A Good Son-in-Law! So Considerate!

"Brat! Good thing I wasn't sleeping too deeply!"

Hyuga Hiashi hurriedly threw on his clothes and shoes, ready to rush out and take a look.

Since the situation had become extremely awkward, Room 205 was very quiet.

Even though Hyuga Hiashi's movements were slight, Kanami immediately noticed them.

Kanami's pupils instantly widened.

If Hyuga Hiashi saw that swimsuit again, he feared he would suffer their Byakugan glares for the rest of his life.

Just as Kanami was wondering what to do, Hinata asked with a flushed face:

"Is this for me...?"

"Yes."

In her panic, Kanami could no longer think and instinctively admitted it.

He immediately regretted it.

He could already imagine Elephant Hinata rising indignantly, flinging the swimsuit into his face, and cursing, "Hentai!"

The next second, Hinata stood up just as he had expected.

Kanami hurriedly shut her eyes.

However, the scene he had imagined did not happen.

Hinata blushed and said shyly, "Thank you... This is the first time I've received a swimsuit like this..."

Hearing her words, Kanami cracked open her eyes and saw that Hinata was not angry.

He asked timidly, "Why aren't you angry?"

Hinata shook her head and smiled softly. "Anything Kanami gives me, I'll treasure."

A warm rush nearly spilled from Kanami's eyes.

"Hinata!"

Just as he was about to hug Hinata, she blushed and quickly dodged aside.

She said in a soft voice, "But... I'll never wear it!"

Knock, knock, knock!

A rapid knock sounded at the door.

It was accompanied by Hyuga Hiashi's low shout: "Kanami, Hinata, don't do anything improper!"

Father?!

Hinata's pretty face went pale in shock. "Why is Father here? What do we do?"

Kanami was even more flustered than B. It was the middle of the night, they were alone in the same room, and she was holding such a strange swimsuit.

They had to hide that thing first!

His mind raced, and suddenly, his eyes lit up.

I've got it!

Outside the door, Hyuga Hiashi suddenly remembered: Why not just use my Byakugan?

"I really am getting senile."

He slapped himself hard across the face and activated his Byakugan.

After seeing the scene inside Room 205, Hyuga Hiashi's eyes widened.

"They actually—"

"They're actually cultivating???"

What appeared before his Byakugan was Kanami and Hinata sitting upright on the bed, looking as though they were meditating and cultivating.

Impossible. Zetsu-ly impossible. There must be something wrong with my Byakugan.

Seeing such a scene actually made him somewhat angry.

My beautiful and adorable precious daughter is right beside you, and you're cultivating?

Hyuga Hiashi raised his palm, condensed chakra, and thrust it forward through the air.

Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, Mini Version.

With the Byakugan and his control over chakra, a two-millimeter chakra pellet precisely struck and snapped the wooden bolt that had been inserted backward.

Creak—

The door to Room 205 was pushed open.

Upon hearing the sound, Hinata's heartbeat quickened, and her brows twitched slightly.

Kanami hurriedly opened her eyes.

He looked at Hyuga Hiashi with a bewildered expression.

"Uncle, why are you still awake?"

Hinata knew it was time for her performance.

She put on a dazed expression, as though she had cultivated for a long time and had a slight headache.

"Father? Why are you here?"

Why am I here? You're turning the tables on me now?

Hyuga Hiashi shot Kanami a fierce glare.

Kanami furrowed her brows slightly and put on an even more bewildered, puzzled expression.

Hyuga Hiashi's face darkened.

"What were you doing just now? You didn't even hear the knocking."

Kanami replied calmly:

"We were thinking that there's still the third exam, so we practiced a little tonight. We got too absorbed in our cultivation and didn't hear Uncle knocking."

Hinata hurriedly nodded in agreement. "That's right, Father."

Hyuga Hiashi looked at Hinata with a dark expression.

Her expression was unnatural, and Hyuga Hiashi easily saw through the fact that Kanami had coached her.

Feeling her father's gaze, the somewhat frightened Hinata lowered her head slightly and peeked at him from beneath her lashes.

"It's getting late. Go to sleep early."

Hyuga Hiashi did not question them further. If he really found something out, his heart would not be able to take it.

Hinata nodded and said to Kanami:

"Good night."

"Alright, good night."

Hinata slowly walked past Hyuga Hiashi and returned to Room 206.

After seeing his daughter return to her room, Hyuga Hiashi gave Kanami a deep look before leaving as well.

After he was gone, Kanami let out a long breath and lay down on the bed.

He glanced at the sealing scroll beside him.

"Good thing I bought three scrolls earlier."

That striped, lace-up swimsuit was now lying inside the sealing scroll.

In that critical instant earlier, his mind had raced, and he had thought of the safest method. Shuriken and kunai could be sealed inside scrolls, so clothes should work too.

Before long, Kanami and Hinata drifted into dreams.

Meanwhile, in Room 204, Hyuga Hiashi lay on his bed with bloodshot eyes, listening closely to every sound next door.

It seemed he would not be sleeping tonight.

Afterward, Kanami and the other two spent several more days having fun in the Land of Hot Water before preparing to return to Konoha.

When the three had come, Kanami had only prepared snacks, so during the latter half of the journey, they had relied on Military Ration Pills to stave off hunger. However, they tasted truly awful and were rock-hard.

For the journey back, they understood the importance of stockpiling supplies.

"Dried fruit... ready-made meals... potato chips... juice..."

With a pale blue butterfly hairclip in her hair, Hinata packed items into her bag while murmuring to herself.

The three of them moved through the various shops in the Land of Hot Water.

Hinata and Kanami were responsible for picking food and stuffing it into their backpacks, while Hyuga Hiashi was responsible for paying.

"Buy whatever you want. Having money feels so good!"

Kanami sighed inwardly.

"Father."

Hearing Hinata call him, Hyuga Hiashi understood that it was time for him to hand over some gold with an Explosion.

Explosion!

For his daughter, what did a little Explosion of gold matter?

He walked up to the shopkeeper and pointed at the pile of goods that stood half a person tall.

"How much for all of this?"

The shopkeeper chuckled. "Thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-eight ryo. I'll round it down for you—thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty will do."

Hyuga Hiashi was deeply disdainful.

"Do I care about those eight ryo? This is simply an insult to me!"

When he reached for his wallet, he paused.

When had the bulging wallet he brought with him become so deflated?

When he saw that only one thousand ryo remained inside his wallet—

His face instantly turned as pale as paper, and he froze where he stood.

Even if the shopkeeper rounded it down again to one thousand three hundred seventy-five ryo, he would still be short by three hundred seventy-five ryo.

If this were Konoha, he could buy on credit, but this was the Land of Hot Water. Who would give a stranger credit?

Fortunately, Kanami noticed the awkwardness written all over Hyuga Hiashi's face.

Then he saw the deflated wallet in Hyuga Hiashi's hand and immediately understood.

"Uncle, you took the wrong wallet. That one's mine."

Kanami stepped forward and swapped his wallet with Hyuga Hiashi's.

Hyuga Hiashi was briefly stunned, then quickly caught on.

A good son-in-law! So considerate!

He gave Kanami an appreciative look.

Then he opened the wallet.

His expression instantly shifted from appreciation to shock.

So much money?!

He forcefully suppressed his shock and paid first.

Once they had moved away from the shop, Hyuga Hiashi could no longer hold back. He flung Kanami's wallet at him.

He demanded resentfully, "You brat, you had this much money all along?"

"How could I travel abroad without bringing money? Was I supposed to take Hinata on a poverty trip?"

"Then why didn't you say so?"

"You never asked. You rushed to pay every time, so I thought you really enjoyed the thrill of paying."

Hyuga Hiashi recalled how he had rushed to pay for the hot springs, and how he had rushed to rent three rooms when booking their lodging...

"Was I the one rushing to be a complete sucker???"

At once, he deflated like a punctured balloon, his face seeming to age several years.