Uchiha Apricot's Hesitation

Saturday, September 17, 2011.

1:43 p.m.

Miyama Town, Fuyuki City, forest on the outskirts.

A vast clearing outside Einzbern Castle served as Uchiha Apricot's usual training ground.

This area had originally been forest as well, but Uchiha Apricot had flattened it into open ground.

Yet the broken trees around it and the scorched earth burned black by fierce flames all bore witness to what Uchiha Apricot had done.

"That's really exaggerated. You should be very strong already, right?"

"Why are you still training so desperately?"

Yanagawa Mami stood in the center of the field, clapping...