In the living room.
"Sister Tsunade, what exactly is going on with this ninjutsu?"
Although Uzumaki Kushina had not understood everything, she had caught part of it. This matter concerned her.
"It's more or less what you guessed."
Tsunade's teasing remark made Uzumaki Kushina blush furiously. She looked awkwardly at Tsunade and Mito.
Seeing this warm scene, the elderly Uzumaki Mito smiled and shook her head. Then she thought of everything that had happened recently.
Especially how, not long ago, even her granddaughter Tsunade had nearly fallen on the front lines. Her expression could not help turning grave.
"Kushina, I originally wanted to give you a happier childhood, but with everything that has happened recently, there are some things you must learn about."
Beneath Uzumaki Mito's kindly expression lay a trace of sorrow. This was the dark side of the ninja world.
Seeing this, Tsunade paused with her wineglass in hand. After taking a drink, she said softly, "Grandma, let me tell Kushina about this."
Under Uzumaki Kushina's puzzled gaze, Tsunade began recounting everything that had happened during this period. Though her expression was languid, there was a clear look of annoyance between her brows.
"First, Grandma and I received intelligence that someone in the village was plotting against Nawaki... After Nawaki's accident, we investigated from every angle but found nothing. Instead, this... Then there was the Jonin meeting... and the intelligence we received earlier..."
Tsunade calmly told Uzumaki Kushina everything that had happened over the past year, in painstaking detail, letting her understand that Konoha Village had darkness within it as well.
However, she had still concealed certain matters, such as Nawaki's exact circumstances, the role Uchiha Yoru had played in it all, and how they had obtained that intelligence.
She had even kept the matter in the Land