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Chapter 191 191: Would You Bare Your Heart to an Ant? · Oct 25, 2026

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151 Chapter 151 151: We’re Going to Help Sasuke 2026-10-25
152 Chapter 152 152: The Rinnegan Invasion 2026-10-25
153 Chapter 153 153: For the Sake of World Peace 2026-10-25
154 Chapter 154 154: Peace Through Destruction 2026-10-25
155 Chapter 155 155: Shinra Tensei 2026-10-25
156 Chapter 156 156: Konoha Is Nearly Wiped Out 2026-10-25
157 Chapter 157 157: Karin’s Excitement 2026-10-25
158 Chapter 158 158: They Must Be Captured 2026-10-25
159 Chapter 159 159: Sasuke Makes His Move 2026-10-25
160 Chapter 160 160: Hinata Is Impaled 2026-10-25
161 Chapter 161 161: Nagato’s Story 2026-10-25
162 Chapter 162 162: As Expected… It Was Danzō Again 2026-10-25
163 Chapter 163 163: Naruto — I Believe 2026-10-25
164 Chapter 164 164: A Little Sun Begins to Shine 2026-10-25
165 Chapter 165 165: Talk no Jutsu Succeeds 2026-10-25
166 Chapter 166 166: The Crow with the Sharingan 2026-10-25
167 Chapter 167 167: Got You 2026-10-25
168 Chapter 168 168: Naruto Has Been Hit 2026-10-25
169 Chapter 169 169: The Demon God Loves Me Most 2026-10-25
170 Chapter 170 170: When Darkness Descends, Even Light Must Recede 2026-10-25
171 Chapter 171 171: Asura 2026-10-25
172 Chapter 172 172: Playing with Fire 2026-10-25
173 Chapter 173 173: Does Your Father Not Like You? 2026-10-25
174 Chapter 174 174: Planetary Devastation 2026-10-25
175 Chapter 175 175: Breaking the Seal 2026-10-25
176 Chapter 176 176: A Single Sigh 2026-10-25
177 Chapter 177 177: The Demon God’s Favorite Child 2026-10-25
178 Chapter 178 178: A God-Tier Move 2026-10-25
179 Chapter 179 179: Naruto and Sasuke Awaken 2026-10-25
180 Chapter 180 180: Heroes? 2026-10-25
181 Chapter 181 181: Descendants of Traitors 2026-10-25
182 Chapter 182 182: The Devil Fruit 2026-10-25
183 Chapter 183 183: Yamata no Orochi 2026-10-25
184 Chapter 184 184: Let’s Call Them the Seven Warlords Under the King 2026-10-25
185 Chapter 185 185: Jiraiya — I’ll Be Fine 2026-10-25
186 Chapter 186 186: Naruto — Even If I Become a Puppet 2026-10-25
187 Chapter 187 187: Maybe… It’s Better If You Don’t Come Back 2026-10-25
188 Chapter 188 188: This Is What an Invasion Looks Like 2026-10-25
189 Chapter 189 189: You Konoha Are Far Too Arrogant 2026-10-25
190 Chapter 190 190: Tsunade Was So Angry She Laughed 2026-10-25
191 Chapter 191 191: Would You Bare Your Heart to an Ant? 2026-10-25
192 Chapter 192 192: Hashirama Senju Was the Ultimate Weapon 2026-10-25
193 Chapter 193 193: A Trace Discovered 2026-10-25
194 Chapter 194 194: Danzō Appears 2026-10-25
195 Chapter 195 195: The Mysterious Bark-Skinned Man 2026-10-25
196 Chapter 196 196: Toying With Him 2026-10-25
197 Chapter 197 197: The Perfect Fall Guy 2026-10-25
198 Chapter 198 198: Utter Nonsense 2026-10-25
199 Chapter 199 199: One of the Seven Warlords 2026-10-25
200 Chapter 200 200: Elevating Karin’s Status 2026-10-25

A brief silence settled over the office.

The wind outside the window and the faint shouts of shinobi training in the distance suddenly seemed unusually clear.

Tsunade straightened and walked to the window, turning her back to Jiraiya as she looked out at the lights gradually flickering on in the dusk.

Konoha—so prosperous, so… peaceful.

How much of that peace had been built upon the blood, tears, and humiliation of countries like the Land of Rain?

She stood there for a long time—so long that Jiraiya thought she might not answer at all, or would offer some equally uncertain reply.

Then she turned around.

The anger on her face had vanished, replaced by a calm so cold it bordered on cruel.

She met Jiraiya’s eyes and said, word by word, clear and icy:

”Would you… bare your heart to an ant?”

Buzz—

The sentence struck like a steel needle piercing his eardrum and driving straight through his brain.

The color drained from Jiraiya’s face instantly. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He could only stare at Tsunade in disbelief.

He understood.

An ant…

In Tsunade’s eyes—in Konoha’s eyes—in the eyes of the leadership of the Great Nations—the Land of Rain, and all similar small and weak countries… their suffering, their struggles, their lives—

Perhaps they truly were nothing more than… ants.

Seeing his paper-white face and trembling pupils, a flicker of reluctance crossed Tsunade’s eyes. But it was quickly buried beneath deeper exhaustion and the crushing weight of reality.

She let out a heavy sigh, one filled with fatigue.

”My words are harsh,” she said, her voice lowering but remaining firm. ”But, Jiraiya… that’s the truth.”

She walked back behind her desk but did not sit. Her fingers traced absentmindedly along the grain of the wood.

”Great Nations and small nations. Strong and weak. Resources, influence, living space… they’ve never been equal.”

”So-called ’mutual understanding’ is often nothing more than a demand—or charity—from the strong toward the weak.”

”And the weak… have no room to choose.”

”They either accept it, or they are destroyed.”

”What those people in the Land of Rain said—was it painful? Was it real? Of course it was. Every accusation, every tear, was real.”

Her voice was calm—so calm it chilled him.

”But that truth doesn’t change the reality that they are weak. And it doesn’t change the rules of the power struggle between Great Nations.”

A cold, mocking curl touched her lips.

”Do you think the other nations don’t know what that kid Kurowa was saying?”

”Of course they know. But when those reports land on the desks of high-ranking officials, they’re glanced at, scoffed at… and tossed straight into the trash.”

”Why?” She answered her own question. ”Because it doesn’t matter.”

”In their eyes, the public opinion of the Land of Rain—their pain—doesn’t matter.”

”What matters is Nagato’s power. The Rinnegan. That damned ’Devil Fruit.’ The future revealed by the mysterious projection.”

”As for the cries of civilians… they’re just the wails of ’ants.’ No one cares. No one needs to.”

She looked at Jiraiya, her gaze complicated.

He sat slumped in his chair, as though all strength had left his body.

Tsunade’s words were colder than the accusations of the Rain civilians.

Because they tore away every layer of warmth and idealism, exposing the cruel, naked core of international reality.

Was he wrong? Was Konoha wrong?

On the level of ideals—perhaps.

But on the level of reality, this wasn’t about right or wrong.

It was about rules.

The weak adapt to the rules.

The strong create them—or exploit them.

And trying to bridge that chasm with ”heart” and ”understanding” would often end like this—

Head bloodied from crashing into a wall.

Rejected by both sides.

The office lights flickered on, casting long shadows of the two of them against the wall. They looked strangely lonely.

Jiraiya stared up at the ceiling, his eyes hollow.

The cold rain of the Land of Rain—and Tsunade’s even colder words—had soaked through something he had relied on for years, freezing it stiff.

”In truth, isn’t Konoha the same?” Tsunade let out a short, humorless laugh and rubbed her face. ”You think Nagato’s method of peace is extreme, don’t you?”

Jiraiya forced himself back to awareness and nodded immediately.

”He wants to create a weapon capable of destroying an entire village—or even a country. How is that not extreme? It’s wrong!”

”Wrong?” Tsunade murmured.

Then she burst into laughter.

”Jiraiya, you’re too naïve.”

He gave a bitter smile. ”Sometimes… I think so too.”

”Then let me show you the rules of this world.”

Her expression hardened, and she snapped,

”You think Nagato is wrong—but you don’t realize that what Nagato learned… he learned from us. Konoha rose to power by the very same logic.”

”That’s impossible!”

The denial burst from Jiraiya instinctively—the reflex of someone whose core beliefs had just been shaken.

”That’s impossible! How could Konoha produce something like that?!” His voice cracked with agitation, his face even paler than before.

Tsunade only looked at him coldly, with a trace of almost cruel mockery in her eyes—like someone watching a grown child finally being forced to face an unbearable truth.

”Heh…”

She turned away and faced the enormous Hokage Monument carved into the mountainside.

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