"Necklace...?!"
Tsunade froze for a moment before reacting.
Her still immature cheeks were filled with extreme fury.
"Come back here!!!"
Tsunade leaped down, leaving Senju Nawaki standing there with a bewildered look on his face.
The next day.
Senju Nawaki died.
While heading to the battlefield on a supply transport mission, he stumbled into an Explosive Tag trap, and his body was blown beyond recognition.
"So it still happened..."
Hyuga Sho murmured while holding the necklace in his hand.
The power of the Box of Paradise.
Or rather, the force of attraction in Tsunade's heart.
It had still caused Senju Nawaki's death to happen.
Next.
Without the necklace.
Tsunade still met Dan Katō, because the necklace was not the plot item that had brought the two of them together.
After that, everything proceeded just as it had in the first cycle, with no difference.
Dan Katō also died in the second cycle.
A new cycle... the "third cycle" began.
This time.
Hyuga Sho made another choice.
First, he took Tsunade's necklace.
Then, he knocked Senju Nawaki unconscious.
The day after his birthday passed, and Senju Nawaki did not die.
Because he had been tied up tightly and hidden in a trash can by Hyuga Sho.
However.
On the third day.
Senju Nawaki still died.
It was as if some invisible inertia was driving Senju Nawaki toward death.
And the result was obvious: Dan Katō died as well.
"There's something of Yūhi Kurenai about this..."
During the fourth cycle.
Hyuga Sho couldn't help but think of the days at the Ninja Academy, when Yūhi Kurenai had cast Genjutsu on him to train his resistance to Genjutsu.
During those training sessions.
Hyuga Sho had tried every possible method to survive beneath nuclear missiles.
Of course.
In the end, he