"Grandma, I'm off!"
"Tsunade, your breakfast!"
"I took it! I'll be late if I don't hurry!"
Watching her eldest granddaughter's hurried retreating figure, then glancing up at the gray, overcast sky, Senju Taohua could not help but wonder.
What kind of job could make Tsunade, who had always been so lazy, become this diligent?
"Yawn... Morning, Grandma."
Still bleary-eyed, Nawaki stumbled out of his room. After greeting Senju Taohua, he dropped heavily into a seat beside the dining table.
"Has Elder Sister already left?"
"Nawaki, do you know what your sister has been doing these past few days?"
"No idea. I've been training these past few days."
Nawaki listlessly shook his head. A week of training had passed in the blink of an eye, and he did not have much time left.
"I see."
Senju Taohua nodded thoughtfully, then opened the refrigerator to get Nawaki a bottle of nutritious Growth Calcium Milk. The instant she pulled the door open, however, she froze.
The refrigerator compartment, which had been packed full of milk yesterday, was now completely empty.
"Where's the milk?"
Had a thief broken into their home?
Glug, glug, glug!
Elsewhere, Tsunade raced down the street. After tilting back her head and downing an entire bottle of Growth Calcium Milk in one gulp, she raised a hand to wipe away the white liquid at the corner of her mouth, then smacked her lips a few times.
"Tsk, tsk."
Once she got used to it, the taste was not completely unbearable.
"Tsunade!"
Just then, a figure who had been waiting along her usual route for quite some time raised a hand and called out to her.
"Dan, what a coincidence. You take this road too? I remember your house is in the west, isn't it?"
Tsunade blinked in confusion. Her home