I Want You to Help Me Cultivate!

The next morning.

Early in the morning.

Kurenai Yuhi hurried out of her home, preparing to leave.

"Kurenai."

Asuma, who had turned into a muscular gorilla, stood at the door holding a bouquet.

Faced with Asuma's greeting.

Kurenai lowered her head, ignored him completely, and walked away.

"Sigh, Kurenai..."

"Stop bothering me!"

Kurenai turned around and glared fiercely at Asuma.

"Until I defeat Senju Jueming, I will never agree to date you!"

"But..."

Asuma looked helpless.

"Even together, the two of us can't beat Senju Jueming..."

Asuma did not understand.

Why was Kurenai Yuhi so obsessed?

Losing in Illusion Technique was certainly humiliating.

But... it should not have become a knot in her heart that lasted four years.

"Forget about me... Asuma."

Kurenai Yuhi left behind those cold words and vanished.

A short while later.

Asuma arrived at an izakaya.

He ordered a drink.

Only to run into Hayate Gekko, who was also drowning his sorrows.

"Hayate, did you fail again?"

"You're the same as always."

Asuma and Hayate Gekko poured out their hearts to each other.

Neither of them could understand it.

Why had they both failed, even though they had both grown up alongside the girls they loved?

"Yugao is already the Anbu Commander, while I..."

Although Hayate Gekko's illness had been cured, he could no longer use Transparency Release.

The distance between them was simply too great now. They no longer belonged to the same world.

Yet Yugao was always checking on him, still caring for him like she had when they were neighbors. That only made Hayate Gekko feel worse.

This feeling of being so close yet so far away, seeing her every day.

Yet being unable to hold her hand, tormented him to death.

"Yugao... where... are you now..."

Unable to hold his liquor,