Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 351 If Nagato Doesn't Revive the People of Konoha

The sun rises and the moon sets.

One dose of liquid goes by, a new day begins, and another dose of liquid goes by.

Tsunade toiled during the day, and Tsunade toiled at night.

Another day has passed in the blink of an eye.

Upon receiving news that his house had been burgled, Kakashi rushed back at an unprecedented speed, as if he had suddenly been notified that his parents were going to check his phone's browser history.

He was originally supposed to return to Konoha in three days, but he arrived three days early.

Unfortunately, it was all too late.

When Kakashi saw his treasured "Make-Out Paradise" photo album and other valuable items scattered everywhere in the intelligence room, he instantly lost all strength, his whole body went limp, and he was completely exhausted.

"Kakashi-sensei, quickly bring out Jiraiya-sensei's latest 'Make-Out Paradise'!"

Naruto didn't care about Kakashi's death; he only wanted to decipher the code left by Jiraiya to avenge his teacher. So he reached out and started groping Kakashi.

Kakashi looked exhausted, but Naruto still took the initiative to do his dirty work.

Soon, Jiraiya's latest "Make-Out Paradise" book, which he had brought out before his death, was found in Kakashi's bag. Naruto took it in his hand, and sure enough, there was the character "夕" (Yu) in the code on the cover.

"This should be it!"

Shikamaru took the book "Make-Out Paradise" from Naruto, and the group quickly started matching the codes and page numbers to find the corresponding words.

"This thing has no intention of being a chair!"

"What do you mean?"

Naruto and Shikamaru blurted out, looking at each other.

Clearly, Jiraiya's code has been deciphered, but no one can yet guess what it means or what information Jiraiya wanted to convey.

"You've memorized every single word in your book, so how difficult would it be to directly transmit the four words—'without the real body'—?"

"That's insane!"

In the interlayered space, Li Yao, whose entire body was enveloped by a spacetime barrier, looked at the code that Naruto and the others had deciphered from Jiraiya and made a lot of sarcastic remarks.

Jiraiya created a special code that only Naruto could understand, which Li Yao could understand.

After all, Jiraiya wanted the people of Konoha to know Naruto's importance and wanted Naruto to become the savior who would save Konoha.

But with your layers upon layers of encryption, what if Payne hadn't cracked it by the time he attacked the village?

Without knowing that Pain wasn't the real Pain, the losses suffered by Konoha were enormous.

In fact, Konoha suffered heavy losses in the original work; that Super Shinra Tensei killed at least half of Konoha's people.

In the end, if it weren't for Naruto's Kototenko, Nagato wouldn't have been able to revive the people who died in that battle in Konoha.

Look, Naruto let Nagato escape. Will the village still regard Naruto as a hero?

Jiraiya's statement is purely self-indulgent and doesn't consider reality.

Li Yao, who was getting angrier and angrier the more he thought about it, suddenly had an idea.

"Although you are dead, it doesn't matter. I will resurrect you with Edo Tensei and let you see for yourself whether Naruto can still become a hero of Konoha if Nagato doesn't revive the dead people of Konoha."

Li Yao turned back. He was no longer in a hurry to kill Kakashi. Instead, he sent the shadow clone who was looking for Obito to go to Amegakure instead.

Jiraiya's body was at the bottom of Lake Genhai. Ordinary people might not be able to reach the bottom of the sea, but Li Yao could. The water pressure had no effect on him because he possessed the technique of mass manipulation.

When Nagato and Pain arrive, Li Yao will not allow Nagato to use the Rinne Rebirth Technique. He wants to see if the remaining people of Konoha can still call Naruto a hero after he let go of the enemy who killed countless villagers and ninjas.

Letting go of hatred is a noble sentiment.

Even Li Yao himself admires Naruto's ability to do it.

It is a noble sentiment to do it yourself, but to force others to do it is not a noble sentiment, but rather to make things difficult for them.

Like the Virgin Mary.

People don't actually dislike saints, but they dislike saints who stand on a moral high ground and force others to be saints too.

That's disgusting.

In his previous life, Li Yao also started to dislike Naruto, the main character, starting from the episode where Naruto talked Nagato into submission.

Naruto's talk-no-jutsu logic of letting go of hatred always made Li Yao, a person from Nanjing, feel uncomfortable.

It's as if the people of Xiao Rixing are using Naruto's talk-no-jutsu to tell him that the Nanjing Massacre has already killed many people, and now we should focus on the future and stop creating even greater killings. We should put down our hatred and usher in true peace.

Bullshit!!

Blood debts must be repaid in blood; otherwise, the death penalty would be unnecessary.

Of course, if Naruto continued like this, being a true saint wouldn't be a problem, but unfortunately, Naruto's letting go of hatred was also for people.

He could put aside his hatred when facing Nagato, who was also a disciple of Jiraiya.

He had no hatred towards the people outside the village of Baizu; it was just a mission. Yet, he still wanted to kill Baizu and had no intention of letting go of his hatred.

so!

The Virgin Mary is not disgusting; the Virgin Mary with double standards is the most disgusting.

Li Yao is going to take a look this time.

He simply couldn't believe that Hinata Hyuga was killed by Nagato for Naruto's sake, and that Naruto had let Nagato go, then returned to persuade Hinata's father, Hiashi Hyuga, to let go of his hatred, otherwise even more people would die.

If Hiashi Hyuga can still happily understand and accept Naruto as the hero who saves Konoha, then Li Yao would happily transform into Nagato and exterminate the entire Hyuga clan, leaving only Hiashi Hyuga alive, to see if he could still happily understand Naruto's philosophy of letting go of hatred.

In any case, Li Yao did not believe that the survivors of the various clans in Konoha who had lost their sons and grandsons would understand Naruto's decision to let the enemy escape.

Li Yao wanted to see where Naruto and Konoha would go if Nagato didn't revive the dead.

Did Jiraiya have any thoughts about his secret code when he saw that scene?

……

"What's wrong?"

In the Hokage's office, Fukasaku, the toad who had come all the way from Mount Myōboku to analyze the situation, looked at the furious Naruto and said calmly, "An opponent that even Jiraiya couldn't defeat, do you really think you have the confidence to beat him?"

Naruto, who had just said he would avenge Jiraiya, was stunned upon hearing this.

Naruto, who had trained with Jiraiya for two and a half years, knew just how powerful Jiraiya was.

That was the powerful strength that allowed him to firmly suppress the Nine-Tails and seal its power back even after it went out of control within him.

Even his own prized Rasengan was used more powerfully by Jiraiya than he could.

If even Jiraiya couldn't win against this enemy when he activated Sage Mode, what confidence do I have in winning?

Fukasaku's words hit the nail on the head, leaving Naruto speechless.

Finally, the decryption of the intelligence was handed over to Shikamaru and his team.

Naruto followed Fukasaku the toad to Mount Myōboku to train in Sage Mode.

Although Jiraiya was defeated, Sage Mode was still the key to defeating Pain.

Without Sage Mode, even if they deciphered the code left by Jiraiya and learned Pain's weakness, it was useless.

When the gap in strength is too large, a weakness is no longer a weakness.

Just like a genin who knows that a jonin's weakness is genjutsu, he still can't defeat the jonin by relying on that genjutsu weakness.

Because the weakness of a Jonin's genjutsu is only against people at the Jonin level.

For genin, genjutsu is not a weakness of jonin.

Therefore, Naruto can only defeat Pain if he learns Sage Mode.

Knowing what he should do, Naruto diligently practiced Sage Mode at Mount Myōboku, while the others continued to analyze information about Pain, preparing for the day Pain would attack.

(End of this chapter)