Chapter 383 Jiraiya Knows the Truth

Jiraiya looked at Aokiji's face. The two were so close that he could touch them if he just took one more step forward.

But it's just one step away, but it's out of reach.

It was as if there was a pitifully thick barrier between the two of them. This feeling was the same as when Orochimaru betrayed the village.

"You should know what I want to ask you." Jiraiya asked.

Aokiji exhaled and sneered with explicit sarcasm: "Instead of asking me, don't you think it's more important to ask what your good teacher did to me and what he did to Tsunade."

"W-what."

Jiraiya opened his eyes wide and his face was full of shock. After a few sounds, he opened his heavy lips and said, "Here, what exactly happened."

"There are some things you'd better not know."

Qing Zhi slowly closed his eyes: "For someone with your personality, knowing this will only increase your worries."

"Ao Pheasant..." Jiraiya opened his mouth, wanting to stop talking.

"If there is nothing else, I will leave. Unlike you, who likes Xianyun Yehe, I am very busy."

Aoki turned around and walked away, leaving Jiraiya with a lonely figure.

Jiraiya was stuck on the spot, his hand stretched out into the void, as if trying to grab something, he opened his five fingers, and after a while, the hand stretched out into the void dropped down feebly.

Jiraiya lowered his head and lowered his eyes, saying in a low voice: "Old man..."

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Hokage's office building, conference room inside.

The four old men who were in a meeting raised their heads and looked at the door.

There was an argument coming from which direction.

"etc……"

"Jiraiya-sama, you can't go in..."

"Hokage-sama and the others are having a meeting..."

…

Ignoring the guards' obstruction, Jiraiya roughly opened the door and glanced around, finally landing on an old man wearing a white robe.

The guard failed in his duty and did not stop Jiraiya. He stood at the door, looked at the old man in the room, knelt down on one knee, and just said something about despicable neglect of duty and hoping that the Hokage would be punished.

Sarutobi Hiruzen expressed the tolerance of his superiors: "It's hard for you, go down."

Sarutobi Hiruzen had already expected that Jiraiya would come here, and had even laid out the plan.

"yes."

The guard quickly stood up and left.

Jiraiya stared at Sarutobi Hiruzen and said with a straight face: "Old man, I have something to ask you..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen pondered for a while, and then his eyes signaled to the people around him to avoid suspicion, leaving him alone to talk to Jiraiya.

Mito Kado and Koharu, who moved to bed, stood up and left their seats without asking any questions, and walked away slowly with their legs.

Danzo sat in his seat and refused to move his buttocks.

"Danzo."

Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned and urged.

"This happened not because of you, but because of me."

Danzo's act of taking the blame made Jiraiya frown, wondering why this matter had anything to do with Danzo again.

After the others left, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Jiraiya, and Danzo were the only three people left in the room.

There was a heavy atmosphere in the air. Sarutobi Hiruzen slowly spoke, breaking the oppressive silence: "Jiraiya, you are here for Aokiji's matter."

Jiraiya remained silent, waiting for them to take the initiative to tell the truth.

Sarutobi Hiruzen closed his eyes and looked embarrassed. He took a deep breath for a long time as if he was preparing to say something. Then just when he was about to tell the truth "truthfully", Danzo interrupted him from further speaking.

"Hiruzhan, you don't need to talk about this, just let me do it."

Danzo acts as the bad guy to pave the way and even highlight the image of Hiruzen Sarutobi who doesn't know anything and is kept in the dark.

Danzo probed in a deep voice: "Jiraiya, in your opinion, what kind of person is Aokiji?"

Before officially deceiving Jiraiya, Danzo had to accurately grasp whether Jiraiya had gone to see Aokiji and how much he knew about the truth, so that he could proceed with the conversation.

Jiraiya, who frowned, didn't understand Danzo's intention. He could only give the image of Aokiji based on his impression and organize his words. However, the words slipped back as soon as they reached his lips.

He can no longer understand Qing Pheasant: "I...I don't know. But I know that he is not a bad person."

Danzo didn't explain good guys and bad guys because it was useless. The best way to convince a person is to present factual evidence and let him make his own judgment.

So, he started to do the next thing: "You know, Qing Pheasant is sometimes too childish?"

Jiraiya's expression was stunned, and he couldn't tell which song Danzo was singing: "Childish?"

"What is a child? A child means that if you treat him well, he will treat you well, but if you treat him badly, he will treat you badly."

"Is there any problem with this?" Jiraiya said, "I think most people are like this."

Danzo sighed: "There is nothing wrong with this in itself, but the problem is that Aokiji is too childish, and children often do things without considering the consequences."

After saying that, he glanced at Jiraiya with a solemn look and said, "Do you still remember when the son of the Fire Country's daimyo was kidnapped?"

The son of the Fire Nation Daimyo was kidnapped?

This matter was quite old, and Jiraiya had almost forgotten this kind of thing. Danzo reminded him, and then he remembered it and said vaguely: "It seems that there is indeed such a thing."

After saying that, he was suddenly startled and thought of something.

It was obviously impossible for Danzo to bring up old things again because he was full, so there was only one possibility.

Jiraiya had an unknown feeling in his heart: "Is Aokiji related to this?"

"There is indeed a connection." Danzo sighed: "And there is a big connection."

"..."

"Because... the person who planned to kidnap the daimyo's son..." Danzo paused and said with certainty: It was Aokiji! "

Jiraiya stared, his voice unable to contain the astonishment: "How is this possible?"

"How is it impossible?"

Danzo raised his voice to increase his credibility.

Jiraiya didn't want to believe it: "There must be some misunderstanding?"

Danzo raised his voice and said: "The so-called misunderstanding is to arrest the daimyo's son, beat him severely, and then carry out blackmail?"

"..."

Danzo calmed down and spoke calmly: "Back then, the Aokihiko's mission failed. Because the protection target was special, he should have sacrificed his life. Fortunately, after many mediations, the daimyo finally decided to forgive Aokihiko and instead went into battle. Because he behaved well in prison and was released early, I thought Aokiji would seriously think about repentance, but what I didn't expect was that inside the prison, he was not repenting, but plotting how to take revenge on the daimyo after he got out."

Jiraiya's voice was trembling: "Retaliation, revenge?"

"As I said, Aokiji is just like a child in some aspects, so he won't consider the consequences of doing this at all."

Danzo explained: "After going out, Aokiji, who held a grudge, used the time during the trip to collect intelligence and recruit people. Because there were many masters around the daimyo, it was difficult to attack, so he chose to target his son. .

"If he attacks directly as soon as he is released from prison, firstly, the information will be insufficient. Secondly, it will be easy for people to associate him with him, so he deliberately spent half a year and went round and round to avoid being associated with him."

Speaking of this, Danzo felt sad: "You have such wisdom at a young age, but it's a pity that you used it in the wrong place."

Jiraiya is not stupid. After hearing this, he already understood Danzo's motives. He walked up to Danzo and grabbed his collar with both hands: "So, you killed Aoji..."

He remembered that at that time, the person in charge of the position of Hokage was Danzo. With his personality, it was very possible that he could do such a thing.

Danzo also had a reason, and it was quite sufficient. He faced Jiraiya's questioning gaze and said loudly: "I have no choice. Who told Aokiji that he did too much this time? With his character and the power he had at that time, , do you think he will obey?"

When asked this question, Jiraiya was immediately speechless, and the strength he used with his hands on Danzo suddenly became less powerful.

Danzo was waiting for this opportunity to break free from Jiraiya's restraints and cooperate with this action to make his next words more powerful: "I'm afraid, no."

At this time, Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up at the right time and called out Danzo's name to signal the other party to stop talking, in order to show his great image.

Danzo said with an "I don't like it" attitude: "At this time, the village will face the greatest crisis at the beginning of its birth, and the severity may be even worse than when Uchiha led the Kyuubi."

Immediately afterwards, Danzo acted selflessly and played the emotional card: "Teacher Tobirama handed Konoha into the hands of our disciples. I can't just watch Aokiji destroy the village."

On one side were his friends, on the other side was the village. Caught between the two, Jiraiya was like a drowning victim, even breathing became difficult.

"Why did things become like this..."

Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen just watched silently without speaking.

Jiraiya drooped his head and was depressed for a while: "Then what happened with Tsunade?"