"So, in other words, there hadn't been any major changes in the village. The Peace Alliance had ultimately gone through smoothly, and in another month, Iwagakure would probably come for formal peace talks. By then, the Land of Lightning would be unable to stand alone, and the Third Great Ninja War would end. Everything had settled down. Lady Yukina was now the deputy minister of the Defense Force, and the Hyuga Clan didn't dare say another word to her, right?"
After firing off over a hundred questions, Hyuga Yukyō straightened up and stretched slightly before speaking.
"Yeah, I told you there was nothing wrong. Yet you insisted on asking so many questions, big and small, about everything. Aren't you deliberately putting me through the wringer?"
At the same time, as soon as he spoke, Chiba across from him could not help standing up and stretching as well. He had spent a full four hours answering his questions, and this guy was becoming more and more outrageous, asking even trivial details with painstaking care—especially anything concerning Yukina.
Over the past half year, he had mostly focused on his own training. He only occasionally spent fragments of free time asking about Hirohiko, Yukina, and village affairs, or learned about them passively from others. Since Hirohiko and Yukina were with the construction team, he did not know much in detail; most of what he knew had come from Kushina.
Over the past half year, Asuma and the others would sometimes come see him, telling him about the village's large and small matters or complaining about current events. They were plainly afraid that training alone would turn him into an idiot, while also taking the chance to vent their little frustrations.
Fortunately, those few came by from time to time. Otherwise, those hundred-plus questions