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  Boom-

  As if a small earthquake had occurred, it jolted Shizune awake from her slumber.

  "W-What happened?!"

  "Did the debt collectors e after us?"

  "Lady Tsunade, let's run!"

  Almost reflexively, Shizune leaped up from the tatami mat. Her eyes weren't even ope, but she was already scrambling to grab the "valuables box" she'd packed in advance, just in case they o make a quick escape.

  As her still-sleeping soul caught up with her slender body, Shizune's sciousness gradually came online.

  She looked around.

  There were collectors; only one person stood in the open space of the small courtyard, her foot having cracked the solid ground with a siomp.

  Tsuood there with a gloomy expression, like a human volo suppressing her fury, ready to erupt at any moment.

  In her hand, Tsuightly gripped a neer. Under her immerength, the paper was crumpled into a ball, making the inal text unreadable.

  Clearly, the source of her anger came from this.

  Cautiously, Shizune approached her. "did something happen in Konoha?"

  Shizune had never seen her "foster mother" so furious. Evehe st member of the Senju besides Tsunade had passed away, she hadn't shown such emotional upheaval.

  This scary aura... it was as if she was about to destroy the entire ninja world single-handedly.

  That's it!

  A big adjective popped into Shizune's little head-*"The Terminator of the Ninja World: Tsunade"*

  In her mind, she imagisunade quietly floating in mid-air, raising her right hand toward the ground, ting to the despairing ninjas below: "Hear me, the silence of extin!"

  "Ah..." Tsunade exhaled deeply, squinting her almond-shaped eyes. She instructed, "Shizune, pack up our things. We're returning to the vilge."

  "Oh, returning... Eh?! Return to the vilge? So suddenly?"

  Shizune's heart skipped a beat.

  Things were more serious than she had imagined. Something major must have happened in the vilge for Tsunade, who had left, to suddenly want to go back.

  "Yes, we have to go back. e and see, Shizune."

  Shizuook the crumpled neer from Tsunade's hand, and the headli the top caught her eye.

  She couldn't help but excim, "Advisojo was assassinated?!"

  Realizing what this meant to Tsunade, Shizune quickly said, "Our things are alacked; we leave anytime."

  "Let's return to Konoha now, Lady Tsunade."

  The seedy atmosphere of Tanzaku Town was too much for a young girl like Shizune.

  Setting aside Gojo Kaigetsu's assassination and uain fate, young Shizune had long wao return.

  Return to the most prosperous area of the Land of Fire!

  Enjoy the life of a wealthy young dy that beloo her.

  Though following Tsunade arou her penniless, if they returo Konoha, she could just collect rent and live fortably for the rest of her life.

  You might say Shizune has nht to i Tsunade's wealth? On this point, both Tsunade and Shizune were well aware; Shizune, being associated with the Senju , could be sidered an honorary member.

  Suddenly, Shizune seemed to think of something, full of worry:

  "The assassination happewo or three days aght? But... the Fourth Hokage hasn't sent ao find you, Lady Tsunade."

  "Could it be that Advisojo has already..."

  Shizune didn't utter the worst possibility. Such words would hurt Tsuoo much.

  Lost her grandfather in childhood, her brother in youth, and in middle age... her lover.

  Hi one be?

  Tsunade g Shizune expressionlessly. "Shizune, you're still too young."

  "The Fourth Hokage is an ho kid. If Gojo Kaigetsu had really had an act, he would have e to find me immediately."

  "Since he hasn't e, that means he's not dead."

  Pointing to the words "life ah unknown" on the neer, Tsunade said, "It's just a smokes thrown out to the ninja world."

  "Ah...? Is that so?" Shizutered softly. "Since Advisojo is fine, why were you so angry just now?"

  "Angry?"

  Tsunade crossed her arms under her ample bosom, sneeriedly. "I know that guy Gojo Kaigetsu too well. Right now, he's probably hiding somewhere in Konoha, enjoying the feeling of being missed."

  "I'm angry that after he was assassinated and didn't die, he didn't send someoo tell me immediately."

  "Is he really not afraid I'll worry, or is he trying to use this method to force me back to the vilge?"

  "Since he enjoys being thought about, I'll fulfill his wish. I'll return to the vilge and make him truly 'life ah unknown.'"

  "I'll punch him in the waist, paralyze him from the waist down, and when I need him to move, I'll heal him with my Mystical Palm Teique."

  Hearing this, Shizune shivered violently.

  This was truly the most brutal punishment.

  Take back the earlier thought; Tsunade isn't the destroyer of the ninja world, but the destroyer of Advisojo.

  As a fellow female ninja, she empathized with Tsunade.

  Advisojo was really going too far! Knowing full well that Tsunade had been thinking about him in Tanzaku Tow he still pyed this fake death game.

  Heartless man!

  Shizune waved her fist, using body nguage to show support, and said, "Lady Tsunade, perhaps you should give Advisojo a little face. After all, he's now a Konoha Advisor & Elder. If he gets hurt, it'll be Konoha's reputation that's tarnished if wets out."

  "Tarnish Konoha's reputation?" Tsunade looked amused. "Konoha is my family's. If I don't care, who else o?"

  "...You're right."

  Tsunade's graceful figure bathed in sunlight; she squinted her eyes, gazing at the bzing sun.

  "e to think of it, it's been a long time since I've been home. Let's go bad see how that guy has messed up my house."

  Before long, the two women had packed up their belongings in Tanzaku Town.

  Shizune first quietly opehe back door of their small house, poked her head out, looked around, and after firming that collectors had spotted them to block the door, she gestured back:

  "All clear, Lady Tsunade. We depart now."

  ~Let's slip away~

  The big spender of Tanzaku Town, and also the collective debtor of the gamblers.

  Although she was a highly skilled ninja, Tsunade had never relied on her ninja status to default os. Well, she just defaulted as an ordinary gambler, running away whe collectors came knog.

  Uhe other party had some bad iions, Tsunade was happy to py debt games with these non-ninja gambling buddies.

  But after just a few steps...

  "It's her, there she is!"

  A voice filled with anger seemed to form a wall, blog Tsunade and Shizune's path.

  Shizune awkwardly stopped iracks, seeing the group of debt collectors not far away. It was too te to avoid them now.

  A man with a shark-like face, carrying a bizarre rge sword on his shoulder, exuding a scary aura, roteg the debt collectors as he approached them step by step.

  Just by his appearand stance alo was clear that the oppo was scaryly strong.

  "The Samehada Sword of the Hidden Mist?" Tsunade squinted her eyes, muttering, "It's just a bit of debt; is it necessary to hire a ninja of this caliber to collect it?"

  After all, as one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, even though her skills had rusted a bit due to frequent gambling, she still had basic disment.

  Of course, part of it was that the Samehada Sword's fshy design had quite high reizability.

  However, the Samehada Sword had a new owner now, and pared to the holder from Tsunade's era... this one was the most outstanding.

  Having identified Hoshigaki Kisame as the wielder of the ninja sword, Tsunade remained uurbed.

  If it were an ordinary ninja, even a Jonin, upon seeing the Samehada Sword, they would immediately calcute their escape route.

  But Tsunade was different.

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