"I'm full! Brother Kazuha said I should leave some for the people eating with me now and then, so I'm done. The rest is yours!"
After swallowing the last mouthful of delicious meat soup, Hada Anna's face showed a trace of reluctance. Then, with a look of determination, she stood and leaped onto a branch stretching overhead.
"I'm going to look for the thing I couldn't find earlier!"
With that crisp declaration, her figure vanished from the branch, though no one knew which direction she had gone.
Leaving behind a group of Kusagakure Genin staring upward, their mouths twitching.
"Uh..."
After watching Hada Anna leave and withdrawing their gazes, their expressions stiffened again, each of them looking rather bewildered.
That little? What are we supposed to eat?
Then, as they looked at the pot, that thought flashed through everyone's mind at once.
At that moment, in the enormous iron pot before them, the several hundred pounds of meat from a bear-sized beast had been reduced to nothing more than a shallow layer at the bottom. Even for one person, it was barely anything.
It would not even fill a single bowl.
She had clearly finished it all!
How could that count as leaving some behind?
"Are you all full?"
Then, almost unconsciously, the Bearded Man spoke.
The question immediately made everyone look at one another.
"Are you idiots?"
The next second, Hada Long Yan's voice suddenly rang out, drawing everyone's attention away from their exchanged looks.
"You were eating with Anna, yet you could still take your sweet time? Is this your first time eating with Anna?"
What followed was a string of blunt, unceremonious remarks.
"Long Yan, what is that?"
Yet no one cared about his rude words. They merely looked at Hada Long Yan, their brows slowly drawing