At Ninja Kingdom Medical Hospital's special ward floor, Tsunade was under observation.
Her left eye had been treated, the necrotic eyeball removed and covered with bandages.
With her one remaining eye, she gazed at the open collar of her hospital gown, beneath which a special mark was hidden!
—The mark called "Karma," left behind by Ōtsutsuki Cannon Princess before her death.
Regardless of Tsunade's personal wishes, she had formed an inseverable connection with the race in the heavens.
Her two most prized disciples, Shizune and Sakura Haruno, were both attending her bedside.
Shizune was still dressed in plain clothes. She had joined Dark Hidden nineteen years ago and was nearing forty, yet thanks to good care, she still looked to be in her twenties!
Though Shizune was less talented than her junior disciple Sakura, through her own efforts and some auxiliary methods, she had also mastered the Strength of a Hundred Seal, which had not existed in the original work.
Moreover, Shizune had cultivated her mind and nature in peace for many years, and she was expected to master the Silent Sage Art.
Naturally, what outsiders cared about most was Shizune's marriage prospects. After all, she was already considered an older unmarried woman in the Shinobi World.
Yet whenever someone asked, Shizune would jokingly reply, "Marriage? Maybe when I grow my hair long..."
After all these years, she still wore her hair in a neat, capable short cut.
Compared to her senior disciple, Sakura had had a much smoother path. Though she had taken a wrong turn in her early years, after returning to the right path, she advanced by leaps and bounds. Not only had she surpassed Shizune in their professional field and become Tsunade's successor, but... she had also gained the happiness she had long awaited!
Next year,