The Ninja Academy's Incredible Legend (Eighty): One Land Breeds One People, and a Heavy Curiosity Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing

Women in the early stages of pregnancy were not really suited to soaking in hot springs, but powerful shinobi possessed constitutions far beyond ordinary people's. Something this minor would not have any effect.

The Land of Hot Water was indeed much warmer than the surrounding countries.

Heavy snow had fallen here as well, but beneath the rising steam of the hot springs, it quickly melted away.

For a country named after "hot water," hot springs were naturally its foremost feature. Its abundance of blooming flowers was merely a byproduct.

Mizuki guessed that the Land of Hot Water was likely situated atop a semi-dormant volcano. The heated springs erupting from underground were one way for the energy of the subterranean lava fields to vent.

During the bitterly cold depths of winter, the Land of Hot Water instead became a haven for people from the surrounding regions to spend the season.

When Mizuki's family arrived in the Land of Hot Water, the sun had only recently set, and the major famous hot spring inns were at their busiest.

The hot spring district in Konoha was also crowded, and Xiaomei had visited it several times, but it was still quite different from the Land of Hot Water.

Moist air mingled with the scent of sulfur drifted out from every spring.

Mizuki deliberately chose a hot spring inn with relatively few guests. Its sole distinguishing feature was that it was expensive—so expensive that ordinary people could hardly accept the price. Even though its springs were indeed among the finest sights in the Land of Hot Water and its service was exceptionally attentive.

Even if business was not particularly good and the inn was likely operating on borrowed money, its owner had never changed strategy. This instead made the inn known as "Yukawa Hot Springs"