"Chiba, are you... all right?"
Kushina looked at the table full of completely empty bowls and plates, then at Chiba in front of her, who seemed thoroughly satisfied after eating, and could not help frowning as she asked.
This...
She knew Chiba's appetite had surely grown since before, but wasn't this a little too exaggerated?
That had been enough food for nearly ten people...
Just how big was this child's stomach? That was the thought in her mind.
"I-I'm fine!"
Hearing Kushina's question, Chiba hurriedly shook his head and replied.
Yet as he spoke, his brow creased ever so slightly.
Was it my imagination?
I ate so much, yet I still don't feel particularly full? But I don't feel hungry enough to want to eat either?
What...
What happened to my body? Such a thought crossed his mind. Though he had eaten an entire table's worth of food—nearly enough for ten people—he did not feel full at all. It was as if the food had vanished into the sea. He felt neither hungry nor full, an exceedingly strange sensation.
Still, aside from that strange feeling, he had no other discomfort. For the moment, Chiba could not make sense of it either.
Of course, he really was fine.
"All right..."
After carefully looking Chiba over from head to toe and finding nothing unusual, Kushina could only nod in the end.
Then she rose to clear the dishes.
"Have you two eaten enough?"
At that moment, Chiba seemed to think of something and hurriedly asked. He had been so focused on eating, driven by that inexplicable hunger, that he had not considered the two of them at all. Seeing Kushina's and Yukina's spotless bowls and chopsticks, he worried that he had eaten everything and left nothing for them.
"We ate a long