In Konoha: Three Choices at the Start

Next came Konan, Liuyun's eldest disciple. She floated in midair and took full advantage of Mei's inability to fly, bombarding her relentlessly.

Chapter 330: Reuniting with Mei Terumi, and Fanboy Chojuro! (Sixth Update!)

Paper Shuriken, paper Kunai—those were bad enough. The real problem was that Konan could control everything she sent flying and turn it into Explosive Tags!

Mei could only dodge. Whenever she managed to launch an attack, Konan simply evaded it in midair.

Mei couldn't touch Konan, and Konan couldn't defeat Mei. In the end, they had to call it a draw.

After that, Mei narrowly beat Pakura, Miroku, Kurenai, and Yugao.

Then came the last girl, who was only twelve or thirteen.

Good grief. Like Uchiha Mikoto, she summoned a massive Susanoo. It wasn't quite as outrageous as Mikoto's, but it was still enormous.

Between that and the girl's devastating Fire Release techniques, they fought to a standstill for two hours before calling it a draw.

That dealt Mei a real blow. Against Tsunade, Mikoto, Kushina, Konan, and Uchiha Izumi, she had either lost or drawn!

By that reckoning, she wasn't even among the top five. She had only scraped out victories against the others thanks to her greater combat experience.

As Kirigakure's Mist Shadow, how the hell was she supposed to accept that?

Were her husband's women all monsters? How could they be so strong?

She stayed there afterward and soon learned why the women were so powerful.

They trained as though their lives depended on it!

With Kushina, that walking miracle of a healer, around, they spent every moment they could spare training.

Mei still remembered asking Uchiha Mikoto why everyone pushed themselves so hard.

Mikoto had given her a gentle smile, her face full of hope. "Because we don't want to become a burden