"Hah!"
Kurotsuchi frowned again, glaring at Temari with unmistakable hostility.
"Sigh..."
Watching the two women quietly compete, Luo Mang gave a soft sigh, somewhat baffled.
He really could not understand why they had to compete so openly here.
They had barely met a few times, had they? Even if their positions were similar, their villages were so far apart.
He had thought he would be the one trying to win them over, and that it would be complicated.
Who could have imagined that Temari and Kurotsuchi would be competing for his affection instead?
Really?
This is actually a little exciting.
Well, it had certainly taken him by surprise.
"All right, all right, stop arguing. Let's look around together first. You're going to be classmates, after all."
Unsure what exactly to say, he could only laugh it off and try to smooth things over.
After his persuasion, the two stopped glaring daggers at one another and stepped apart, though their expressions were very different.
"Hmph."
"Mm."
The difference between the two responses was obvious. Kurotsuchi folded her arms and snorted, while Temari seemed to soften a little in front of the man she loved.
After all, Temari had recognized her own feelings during the Chunin Exams.
But things did not always turn out as she hoped. She had thought she would be sold off or used in some scheme during the exchange.
She had already resigned herself to her fate.
Yet she had never expected to meet the person she truly loved here, the one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
How could she not be excited?
Even if someone else interrupted them, she would treasure this time, because it felt like regaining something she had lost.
Kurotsuchi, on the other hand, seemed rather cold, perhaps angry