[Try Moving and See What Happens!]

After finishing the details, Hyuga Bin, Uchiha Obito, and Nohara Rin began searching separately for the lost orange cat, using the spot where it had gone missing as their center.

Nohara Rin took the bustling market area, Uchiha Obito handled the residential zone, and Hyuga Bin was responsible for the izakaya, the gambling dens, and the red-light district that didn't open until night.

Just a few minutes into the mission, Hyuga Bin ran into Lord Tsunade stumbling out of an izakaya, her face flushed red from drinking.

Drunk first thing in the morning—Tsunade's life in Konoha was dull, monotonous, and... degenerate.

Hyuga Bin didn't pretend not to see her. Instead, he chose to greet her.

Thanks to some ridiculous incidents a few years back, he and Tsunade had become something like "acquaintances."

Of course, Hyuga Bin always kept a safe distance from Tsunade.

After all, while Tsunade's body might be soft, her fists were hard.

One wrong move, and he wouldn't know whether tomorrow or an accident would come first!

Hyuga Bin stopped three meters away from Tsunade to greet her, and while doing so, he asked about the mission: "Lord Tsunade, have you seen a very fat orange cat?"

"No." Tsunade shook her head, her eyes hazy with drink.

"Alright, thank you, Lord Tsunade." Hyuga Bin finished speaking and planned to leave, avoiding any further entanglement with her.

After all, the first time she'd accidentally injured him was when she was drunk.

Drunk Tsunade was terrifying on a whole other level.

As for the option task he'd taken on a few years ago, he'd already given up on it and was ready to accept failure.

He wasn't the Asura Reincarnation—how could he possibly untie Tsunade's heart knot with just his words, get her to move past her psychological trauma, and start a new life?

"Kid, do you have some kind of agenda with me?" Maybe because she was drunk, Tsunade stared at Hyuga Bin's back and finally voiced the question she'd always wanted to ask.

In the few years she'd known and interacted with Hyuga Bin, she'd felt quite comfortable. She didn't have to deliberately hide her emotions.

Some of the things Hyuga Bin occasionally said made her feel like he wasn't a little kid, but someone her own age.

But all of this was too coincidental, and combined with her identity and current situation, she couldn't help but suspect that Hyuga Bin was a tool the Hyuga Clan was using to win her over.

Still, deep down, she wanted to believe in another possibility, which was why she'd never said this to Hyuga Bin before.

"I don't." Hyuga Bin stopped and spoke seriously to Tsunade: "And Lord Tsunade, my name is Hyuga Bin."

He felt Tsunade still needed to improve in terms of respecting him—calling him "kid" every time she got drunk was really too much.

Of course, he did have an agenda with Tsunade, but it wasn't the kind she was thinking of, so there was no reason to admit it.

Besides, Tsunade couldn't be his tool for grinding tasks anymore, so he didn't need to go out of his way to please her.

Well... even if she could be a tool, he still wouldn't deliberately suck up to her, because that wasn't his nindo.

He'd transmigrated and gotten a system—he didn't want to live as someone he despised.

"Alright, Bin-kun, then why do I keep running into you?" Tsunade walked step by step closer to Hyuga Bin.

There were people she'd known for over twenty years that she saw less often than she randomly bumped into Hyuga Bin. That was hard to explain.

"How would I know?" Hyuga Bin quickly backed off, putting another meter of safe distance between them.

Aside from the first year, when he'd deliberately approached Tsunade to grind tasks, he'd stayed far away for his own safety afterward. Yet he still kept running into her—there was nothing he could do about it.

"Fine, let's leave it at that." Seeing that Hyuga Bin didn't look like he was lying, Tsunade waved her hand and stopped pressing.

"Lord Tsunade, if you don't want to see me, you could go on a trip and relax. There's no need to stay in the village all day." Hyuga Bin gave Tsunade a suggestion.

"Yeah, I'm about to leave the village." As soon as Tsunade said it, she realized she probably shouldn't have told Hyuga Bin that. She sighed helplessly: "I let that slip. Just pretend you didn't hear it."

"Lord Tsunade, what did you just say? I was thinking about something and didn't hear a thing." Hyuga Bin played along, pretending to be confused.

"Heh heh..."

Tsunade was amused by Hyuga Bin's over-the-top acting.

"Too bad you're a ninja of the Hyuga Clan. You don't have Yang-attribute chakra."

"Actually, Lord Tsunade, I do."

Hyuga Bin understood that Tsunade was hinting at teaching him Medical Ninjutsu.

And to learn advanced Medical Ninjutsu, you had to have Yang-attribute chakra.

He was willing to do that.

If Tsunade wanted to take him out of the village... that wasn't out of the question either.

Compared to going to the battlefield, as long as he didn't hit Tsunade's sore spots, staying by her side was still safe enough. He could spend a few more years outside doing option tasks and only return to the village once he could fully protect himself.

"Huh... you do?"

The drunken haze on Tsunade's face instantly turned to shock.

After all, the Hyuga Clan, with their Byakugan, mostly had Yin-attribute chakra. Those with Yang-attribute were extremely rare, which was why she'd deliberately said that.

Three parts sincerity, seven parts a joke.

Of course, Tsunade had no idea that in the few years Hyuga Bin had been signing in, he'd occasionally gotten random basic attribute point rewards like Yang Attribute +0.1 or Yin Attribute +0.1.

So now, Hyuga Bin could "barely" be considered an all-attribute ninja.

This put Tsunade in an awkward position.

And under Tsunade's dilemma, Hyuga Bin once again received an option task from the system.

[Option A: Say to Tsunade: "Please, Lord Tsunade, take me as your disciple." Completion reward: Mystical Palm Technique (A-rank reward).]

[Option B: Ask Tsunade: "Lord Tsunade, do you want to take me as your disciple?" Completion reward: Chakra Scalpel (B-rank reward).]

[Option C: Say to Tsunade: "I don't want to become your disciple." Completion reward: Random Attribute Points +0.1 (C-rank reward).]

"Lord Tsunade, I don't want to become your disciple." Hyuga Bin said, having freeloaded +0.1 speed, then continued joking with Tsunade:

"But if you really want it, Lord Tsunade, I can reluctantly play along and call you that once."

"You make it sound like you're the one losing out," Tsunade said, not disliking Hyuga Bin's teasing.

"Lord Tsunade, I still have a mission to carry out. I'll stop chatting with you for today."

With that, Hyuga Bin took a small, beautifully wrapped box from his ninja tool bag and handed it to Tsunade: "Lord Tsunade, this is for you."

"What is it?" Tsunade asked with a smile.

"A small cake." Seeing that Tsunade didn't reach out, Hyuga Bin had to place the small box by her hand.

Tsunade took the small box, a hint of doubt in her voice: "Why are you giving me a small cake?"

"No reason. I just remembered I had a small cake in my bag, so I gave it to you."

"Alright, I'm off."

With that, Hyuga Bin took two steps back, waved at Tsunade with a smile, then turned and left.

Tsunade looked at the small cake in her hand, then at Hyuga Bin's retreating back.

A strange feeling stirred within her.

It seemed... it had been a long time since she'd met someone like this.

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