Xinyu smiled faintly at his words. "So generous? Then I won't hold back."
With that, she busied herself with the menu. When Ran took it back, he saw that it was filled with all kinds of vegetables, nothing expensive.
When Ran asked about it, Xinyu merely stuck out her tongue. "Girls don't eat much at night. We have to maintain a good figure, so some vegetables are enough."
Ran could not argue with her and could only agree in the end.
The hotpot restaurant was crowded. Ran had deliberately picked a spot near a corner, but it was still quite noisy.
As for Torikaze's private room, Ran knew such a thing existed, but he did not think his relationship with Lord Torikaze was good enough for him to use it.
So he reserved a table downstairs instead. Xinyu did not mind. She came here often and had already grown used to it.
Without this noisy atmosphere, it would feel somewhat lonely instead.
Hotpot was best when it was lively.
"It's so nice. Being able to have hotpot in this freezing weather... If you hadn't come to Konoha, I wouldn't have had the time for this."
Ran smiled faintly. "Then it seems I really came to Konoha at the right time."
"Not only did you save my country, you also made things much easier for yourself."
Xinyu smiled knowingly at Ran. "Exactly. But at your rate of learning, you'll probably leave in three months. Once you leave Konoha, I'll have to return to my usual routine."
Then Xinyu added, "But these three months have made me very happy."
Ran fell silent at that. Three months was neither particularly long nor particularly short.
He had originally thought it would take six months for his abilities to improve.
But he had not expected