Jiraiya hopped back about a foot. "I'm not gonna hurt you." More thrashing. "Alright, let's start with something simple. I'm Jiraiya." There was no recognition, he wasn't even surprised by that. Nobody knew who he was anymore, "What's your name?"
Panicking civilians with weapons were more dangerous than trained shinobi in the right conditions and this kid had a weapon growing out of his forehead. So it was a donkey show with a unicorn instead of a donkey. Weirder things happened in this place. He had to get Unicorn Show to calm down.