Today.
The autumn air was crisp.
The weather was pleasant.
An island nation located where Wave Country was basically had no winter. Winters were warm, summers cool, and the climate remained comfortable all year round.
And such pleasant weather was perfect for taking a stroll outside.
With nothing better to do, Mei Terumi wandered through the city of Wave Country.
She still wore that blue strapless dress, her voluptuous figure fully displayed. Though she was a single young woman of twenty-one, she carried a hint of the charm of a mature married woman. A gentle smile rested on her delicate face as she greeted the workers passing by.
As she watched the workers busily going about their tasks, some paving roads and others renovating houses, she saw that although they were doing hard labor, every one of them wore a heartfelt smile.
She had noticed it as soon as she arrived in Wave Country. Every resident here had anticipation for the future in their eyes, as well as sincere respect for Wave Country's current daimyo, Uzumaki Naruto.
The reason she had become familiar with the workers around her was also due to a chance incident.
When she had first arrived, she had just left the temporary hospital and wanted to gather information about Wave Country. Then, she saw a worker fall from a building. On instinct, she used Water Release to catch him, preventing him from getting hurt.
The matter spread from one person to ten, then from ten to a hundred, until all the workers in the area knew about it. Suddenly being so well regarded in an unfamiliar country left Mei Terumi rather embarrassed.
However, the incident had also caused her a somewhat troublesome problem. Even if she had not acted at the time, someone else would have.