"Tsunade, pay attention. I'm not starting a ninja world war out of thin air. War is bound to happen. I just want to control when it happens."
Hyuga Wuye seriously corrected Tsunade.
"A ninja world war is bound to happen..."
"So you're using it to achieve your own goals..."
Tsunade murmured, as if her worldview were collapsing.
She was Hashirama Senju's granddaughter, a true inheritor of the Will of Fire. She had always believed in sacrificing herself for Konoha's sake, so she simply could not accept Hyuga Wuye's values.
Splash!
Tsunade suddenly stood up from the bath and blankly began walking out of the pool.
"Tsunade, what's wrong?"
Hyuga Wuye frowned and reached for her hand, but she abruptly shook him off.
"You... don't touch me yet..."
She draped herself in a black formal robe and stumbled out.
Wuye kept his hand outstretched, then slowly withdrew it, staring blankly at his palm.
After a long while, he shook his head, helplessness appearing at the corner of his mouth. "What a foolish woman."
Hyuga Wuye stood, dried himself with a towel, got dressed, and walked out.
Behind him, Slug's two little feelers tilted sideways. Only then did she realize that she had once again lost all sense of presence.
She curled her feelers and thought for a moment, then hurried after them.
Humans lovers were arguing. I really want to watch...
"Tsunade."
Hyuga Wuye did not have to look for long before he spotted Tsunade's back in the garden behind the palace.
It was late autumn, and the whole world seemed washed in withered yellow. Golden fallen leaves danced everywhere in the wind.
"Tsunade, you don't like what I'm doing?"
Wuye walked to Tsunade's side without touching her on his own accord.
Tsunade's body trembled.
She raised her head and watched