No More Pretending-Senju Jueming Came Clean and Tore Off the Mask

"Where's Mei Terumī?"

Sayuri served the rice and gently set it in front of Jueming.

"She left. She was disrespectful to me."

"An ungrateful wretch?" Sayuri asked, spoon in hand.

"Mm, more or less."

Jueming nodded.

The Slug Sage witnessed the exchange between them.

Afterward, Jueming explained what had happened in Kirigakure to her...

"The Mizukage... was actually being controlled..."

The Slug Sage's antennae twitched repeatedly.

Sayuri was curious. They were actually alive... no, she meant, real antennae.

Dinner passed in a peaceful atmosphere.

Sayuri did not notice Jueming's relationship with the Slug Sage at all...

The Slug Sage also kept her eyes on the food, trying not to reveal anything unusual.

She was still adapting to a human form.

But she understood quite a lot about human emotions.

Even if she had never experienced them herself, a thousand years was enough to witness many things.

So, she had to be especially careful.

She could not expose her relationship with Jueming in front of Senju Sayuri...

Because if she said the wrong thing,

she would end up like Mei Terumī—directly rejected and even snapped at.

"I heard Mei Terumī became the Fifth Mizukage..."

As she cleared away the dishes, Sayuri provided an important piece of information.

But Jueming did not care.

So what?

"The Slug Sage saved Princess Tsunade, and she is a sage who helped Konoha. Mei Terumī was disrespectful and deserved to be reprimanded."

"Mm..."

Sayuri nodded.

If you were asking someone for help, you should act like it.

Mei Terumī had indeed been unreasonable.

It was hard to imagine.

As the Mizukage, was she too young, or had success gone to her head...

Sayuri would never know

that Mei Terumī had simply failed to hold her tongue because of all the resentment and frustration bottled up inside