“What?”
Hearing this, Tsunade was startled, and Jiraiya immediately jumped up from the tree.
“You destroyed the bathhouse with a single punch and even caused the ground to cave in?” Tsunade, who had been leaning against the tree, stood up straight and looked at Izumo Kamizuki.
‘Praying for Izumo Kamizuki’s perspective…’ Shin watched the spot where Izumo Kamizuki was looking.
It was right below Tsunade’s chest.
“Konoha only has one bathhouse!
Where am I supposed to get material now!” Jiraiya shouted, clutching his head.
“This isn’t the time to be worrying about that, Lord Jiraiya.” Shin jumped in, pretending to be a good guy.
“According to our on-site investigation…
we believe he may have used super strength.” As Izumo Kamizuki said this, he glanced at Tsunade’s eyes from time to time, implying, “Is this something one of your disciples did?”
“How could that be?” Tsunade frowned upon hearing this.
Only Sakura knew her super strength, and how did that guy named Yagami enter Konoha without anyone noticing?
“Let’s go take a look.” Tsunade said, preparing to leave.
“Lady Tsunade, what about here…” Shin naturally didn’t want to leave.
How could he pass up such a good opportunity to learn ninjutsu?
“Don’t worry about it for now.
We’ve already seen what we needed to see.” Tsunade said before walking away.
“Since it involves super strength, I’ll go take a look too.” Jiraiya yawned and followed.
Izumo Kamizuki immediately ran ahead to lead the way, leaving Shin with no choice but to quietly create a Shadow Clone to keep watch here.
The group soon arrived at the bathhouse.
Looking at the large crater in front of them, both Tsunade and Jiraiya were somewhat shocked.
“This is definitely super strength, but the power seems even greater than yours.” Jiraiya said, looking at the ground.
In the center of the giant crater was a fist imprint, indicating that it was indeed caused by a single punch.
Moreover, Tsunade couldn’t create such a large area of impact with a single punch.
“Has an S-rank individual invaded?” Tsunade began to think, biting her thumb—a small habit she had when thinking.
The S-rank she referred to meant an S-rank missing-nin, or in simpler terms, a Kage-level powerhouse.
“In Konoha, besides myself and Sakura, no one knows how to use super strength, and I have never taught anyone else.” Tsunade said with a frown.
“Could it be that someone stole the technique while you were teaching Sakura?” Jiraiya said.
“Even if they stole it, it wouldn’t be possible to have this much power.” Tsunade said decisively.
“Super strength requires gathering all the chakra in one’s body, and it requires extremely precise control over chakra.
When I was teaching Sakura, it was impossible for anyone to be within range to hear our conversation.
I am quite confident in my sensory abilities.”
“In that case, this will be difficult to investigate.” Jiraiya sighed upon hearing this.
Even if they racked their brains, they would never guess that it was Shin’s doing.
“By the way, when we arrived, he disappeared instantly.
It wasn’t a Body Flicker Technique.
It was a Shadow Clone.” Izumo Kamizuki said at this moment.
“A single Shadow Clone is this strong?
It seems this is a character even harder to deal with than an S-rank.”
Upon hearing this, Jiraiya became serious and stopped thinking about gathering material.
Konoha was now facing an unprecedentedly powerful enemy.
“How do you intend to handle this?” At this moment, a middle-aged man’s voice rang out.
Everyone turned to look.
Danzo!
Danzo walked up to Tsunade, surrounded by a group of Anbu.
“And how do you intend to handle it?” Tsunade said to Danzo, looking annoyed at this meddlesome guy.
“I have investigated.
Only one person had a conflict with the bathhouse owner today.” Danzo said, then looked at Shin.
Several Anbu appeared directly behind Shin and pinned him to the ground.
At this very moment, it was time for Shin to put on an Oscar-worthy performance.
“Why are you arresting me!
What does this have to do with me!
Lady Tsunade, save me, save me!” Shin’s face was pressed against the ground as he shouted at Tsunade.
“Stop!” Tsunade immediately shouted at the two Anbu.
But they were directly under Danzo’s command and did not listen to her orders at all.
“Danzo, what is the meaning of this?
Shin was with us when the incident occurred.”
“Didn’t Izumo Kamizuki say that what they saw was a Shadow Clone?” Danzo said calmly, his facial expression completely unchanged.
“Besides him, no one else has had a conflict with the bathhouse owner.”
“He is just an ordinary person without any chakra!” Tsunade shouted at Danzo.
“Whether he truly has no chakra, or if he has sealed it away, we will only know after testing him.
Take him away.” Danzo said to the two Anbu.
The two Anbu pulled Shin up from the ground and escorted him toward Danzo.
“Lady Tsunade!
Save me!
I’m innocent!” Shin looked at Tsunade pitifully and shouted, while thinking to himself.
‘This Danzo really is something, he’d rather kill a hundred innocent people than let one guilty one go.’
“You suspect he is a spy now, right?
If he were a spy and had this kind of strength, he would have resisted by now!” Tsunade pointed at the ruins nearby.
She didn’t stop the two Anbu.
As Hokage, being unable to command the Anbu of her own village was already humiliating enough, and trying to stop them would be even more unseemly.
“What if he is just acting pitiful now to win your sympathy?
All for the sake of getting close to you to steal Konoha’s secrets.” Danzo was not to be outdone and said to Tsunade.
‘This day has been way too exciting.
In just one short day, I smashed a Pain clone, met Jiraiya, got arrested, became Tsunade’s secretary, and now I’ve been caught by Danzo.
My future days are looking more and more promising.’ At this moment, Shin appeared panicked on the surface, but was actually steady as a rock on the inside.
Because he discovered that Tsunade’s favorability toward him had increased by two points.
It seems his acting pitiful had triggered Tsunade’s protective instincts.
However, when Danzo said those words, Tsunade’s heart wavered, and his favorability dropped by five points instantly…
‘Danzo, you bastard, when I get the chance, I’m going to smash your Root base.’ Shin thought to himself: ‘And I’ll pluck out all your eyeballs while I’m at it.’
Now, in order to complete the mission and gain points for the Modifier, Shin could not directly resist, otherwise, the mission would be stuck here forever.
Perhaps he could take this opportunity to increase Tsunade’s favorability toward him.
“I think so too.
We can let Danzo take him for interrogation and see.” Jiraiya whispered to Tsunade at this moment.
‘You old geezer!’ Shin wanted to curse out loud.
How could Jiraiya be siding with Danzo too?
Come to think of it, Jiraiya had always felt he wasn’t exactly a good person.
It seems Jiraiya and Danzo were much more cautious than Tsunade.
“If the interrogation ends and it turns out he had nothing to do with it, how will you compensate him?” Tsunade looked at Danzo and said.
“No, Lady Tsunade!
I didn’t do anything!” Upon hearing this, Shin understood that it was time to deliver a textbook performance of being the vulnerable victim!