"Don't believe him! That's absolutely impossible! Even if the Three Kage joined forces, there's no way we would lose to him!"
Rasa roared at the Wind Country ninja who had collapsed to the ground, refusing to accept Jiraiya's words.
Their courage to resist Fire Country came entirely from the Three Kage. If they were truly dead, then Wind Country was finished.
Even if Jiraiya was telling the truth, Rasa simply couldn't accept it. The Wind Country ninja had the courage to oppose Fire Country only because of the Three Kage.
"That's right! The Three Kage couldn't possibly have been killed by Jiraiya! He must be lying to crush our morale! If we believe him, we've fallen right into his trap!"
"The Three Kage stand at the very top of the ninja world. Together, there's no way they'd lose to Jiraiya!"
"Jiraiya sure knows how to brag!"
Many Wind Country ninjas chimed in, unwilling to believe what they had just heard.
Jiraiya merely sighed. "You people really don't know when to give up. Do I look like I need to lie to you?"
With that, he tossed a storage scroll into the air. As it unfurled, the severed heads of the Tsuchikage and Mizukage tumbled out onto the battlefield. As for the Raikage's corpse, it had been reduced to ash, leaving nothing behind.
The sight of the two heads sent a shockwave through the ranks of the Wind Country ninja. It was as if boiling oil had been poured into a pool of cold water.
"It's true... The Three Kage are really dead... Jiraiya actually killed them... Wind Country is doomed..."
"How could we ever hope to fight an enemy like this? Why did we ever provoke him in the first place?"
"Resistance is meaningless now..."
Despair consumed the Wind Country ninja. Some, unwilling to face the fate of a defeated nation, took out their kunai and slit their own throats, choosing death over surrender.
"It's over... It's really over..."
Rasa, who had been determined to resist Fire Country until the bitter end, lost all strength in his body. His eyes dulled with hopelessness, and he collapsed onto the ground.
He had wanted to lead Wind Country in one final desperate struggle for survival, but with the Three Kage dead, fighting on was nothing but suicide. There was no hope of victory.
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"Jiraiya-sama is incredible! He took down three Kage in such a short time! Even the First Hokage couldn't have achieved this level of power at his age!"
"This is unreal! We've been fighting all this time, and we haven't even managed to kill a single elite jonin, yet Jiraiya-sama just wiped out three Kage and even sealed the Two-Tails and Five-Tails! How did he do it?"
"Jiraiya-sama! With him leading Fire Country, who would dare challenge us? Who could even stand against us?"
"Hahaha! With this battle, Fire Country now has the power to unify the entire ninja world!"
"Fighting alongside a legend like Jiraiya-sama is the greatest honor of our lives!"
Compared to the despair gripping the Wind Country ninja, the Fire Country forces were ecstatic. None of them had expected Jiraiya to be this powerful.
When they first heard that the Three Kage had personally led an army to invade Fire Country, fear had gripped their hearts. They believed there was no way to resist such an overwhelming force.
Yet, against all odds, the Kage they feared so much—and even their tailed beasts—had been wiped out by Jiraiya alone.
In that moment, every Fire Country ninja saw Jiraiya as the new god of the shinobi world. Their reverence for him reached unprecedented heights.
...
The most bewildered of all were the ninja from Water Country, Earth Country, and Lightning Country.
They had followed their Kage into battle against Fire Country. Before setting out, their leaders had even discussed how they would divide up the conquered lands of Fire and Wind.
Victory had seemed assured. They had believed that, once the war was over, their nations would rise to unprecedented power.
But now... in the blink of an eye, their Kage were dead.
What kind of nightmare was this?
...
Hovering above the battlefield, Jiraiya's voice rang out once more.
"If you want to live, drop your weapons and raise your hands."
Jiraiya had initiated this war to unify the ninja world and put an end to its chaos—not to be a butcher. As long as the Wind Country ninja surrendered and allowed their chakra to be sealed, he was willing to spare their lives.
Most of the remaining ninja just wanted to survive. One by one, they threw down their weapons and raised their hands in surrender. Fire Country's ninja quickly moved in to restrain and seal their chakra.
"You traitors! Die!"
However, not everyone was willing to give up. Some Wind Country ninja, seeing their comrades surrender, immediately attacked them with jutsu. Even though they knew victory was impossible, they refused to yield. They would rather die than accept defeat.
Chaos erupted once more. Those who had surrendered were forced to fight back against those who refused to yield.
As for the ninja from the other three nations, they were vastly outnumbered but refused to abandon their pride. These were the elites of their villages, warriors who upheld their own ninja way. Even though their Kage were gone, they would not surrender. Instead, they launched a desperate final assault against the Fire Country forces.
Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi had been waiting for this moment.
Seeing the elite ninja refusing to surrender, Jiraiya and Hiruzen moved.
One by one, the strongest enemy ninja were swiftly eliminated, unable to put up any meaningful resistance. Soon, those who still wished to fight were all dead.
...
"Jiraiya, now that they've surrendered, what do we do with them?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned. The sheer number of Wind Country prisoners was a problem. Even with their chakra sealed, keeping them imprisoned in Fire Country could be dangerous. If mishandled, they could spark internal unrest.
Jiraiya answered without hesitation.
"Seal their chakra permanently, then send them back to Wind Country. Assign elite jonin to oversee the daimyo's affairs, and treat the prisoners as civilians. Have them work the land under strict supervision."
To create a stable, lasting peace, the number of active ninja had to be controlled. The fewer combat-capable ninja there were, the less likely another war would break out.
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