Stepping into the Year of the Kannabi Bridge Battle!

More than an hour later, at Kakashi's house.

"Hm? What are you doing?"

Chiba, carrying dishes out from the kitchen, looked at Hirohiko and the other two gathered around one corner of the low table. He walked up behind them, leaned forward, and asked.

"Oh, we're discussing how to rebuild our little cabin. Since we have to build it again anyway, we might as well make it better. The old one was rather old and shabby, no matter how you looked at it, and it wasn't very spacious either. Four people living together was a little cramped."

Hearing Chiba, Hirohiko, who had recognized him by his footsteps long ago, did not even look up as he answered.

In Hirohiko's hands was a half-finished structural blueprint, while Yukina held several rolled-up scrolls beside him. It seemed they had already come up with quite a few ideas.

"Oh..."

After hearing Hirohiko's answer, Chiba glanced at the rather complicated-looking blueprint and responded. Then he walked away to set the dishes down at one corner of the long table. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Do we have enough money?"

"Uh..."

The moment those words came out, Hirohiko and Nao, the young couple who had been enthusiastically drawing and advising each other, immediately stiffened. The hope on their faces abruptly tightened, and the corners of their mouths twitched.

That was right!

They could make it bigger, more spacious, and prettier, but... all of that cost money! Even if they built it themselves, materials still cost money. The house could be made of wood, and they could gather lumber from the forest, but some things could not be obtained locally!

A wooden house was not made entirely of wood!

They...

Seemed to be short on money! At that moment, Hirohiko and Nao despairingly discovered