Over the course of several weeks, Tianyi took Kaguya toward Konoha without using any space-time transportation techniques, traveling step by step instead.
They followed the newly built roads of the Land of Fire eastward, passing villages, towns, farmland, and newly established markets, crossing regions that had once been ravaged by war and were now being rebuilt.
Tianyi did not hurry them along or urge her onward. He simply let Kaguya experience more ordinary things along the way. After all, she had stood too high above the world for too long—so long that she had forgotten certain things.
Their pace was unhurried, and they lingered over everything they saw. Even though she was the progenitor of chakra, she was still a woman. She would stop before roadside general stores and stare at the lipsticks displayed behind glass counters for a long while.
Then she would ask Tianyi what the differences between the colors were. She would enter small perfume shops, pick up the scent strips one by one to smell them, then choose a bottle from the counter.
She would stop before the window of a tailor shop, looking at a long coat hanging there. Her gaze would rest on the lines of its cut for a moment before she spoke to Tianyi.
"Comrade Tianyi, I want this."
After Tianyi paid for it, she wore the coat, its hem swaying faintly with her steps.
She would also crouch before stalls selling handmade bags, examining each bag in its different colors and sizes. In the end, she chose a dark handbag and hooked it over her arm, never setting it down again.
As she walked down the road with her icy aura, passersby would stop and cast curious glances her way.
Kaguya merely ignored them, focusing more of her attention on the