a Toad whose prophecies never fail, quite impressive!
He actually prophesied up to the Boruto era and made preparations.
Jiraiya's unreserved trust in the Great Toad Sage, and his unwavering belief even at the cost of sacrifice, also greatly admired Satoru.
Although he thought it was a bit foolish, the more such fools there were, the better, right?
He couldn't do it, but he greatly respected such people.
Didn't soone say that you might not agree with such an ideology, but you must respect it, at least it won't make the world worse?
"Orochimaru actually agreed with Jiraiya's prophecy?
No... it should be that he's preparing to respond for the sake of immortality. It seems even scientists agree with the idea of 'better safe than sorry.'"
Satoru also saw the conversation between Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
He thought of a possibility: could Orochimaru's defeat by Sasuke, and Sasuke taking everything from him, all be part of his plan?
Orochimaru, as a true genius, was famous from a young age.
Coupled with Hiruzen Sarutobi's education, his self-taught forbidden jutsu, and the reputation he built during the Second and Third Shinobi World War, how could he lose to Sasuke, a greenhorn?
Danzo Shimura even knew how to control his subordinates with various forbidden jutsu, other drugs, and brainwashing tactics.
Orochimaru, as the leading figure in Ninja World biotechnology, had no reason to only plant a Cursed Seal and give Sasuke nothing else.
He had thoroughly researched the existence of Hashirama cells, and through previous discussions, he also knew that the Sharingan's eyes were deeply researched by the other party.
He couldn't possibly be so arrogant as to give Sasuke nothing, could he?
That was a Ninja. Orochimaru's Ninja qualities were at the pinnacle of the Ninja World. Intelligence, technique, and experience shouldn't allow him to be so careless.
Ninja are a profession that uses any ans necessary.
Satoru didn't quite believe Orochimaru would have such an oversight.
"If that's the case, then isn't Sasuke just a vanguard pushed out by Orochimaru to bear the pressure at the forefront of the Ninja World?"
Based on Satoru's nearly twenty years of Ninja experience, this possibility was over 60%, with the remaining 40% being other uncertain factors.
He had studied probability.
When a logic is established and has no bugs, there's a 50% chance it's true. Plus, what he knew from reading the original plot would increase that.
Why, though?
He knew the existence of the plot, which is why he hid behind the scenes, preparing to let Naruto and Sasuke be the pioneers.
At this mont, Satoru really wanted a deep-blue system golden finger; even a super brain has its limits.
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