Calculating Against Tsunade, One Step Closer to the Truth

"Miss, did you offend members of the Sarutobi Police Force? They've asked about you several times lately!"

The old woman looked at Tsunade, her tone somewhat grave. As she spoke, she cautiously glanced around, checking whether anyone was nearby.

After confirming that no one was around, she looked back at Tsunade with a trace of sympathy in her eyes.

"They were asking about me?" Tsunade paused mid-bite, looking at the old woman in surprise.

She knew someone had been watching her, but... asking people she had spoken with for information about her? What was Sarutobi Hiruzen trying to do?

Tsunade was somewhat bewildered.

It was as if she had no idea what those people wanted, as though her arrival had caused them to panic.

Still, she had barely gone out these past few days. Ever since losing to Hua Yu, she had practically given up on herself. Though rather than giving up, it would be more accurate to say that she had faced reality.

Back then... her grandfather's choice had been wrong. He had wanted the clans and commoners to coexist peacefully, without distinctions of rank or status, but ideals were ideals, and reality was reality.

When he had still been alive, he could suppress all dissent through sheer strength. Even if the other clans were dissatisfied, they would keep it buried in their hearts. But now... after his death, everything had returned to how it used to be.

Clans were clans, and commoners were commoners!

So now, she intended to gather the Senju Clan members once more and rebuild the clan. Only then would the Senju people no longer suffer so much.

Originally, she had wanted to entrust this task to Hua Yu. After all, Hua Yu's talent and abilities far surpassed her own. But Hua Yu's ambitions did