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Chapter 235 Tsunade Returns to the Village

To verify the feasibility of "resurrecting multiple individuals from split souls," Orochimaru remained holed up in the laboratory for the next few days.

After such tireless research, Orochimaru finally made some progress.

"Tsk, it can revive, but the effect isn't very good."

In an ordinary room, Orochimaru looked at the eight Danzos standing in front of him with a somewhat helpless expression.

"His eyes were lifeless, his movements were stiff, and he had no self-awareness whatsoever, just like a puppet."

The scene before us was somewhat eerie.

If Orochimaru's experiment was successful, these resurrected Danzos had no self-awareness and could only passively obey others' orders. They would only do what others told them to do.

Furthermore, this "other people" does not only refer to Orochimaru, but also to other people.

Anyone could order Danzo around as long as they received an order.

Moreover, these instructions cannot be too complicated; they can only be simple tasks such as running errands and fetching things.

That's really a bit of a rip-off.

But to say that the resurrection failed wouldn't be accurate.

After all, Danzo did indeed come back to life.

The body is a clone of Danzo, and the soul is also his own, except that each clone only contains one-eighth of the soul.

How can it not be considered resurrection if it has both a body and a soul?

"That makes it a bit of a double-edged sword."

Orochimaru's original plan was that if this experiment succeeded, he would be able to create many versions of himself.

With multiple people working on the same research together, they're bound to come up with something amazing.

At worst, he could resurrect the same powerful figure multiple times, which would allow him to truly dominate the entire ninja world.

Unfortunately, this experiment was not satisfactory, and it produced something that was completely useless.

"Forget it, even a piece of toilet paper has its use. Let's just use these mindless Danzos as consumables."

Consumables?

That's right, it's consumables.

As is well known, the strength of a person "resurrected" using the Impure World Reincarnation technique depends entirely on the quality of the sacrifice offered.

Currently, Orochimaru has exhausted all his efforts to optimize the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

However, at most, it can only allow the reanimated body to possess about 50% of its own peak strength; it cannot do more than that.

Now that we have this batch of Danzo's consumables, we can put the further improvement of the Impure World Reincarnation technique on the agenda.

"I wonder if injecting Hashirama cells into Danzo and using their unique properties to enhance the power of the Edo Tensei body would work."

"Whatever, clone Danzo is super cheap anyway, might as well give it a try."

Just as Orochimaru was busy further improving the Impure World Reincarnation technique, at the entrance of Konoha Village, a female ninja with light yellow hair, bright brown eyes, light red lips, red fingernails, fair skin, and a broad chest appeared before the two Konoha gatekeepers.

"Tsunade-sama?"

"Lady Tsunade, you're back!"

"Oh, it's Izumo Kazuko Tetsuya."

This stunningly beautiful woman is none other than Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin.

"I remember you were guarding the gate before I left the village, and you're still guarding the gate after all these years."

Tsunade's casual remark made the two gatekeepers feel utterly ashamed.

It's not that they didn't try, it's just that their talent was limited, and at best they could only become special Jonin.

With their current strength, it's probably impossible for them to be promoted to full-fledged Jonin in their lifetime.

"Get back to work, I'm going in now."

"Lady Tsunade, should we send someone to inform the Fifth Hokage?"

"The Fifth Hokage? Oh, you mean Jiraiya? No need to notify him, I'll go find him myself."

"Yes, Lady Tsunade."

"Mute, let's go!"

With a slight wave of her hand, Tsunade beckoned to the pure and beautiful girl following behind her, who was holding a small pig in her arms.

"Yes, Lady Tsunade."

Although Tsunade did not have Izumo send someone to inform Jiraiya, Jiraiya knew about her return immediately.

"Tsunade is back. I wonder if she'll go and give that old man a good beating."

In order to bring Tsunade back, Jiraiya, in the name of the Third Hokage, fabricated a story that a village had already resurrected the First and Second Hokage.

In retrospect, this rhetoric was quite effective.

Upon receiving the news, Tsunade immediately brought Shizune back.

However, Jiraiya looked at Shizune in the crystal ball with a slightly strange expression.

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He recalled Orochimaru's teasing of him when he watched a video reviewing Kato Dan.

"I, Jiraiya, am making this clear."

"Even if I never get married, grow old alone, and am all by myself, I will never lay a hand on Shizune."

"I am not like Orochimaru, that beast who has no sense of morality or shame."

"Hmph hmph hmph!"

Around the same time, the Third Hokage, who was using a crystal ball to survey Konoha at home, also spotted Tsunade and Shizune.

"Tsunade really did fall for Jiraiya's trick and came back."

The Third Hokage was overjoyed to see Tsunade; all three of his students had returned to the village, which made him, as their teacher, feel very gratified.

After the initial relief came the fear.

He knew exactly how Tsunade had returned.

It was that traitorous bastard Jiraiya who tricked Tsunade into coming back using his name.

If Tsunade found out she had been tricked, she would really beat the person up.

"I wonder how many punches my old bones can withstand from Tsunade."

Based on her memory, Tsunade arrived at the Hokage's office in the office building without any problems.

Without knocking, Tsunade kicked the door open and went inside.

"Sigh~ I'm already the Hokage, you could at least give me some face by knocking on the door."

With a wave of his hand, an ANBU ninja appeared in front of Jiraiya, tactfully carrying the door panel out and standing at the door as a gatekeeper.

"Stop talking nonsense. You know why I came back. Tell me now, where are my great-grandfather and second great-grandfather?"

"Don't rush."

When the time came, Jiraiya didn't panic. Instead, he pointed to the empty office door and said, "This door was replaced after I became Hokage. Since we're old friends, I'll charge you the cost price."

"You actually want me to pay you back?"

Tsunade stared wide-eyed at Jiraiya in utter astonishment.

"How novel! Even if I, the Hokage, damage public property, I still have to pay for it."

Seeing that Jiraiya's attitude was somewhat firm, Tsunade knew that she was bound to lose the money.

"It's just a door. Tell me, how much?"

Tsunade looked disdainful.

Over the years, she had accumulated a mountain of gambling debts. She certainly didn't have a lot of money, but she felt she could afford to buy a door.

(End of this chapter)