I remember that being discussed at the time, with people saying that it was an inaccurate translation.Originally posted by: Casualty
To back me up here: "Yes. If we both fought him, we would both be killed...or in a good case, we might kill him, but we'd die along with him." -Itachi speaking about Jiraiya from the AA trans of 83
S-O simply had him saying that it would be risky.