Little Bug, Katsuyu

Tsunade twisted open the bottle cap, tipped back her head, and gulped down the milk.

Her snow-white throat moved, followed by the rise and fall of those enormous mountains.

Uchiha Kurohane had never expected that Tsunade merely drinking milk could be such a breathtaking sight.

If he fed her milk in the future, he truly did not dare imagine what that scene would look like.

Tsunade drained the milk in one gulp, bought pancakes with Uchiha Kurohane at a pancake shop, then took him to her home.

Tsunade's home was similar to Mito's, both being standalone old houses on the outskirts of Konoha.

In fact, the two houses were very close to each other.

However, Tsunade's house was outside the barrier protecting Uzumaki Mito, so there was still some distance between them.

Yet behind both houses lay the same forest.

While eating pancakes, Tsunade and Uchiha Kurohane arrived at an open clearing beyond the forest. She explained why she had suddenly decided to teach him ninjutsu and why she was in such a rush to test him that afternoon.

It turned out that when Tsunade and Jiraiya drank together last night, they had decided to bet on their students.

They would compete to see whose disciple could summon the larger summoned beast.

Summoning a beast required talent in Space–Time Ninjutsu, and summoning a larger beast required more chakra.

Combined with having to learn it within a single day,

it would test every aspect of a ninja's abilities.

Tsunade planted her hands on her hips and thrust out her full chest.

"This concerns who has the better eye for students. Jiraiya and I made a bet, so don't lose and embarrass me."

Since Namikaze Minato did not have much chakra while Uchiha Kurohane possessed enormous reserves, he had originally believed victory