Naruto Graduates

Sarah froze for a moment before finally understanding.

To her, several years had already been an agonizingly long wait, but to the man before her... perhaps it truly had been no more than the flick of a finger.

She sighed and consoled herself. Compared to before, at least now... there was something to look forward to, wasn't there?

No sooner had that sense of relief arisen than a thread of curiosity sprouted like a spring bud breaking through the earth.

Sarah raised her eyes and looked at Minamoto Takuya with a gentle gaze. "Husband... would it be convenient for you to tell me how old you are now?"

At her words, Minamoto Takuya's movements paused almost imperceptibly.

As time passed for him, he had never paid attention to it unless it affected the peak of his strength.

Now that she had asked, after calculating carefully, that number... indeed no longer counted as young.

"It's nothing." His voice was low and steady. "If calculated from the year I was born, I am nearly forty. But if that period of traveling back through time is included..."

He paused slightly, then said frankly, "I am indeed past fifty."

"Hm?" Sarah blinked, calculating quickly in her heart. A trace of surprise soon appeared on her lovely face. "So Husband was only born a few years before me?"

"Oh?" Minamoto Takuya raised a brow, asking with mild interest, "What age did you think I was?"

Sarah pressed her lips together and smiled, offering no answer. There was a hint of girlish mischief hidden in that smile.

Minamoto Takuya did not press the matter. Shifting the subject, he voiced a decision he had considered for a long time. "Next, I need to leave for a while."

"Hm?" Sarah's smile froze at the corners of her lips,