Chapter 225 Jiraiya's Strange Drift
After losing Orochimaru as his target, Jiraiya became idle.

While he traveled around the countries looking for inspiration and preparing to write a new book, he was also waiting for the mission from the Hokage Building to make more contributions to the village.

Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

In three months, Jiraiya traveled through most of the ninja world and experienced all kinds of customs and cultures.

While traveling in the Land of Fire, Jiraiya met Tsunade, who had accumulated a lot of debts from traveling around with Shizune.

After hearing Jiraiya asking her to return to the village, Tsunade swung her iron fist full of supernatural power.

Although Konoha is currently in a period of transition, Tsunade still has no intention of returning to the village, let alone participating in the election for the Fifth Hokage.

In Tsunade's mind, the Senju clan has shed enough blood for the village.

In order to protect the village founded by her grandfather, she lost her great-grandfather, her second grandfather, her parents, her younger brother and her lover. Even the name of the Senju clan disappeared in the ninja world, leaving only a few scattered members.

She believed that she had never owed Konoha anything, but rather it was Konoha that owed the Senju clan.

Jiraiya had no way to deal with Tsunade who was determined not to return to the village, because he also didn't want to stay in the village, so he left the village under the pretext of chasing Orochimaru.

He couldn't force Tsunade to do something that he himself couldn't do.

What's more, with Tsunade's identity, whether she stays in Konoha or not, her deterrent effect on other major ninja villages is almost the same. The Senju clan has long been inseparable from Konoha.

After helping Tsunade pay off her gambling debts, Jiraiya exchanged it for Tsunade's promise to return to visit the village.

Then, he continued his journey to travel around the world.

While traveling to the Land of Wind, Jiraiya met a puppeteer and discussed topics related to fate.

The Puppet Master scoffed at Jiraiya's search for the Child of Prophecy.

The puppeteer believes that there is no need to search for destiny, and people should accept their fate as it comes, and that they should throw themselves into the upcoming war.

If you die in a war, it's just your bad luck and there's nothing to complain about.

When traveling to the secluded Longyin Village, Jiraiya met a Longyin teacher.

Teacher Long Yin is teaching the children how to survive in war. Only by surviving can there be more hope in life.

This scene reminded Jiraiya of the time when he taught Nagato and others.

At the beginning, Orochimaru wanted to kill Nagato, Yahiko and Konan to end the painful life of the three orphans in the troubled times.

In the end, it was because he saw Nagato's Rinnegan that he stayed to train the Child of Prophecy.

After three years, he didn't have much expectation on whether Nagato could become the child of prophecy, but hoped that the children could survive well.

Continuing his travels through the countries, Jiraiya encountered a ninja from the Fuma clan.

The ninja from the Fuma clan was a wandering ninja who was robbing passing merchants and travelers. After teaching the ninja from the Fuma clan a lesson, Jiraiya spared his life and left a sword mark on his forehead.

He didn't know why the Fuma clan, a big family in the ninja world, had fallen to the level of wandering ninjas.

But I think it must be because of the Ninja World War. The existence of the Ninja World War made many ninja clans that had been passed down for hundreds of years become history and disappeared in the Ninja World.

After arriving in the Stone Kingdom, Jiraiya met an unknown religious leader.

The religious leader was surrounded by ragged, pale and skinny disaster victims, and he was muttering to himself, teaching people to avoid disasters through prayer. Jiraiya knew that prayers would definitely not avoid disasters.

But he did not stop the religious leader's actions. These disaster victims had already lost everything. If they were deprived of their last hope, they would be completely on the road of no return.

And the religious leaders’ behavior also reminded him of himself.

Isn't it because of the powerless reality that one is trying hard to find the Son of Prophecy and placing all one's hopes on the Son of Prophecy? There is no essential difference between the two.

With mixed feelings, Jiraiya left the Stone Country and came to the Grass Country.

After the rise of the Hidden Rain Village, the living space of the Grass Kingdom was further squeezed. It could originally rely on the advantage of low prices to win commissions.

But now with the development of the industry in the Hidden Rain Village, life as a ninja in the Land of Grass is becoming increasingly difficult.

After entering an izakaya, Jiraiya met a complaining Kusagakure ninja who was drinking strong liquor and complaining out the window.

According to this grass ninja, there were reasons why he had a bad life.

It was because the customers' requirements were too high that he was unable to receive any commissions, and it was because the neighboring Rain Village was developing too well that the living standards in the Grass Village were declining.

After hearing these complaints, Jiraiya felt a little impatient.

Under the influence of alcohol, he complained a lot, lamenting how unfair the ninja world was, why his apprentice, the Fourth Hokage, died, and why Orochimaru defected from the village.

Why did the old man of the third generation always indulge Danzo and allow so many injustices to happen in the village?

After sobering up, Jiraiya felt a little headache. After drinking a few cups of sobering tea, he looked in the direction of the Rain Country.

After traveling around the Ninja World for so many days, it is time for me to go to the Hidden Rain Village.

Although the leader of the Hidden Rain Village is Hanzo of the Salamander, the ninjas who actually manage the Hidden Rain Village are now his apprentices. Let's see what the Hidden Rain Village looks like under the governance of Yahiko and others.

However, Jiraiya didn't actually hold much hope in his heart.

After all, except for the Fire Country, the other small countries are now living in dire straits.

Although the brutal Ninja World War is over, the open and secret fighting in the Ninja World has never stopped. In order to survive, the Ninjas are still living on the edge of a knife.

A few hours later, Jiraiya arrived in the Land of Rain from the Land of Grass.

After entering the Land of Rain, Jiraiya immediately felt the difference between the Land of Grass and the Land of Rain. Although the weather in the Land of Grass was better than that in the Land of Rain.

But there is a huge gap on the border between the two countries.

The roads in the Land of Grass are muddy. A ninja of his strength can walk on them as if they were flat ground, but it would be very uncomfortable for ordinary people, who would find it difficult to move forward.

But the Rain Country is different. The Rain Country has clean and smooth concrete roads.

The gap between the two was like a chasm, and Jiraiya became more and more interested in the internal situation of the Hidden Rain Village.

Thinking of this, Jiraiya's steps became much lighter.

Not long after, Jiraiya was stopped by a group of ninjas. The leading ninja was none other than Nagato, who was leading a construction team in the Hidden Rain Village.

After seeing Jiraiya, Nagato raised his head in confusion: "Teacher Jiraiya?"

(End of this chapter)