Jiraiya had no choice but to follow Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto upstream.
However, Orochimaru was puzzled by one thing:
Where did Black Zetsu go?
This transformation process should have been completed by Subject 626 alone; Black Zetsu wasn't supposed to be involved...
...
By the lake.
Half an hour ago.
Tsunade, sitting bored on Jiraiya's clothes, suddenly heard a rustling noise near her ear.
Glancing aside, she saw three to five ant people, no bigger than fingernails, heading her way. At the sight of Tsunade turning her head, they panicked and fled, finally hiding behind a rock.
"They're smaller than those ant people from before. Are they children?" Tsunade pondered inwardly, placing her hand on the ground as a gentle wave of chakra spread toward them.
But this gentleness was relative.
For the four little ant children, Tsunade's chakra was as vast as a lake; the moment it touched them, it knocked them to the ground, and the smallest one even tumbled three times.
