Minato shook his head helplessly; how to put this.
Saying it out loud would be a little embarrassing for his teacher, ah.
"Pretty much the same as your situation — summoning jutsu caused the trouble. Only it wasn't that someone got warped away; it was that we summoned a toad we really shouldn't have..."
"At the time I was being attacked from all sides. I planned to summon the toad Bunta, charge through and blow up that bridge..."
At this, Jiraiya glanced at him. The latter immediately turned his head to the side, not daring to look.
Gekko Chizan and the three Snake Princesses listened with eager curiosity to what came next.
"Oh, don't stare at me. It's just that I summoned Bunta and he came through right into the fight, which left Minato without a summon to use."
"He did get summoned — that toad, you know, that toad!"
"Ah..."
Jiraiya's whole face crumpled; it was obvious the toad he mentioned gave him a headache.
Minato took a deep breath and told them what happened afterward.
"It was a toad named Bunryo — Bunta's younger brother. Supposedly he's a disgrace to the whole of Mount Myoboku."
"A toad who only eats and sleeps, sleeps and eats, and loves causing trouble."
"Once summoned he didn't help fight — fine — but he actually just stood there watching the show and interfered with me."
"In the end, the plan to blow the bridge failed outright."
"Ah..."
All his helplessness poured out as a sigh. If even the optimistic blond could sigh like that, you can imagine how terrible that toad must have been.
Jiraiya's face filled with resentment, and he promptly added:
"Bunryo the toad was sealed away and driven to the edge of Mount Myoboku. That problem won't happen again."
"Hmm... should be fine..."
Even so, his confidence sounded a little weak at the end — after all, Mount Myoboku is huge, and there are a lot of toads.
This made Gekko Chizan and the three Snake Princesses burst out laughing.
Gekko Chizan couldn't imagine that the mission failed because of a silly, irresponsible toad.
And it was because both master and student wanted to summon a toad at once that this incident happened — truly too funny.
"The mission failed. Iwagakure arranged many shinobi to guard the Kaminapi Bridge."
"Now cutting off that bridge will be harder than ever."
Tsunade looked completely unwell. The battle had originally been very favorable for Konoha — in terms of manpower and high-end fighters, they had the advantage.
The operations against the tailed beasts had also been successful; how did it turn into this?
At least things were a bit better now that Gekko Chizan had returned — even Tsunade had to admit the kid was annoying but clever.
But his head was always full of unusual methods, like thinking of turning Katsuyu into a bomb — something Tsunade couldn't even imagine.
Now she hoped Gekko Chizan could come up with some bizarre strategy.
"This cracks me up — of course it's the stinky toad. Only they could pull something like that."
"Hahaha."
Tagitsuhime mercilessly mocked the toads of Mount Myoboku.
Gekko Chizan did his best not to laugh out loud, but his face had already gone red; the other two Snake Princesses were laughing hard as well.
This left Jiraiya and Minato utterly speechless — awkward, to the bone.
[Ding! The host was noticed mercilessly mocking the Mount Myoboku master-and-student pair together with the three Snake Princesses, leaving the pair utterly humiliated. Reward: taijutsu +2.]
Tch, damned system being lazy again.
This was the father and the teacher of the future prince, and it only gave such a small stat bonus — stingy!
System: Shut up, enough talk, right?
Gekko Chizan: You're the boss — you say so!
"Alright, Chizan, let's stop talking about this."
"Think about countermeasures instead."
"Right now we're locking lines with the enemy; both sides are burning resources."
"However, our lines are slowly retreating. Hanzō the Salamander's threat is enormous."
Tsunade leaned against a tree trunk, her face very grave. Seeing this, Gekko Chizan immediately waved his hand to stop the three Snake Princesses from making more noise.
"Ahem, ahem, I won't laugh anymore."
"I can't be blamed — it was just too funny."
"The accidental master-and-student duo, one hundred percent unexpected, hahahaha."
As he spoke, Gekko Chizan couldn't help laughing again. Three pairs of furious eyes shut him up instantly, and he continued:
"Don't look at me like that; you can't blame me."
"The current situation is already difficult for us, okay?"
"Hanzō — I didn't think he was that strong at first; after all, we've seen strong people before."
"But once we fought, I found out how disgusting he is."
"His poison gas is troublesome. The strong aren't afraid, but he can whittle everyone down until only the strong remain."
Tsunade and Jiraiya deeply understood that point. Back when they faced Hanzō, they had many comrades — but by the end only the three of them were left, earning the humiliating title of the Three Legendary Sannin of Konoha.
Hanzō's most troublesome thing was his gas: the area was huge, and every five minutes a massive toxic fog swept like Death's scythe, reaping the lives of ordinary shinobi.
"Plus there are two jinchūriki. Tsk tsk — not easy to fight."
"Minato, can you take out two jinchūriki at once?"
"Throw them into the sea?"
Gekko Chizan smiled at Minato, waiting for his response.
Minato's mouth twitched, and he shook his head.
"Chizan, don't joke. Those are tailed beasts."
"In earlier battles I used the Flying Thunder God Technique to tie down one, while the other was handled by Tsunade-sama and my teacher."
"Asking me to directly deal with two jinchūriki isn't realistic; chakra simply isn't enough."
Minato looked really helpless. He had thought his power was already strong — Flying Thunder God made him a dazzling flash on the battlefield.
But facing the tailed beasts directly, he still felt powerless.
"Then there's no other trick. Leave Hanzō to me — how dare he gang up on me on landing; I'll make him pull out of this battle."
"As for the others, I can't do much — I lack the ability to be everywhere at once."
Gekko Chizan sobered, his smile gone and his expression a little dark.
He held grudges — especially after being mobbed upon landing. If he didn't get revenge, it wouldn't be him.
As for how to get even — humph — he had plenty of methods.
"Alright. If you can tie Hanzō down so he can't rampage on the battlefield, the fight isn't hopeless."
"Chizan, damn..."
"Just reimburse me for the detonating tags I bought earlier."
Tsunade was about to pat Gekko Chizan on the shoulder to encourage him, but the next second his words set her CPU on fire.
That temper — it dyed her whole brain red.
"You little brat! You've gone too far!"