Compensation

A few days later, the fairly renowned Four Seasons Flower Shop in Konoha hired a new clerk.

Ever since Sakura and Karin had become too busy to help out, most of the work here had fallen to Tsubaki alone. She had to look after little Miyuki, keep the shop running, and could not neglect her ninja missions either. It was truly exhausting. Fortunately, Tsubaki had a corporeal clone to help her, and Mizuki also shared some of the burden whenever he had time.

As time passed, Mizuki's various research projects began to bear fruit, and the help money could provide toward improving his strength grew smaller and smaller.

It was not that he wanted to give up. A normal ninja family had considerable expenses as well, and having more money was never a bad thing.

If this place had not once carried so many of Mizuki's hopes, and if it were not a career Tsubaki especially loved, it truly would not have been worth putting so much thought into.

After everything that had happened, the Four Seasons Flower Shop was more like a place of merit that had rendered tremendous service to Mizuki's growth in strength. Though it no longer held the importance it once had, Mizuki still wanted to keep it going.

He wanted to arrange for a girl about whom there was previously little information to be found, with no substantial evidence proving whether she was truly harmless or a spy planted by some ill-intentioned force.

This gave Mizuki quite a headache as well.

Tsunade was naturally troubled by Mizuki's unreasonable request. If it had been anyone else, she could have simply brushed it aside. But someone Mizuki personally vouched for was clearly no ordinary matter, which showed that these two people possessed unusual value.

"This girl named