Seeing Sakura's dejected expression, Naruto hurriedly swallowed the plum blossom pork he had been chewing and opened his mouth to comfort her.
"Sakura-chan, I saw you carrying that huge stack of books home before."
"That many books—finishing them in a month is already incredible!"
"If it were me, I wouldn't finish them in a year!"
As he spoke, he gestured with both hands to show how thick that enormous stack of books had been.
Jiraiya merely shook his head, calmly took a sip of sake from his cup, and rolled his eyes at Naruto.
Hah. You?
A year?
With that temperament of yours, you wouldn't finish them even if you had a lifetime. You'd probably start getting sleepy less than three seconds after opening a book.
But Tsunade, standing nearby, was already struggling to keep herself composed.
What kind of humblebrag was that? She remembered perfectly well that when she had studied Medical Ninjutsu under her grandmother Mito, it had taken her a full three months to finish those three series of books!
Yet Sakura had done it in just one month? Was this some kind of joke?
But seeing Sakura's admiring expression beside her, she did not dare show too much shock. She put on an act as if Sakura's performance was merely decent and laughed twice.
"Ha ha, really? You finished them in a month and even learned a C-rank Healing Technique."
"You may not compare to me back then, but you're still quite good."
"Mm, mm. Very good, very good indeed."
Jiraiya silently turned his head away.
Heh... He remembered it perfectly well. Tsunade had spent three months on them, and when she had gotten frustrated trying to memorize the material, she had even beaten him up to vent. Those days... he did not even dare think