Right at that moment, the ground began shaking violently. A rhythmic booming sound grew closer. Everyone simultaneously turned toward the source of that sound.
At that instant, everyone gaped.
Visible was an extraordinarily large giant frog leaping rapidly from the distance. This frog had a height of almost twenty meters, as tall as a six or seven story building. In its mouth was tucked a giant smoking pipe, and at its waist hung a short sword—of course, it was only called a short sword for its body size.
On its back sat several people. Leading was Jiraiya with his white hair, the masked Kakashi, and Might Guy with short black hair who appeared very enthusiastic.
Kakashi frowned: "Jiraiya-sama, isn't our arrival like this too conspicuous?"
Guy responded enthusiastically: "I think this is excellent, this is what youth is! Look at those people, they look like they've never seen the outside world. They must have never seen a frog as cool as Gamabunta!"
Gamabunta retorted curtly: "Might Guy, if you talk too much again, I'll throw you out."
Jiraiya said: "Our world still has distance from here. If we don't use Gamabunta to make the journey, I'm afraid we won't make it in time. While the opening time of the next trial isn't clear, we must catch this trial!"
While speaking, Gamabunta made one more big leap, covering hundreds of meters. When landing, its tremor was felt in all directions, making people around scream in shock. However, Gamabunta's landing point was chosen very precisely, touching neither people nor any buildings. They came not to destroy.
"By the way, the buildings in this world are so strange. These buildings can be built that tall, do they also have help from earth element Ninjutsu?" Guy appeared like a child seeing the world for the first time, turning here and there full of curiosity.
Kakashi felt helpless and didn't want to engage with this friend of his. Embarrassing.
After several leaps, they had approached City J's harbor. For the first time, they saw the giant blue tower connecting heaven and earth, standing majestically and emitting heart-pounding pressure.
"Is this the Sacred Ruins Trial Tower? Truly miraculous!" Jiraiya muttered to himself while staring at the tower in the distance.
"Indeed miraculous!" Kakashi also showed a surprised expression, his eyes unblinking staring at that tower.
Guy was very enthusiastic: "Oooooh—an extraordinarily tall building! The end isn't visible at all. Who knows how long it would take to climb it. This is the best training ground! This is youth's trial arena!"
Jiraiya's face darkened: "Guy, I'm warning you. The First Hokage already instructed that we're not permitted to enter the trial tower. Only the hundred people we brought are allowed to enter!"
Guy felt slightly disappointed: "I know, Jiraiya-sama!"
Jiraiya still felt somewhat worried; this overly enthusiastic person sometimes acted without thinking things through. "Kakashi, watch him well!"
Jiraiya turned and gave instructions to Kakashi. Kakashi nodded.
With Gamabunta's leaps, they arrived at City J's harbor.
*BAM!*
Gamabunta landed right in front of Bang, Kizaru, and the others' group. The ground beneath cracked and formed a large hole.
Bang looked up staring at this large creature, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. If he hadn't seen Jiraiya and his group on that frog's back, perhaps they would have already attacked this big frog thinking it was a monster.
Meanwhile, the corners of Kizaru and Aokiji's mouths also twitched. They certainly recognized the white-haired man on top of that giant frog. He was the person they had fought when they went to Konoha Village before. The impression was very deep. Even the Third Hokage, Hiruzen whose ranking was above them couldn't do much to them, but this white-haired man before them could. Inside his body was a strange energy like Busoshoku Haki that could touch the physical body of logia users.
"Jiraiya?"
Aokiji and Kizaru looked at each other, then looked at Jiraiya and his group who jumped down, while forcing slight smiles.
Jiraiya's eyes gleamed, then he laughed: "Long time no see, Admiral Aokiji and Admiral Kizaru!"
Both parties seemed to forget they had been at odds before, they laughed amicably as if old friends meeting again.
Bang looked at both parties with a strange expression. He remembered in the Gold List information, these people were previously on opposing sides and had fought each other. Why did they now appear like close friends?
Indeed, in the adult world, there were no eternal enemies, what existed was only eternal interests. For them now, there were no major conflicts of interest; the most important thing before their eyes was only that Sacred Ruins Trial Tower.
"Ooh ooh, I feel you two are very familiar..."
Guy suddenly pointed toward Kizaru and Akainu and shouted. He was famous as a severe "face blindness" sufferer. After thinking hard for quite a while, he patted his head and stared at Aokiji: "I remember now! At that time you were imprisoned in a water prison, and I once brought you food..."
Just halfway through speaking, his mouth was immediately covered by Kakashi.
Aokiji's expression twitched violently, veins protruding on his forehead, he felt like attacking. Conversely, Kizaru breathed a sigh of relief.
'Fortunately I escaped quickly back then, otherwise, the embarrassment would be unbearable!'
He glanced at Aokiji with sympathy, imagining this person when imprisoned in the water prison, the corner of his lips couldn't help but lift slightly.
Aokiji glanced at Kizaru, he felt like beating this person up too!
Black lines appeared on Jiraiya's forehead. He waved his hand repeatedly, giving signals for Kakashi to quickly drag Guy away.
'I knew this person couldn't be relied on, I shouldn't have brought him!'
The three parties each had their own thoughts. They looked at each other and laughed, but the atmosphere felt slightly awkward.
"Everyone, since this is your first time coming here, it's proper that I host you as the landlord. Currently there's still time before the trial begins, please follow me."
These three parties represented their respective worlds, so Bang didn't dare underestimate them. He led them toward a building in the distance.
The Hero Association party had actually already guessed that strong fighters from other worlds would come. After all, this Sacred Ruins Trial Tower created by the Gold List's First Place was very important, it was impossible they wouldn't come to see it. Therefore, lodging had already been prepared beforehand.
A thirty-three floor five-star hotel beside the harbor had been completely emptied to accommodate groups from these various worlds.
On the thirty-third floor of that hotel, precisely in the living room, there was a large round meeting table in front of the wide glass window.
From the One Punch Man world: Saitama, Tatsumaki, Bang, Child Emperor... and other S-Class heroes sat there. From the One Piece world: Aokiji and Kizaru occupied two chairs. From the Naruto world: Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Guy occupied three chairs.
This glass window faced directly toward the coast, showing very clearly that extraordinarily large bright blue Sacred Ruins Trial Tower.