Because the event had ended, more and more familiar figures walked into Mixue Bingcheng. After all, who wouldn't want to gulp down a fresh cup of Triple Sugar Lemonade in the scorching heat of summer?
"Gin-grandpa, long time no see."
Dan Katō still had that gentle, refined look of a modest young gentleman, with a little black-haired girl trailing behind him, pinching the hem of his clothes as she stared straight at the piles of Sweet Drinks on the table with big, watery eyes.
"Little Shizune, come to big sister."
Senju Itama, with Yuhi Kurenai tucked under her left arm and Rin Nohara in her right, narrowed her eyes and waved at the shy little girl with a lecherous grin plastered across her face.
She was the type who couldn't walk away once she saw something cute. Otherwise, she wouldn't go next door every time she went shopping to bring along Yuhi Kurenai, who looked like a porcelain doll.
"Hello, Itama-sister."
Shizune hesitated for a moment, then, encouraged by her uncle's gaze, stepped forward and sat in Senju Itama's lap, obediently lowering her little head.
"Hehehe, I have no regrets in my life~"
Surrounded by little girls, Senju Itama rubbed left and touched right, immersed in their adorable aura and unable to free herself. If not for the fact that she was a woman, the diners around them would already have called the Konoha Police Force and had this pervert brought to justice.
To show a clean break, Uchiha Gin subconsciously shifted his butt, putting some distance between himself and Senju Itama. Then he looked at Dan Katō, who wore a bitter smile.
"Where's Duy? On such a lively day, why don't I see him?"
His relationship with Hatake Sakumo and Might Duy was the same as the Three Ninja's—they