Inside the lounge of Konoha's East Coast Office in Sea Wave City.
The large conference table in the center was now covered with all sorts of steaming seafood dishes.
Uzumaki Kushina was unceremoniously stuffing a piece of conch meat only half a fist smaller than her own fist into her mouth. A small mountain of empty plates had already piled up in front of her.
A day had passed since the heart-stopping battle on the beach.
Thanks to the Uzumaki Clan's downright monstrous recovery ability and the medicine from the Cosmetic Research Institute, Kushina had regained consciousness the previous evening.
And once she woke up, aside from being ravenously hungry from exhausting her chakra, she was full of energy, without even the slightest lingering effects.
"Kushina, slow down. You might choke," Shizune urged worriedly from across the table, holding a glass of warm fruit juice ready to pass over at any moment.
"It's fine, it's fine, Shizune. Kushina's stomach is a bottomless pit!" Kana sat beside Shizune, cradling a plate of garlic oysters as she ate, her mouth smeared with oil.
She turned to Terumi Mei beside her. "Mei, these oysters are so good! Try some!"
Holding a bowl of seafood porridge, Terumi Mei looked at the oyster Kana offered her and smiled a little helplessly.
"Some seafood porridge is enough for me. Those oysters... you can have more of them," Terumi Mei politely declined. Having grown up in the Land of Water, she was no stranger to seafood, but she still wasn't quite used to Kana's wild way of eating.
"Oh, come on, these are a Sea Wave City specialty! You definitely don't get anything this fresh back in Kirigakure!" Without taking no for an answer, Kana pushed the oyster into Terumi Mei's hand.
"Eat up, eat up! Once