"Why isn't he here yet? Don't tell me he's still asleep?"
Tsunade glanced at the clock. The hour hand pointed at twelve, and the minute hand had already passed the halfway mark.
Since Mu Yue had arrived around this time for the past two days, Tsunade assumed he would come at roughly the same time today.
"Mu Yue-sensei probably isn't the type to wake up at noon," Shizune said, certain that Mu Yue was different from Tsunade.
"What's wrong with waking up at noon? It's not like there's anything to do. Isn't sleeping until whenever the same thing?" Tsunade felt that Shizune's words carried another meaning, so she reached out with her evil hands toward Shizune's cheeks.
"Mmph..." Shizune had wanted to say that waking up at noon meant losing a third of the day outright, but Tsunade's cheek-rubbing assault made her words incomprehensible.
Even at one o'clock, Tsunade still hadn't seen any sign of Mu Yue, so she simply began teaching Shizune.
"I'm still teaching you the Mystical Palm Technique, right?" Tsunade asked Shizune.
"Mm." Shizune nodded.
At two-thirty, Mu Yue entered Tsunade's courtyard with a small box in hand.
"Lady Tsunade," Mu Yue greeted her with a smile, placing the box beside Tsunade and Shizune.
Tsunade had just finished lecturing for a while and was taking a break. She nodded in acknowledgment, then immediately opened the gift box.
The moment Shizune saw the little pastries inside, her eyes lit up.
Tsunade casually picked one up and put it into her mouth, then nodded. She had to admit that Mu Yue truly had a gift when it came to food. Even someone like her, who did not particularly like sweets, found it quite tasty.
"Go ahead and eat. I brought it for you in the first place," Mu Yue