Splash!
Chinatsu sank into the warm hot spring. She knew the letter outside was from Hidan and Kakuzu, and she could more or less guess what it said, but nothing in the world took priority over a bath!
I really have to hand it to the people of the Land of Water. How do you manage to live like normal people in a place like this?
Chinatsu closed her eyes and soaked in the hot spring, the fatigue in her body melting away at a visibly rapid pace. With no one else in the bathhouse, she stopped holding back, tilted her head, and let out a moan of pure bliss.
Outside the bathhouse, the white pigeon pecked at the window with a miserable look on its face. It could not fly off freely until it had completed its task, and standing around like this was so boring...
The white pigeon thought, Oh, forget it. It shouldn't take much longer. I'll wait a little more.
Ten minutes passed.
Half an hour passed.
An hour passed...
The white pigeon gave up on standing and lay down on a tiny ledge outside the window. Inside the bathhouse, Chinatsu was still lounging in the hot spring, gulping down a bottle of pure, fresh milk.
"Burp~ That should do it~"
Chinatsu let out a satisfied burp and set her empty milk bottle beside seven or eight other empty bottles, then climbed out of the bath.
She dried herself off, put on fresh clothes, and the spirited, dashing Chinatsu was back!
"That hit the spot. It really did. It'd be even better if I could just flop into bed and sleep after this." Stretching her limbs, Chinatsu walked out of the bathhouse, opened the window with a click, and picked up the messenger pigeon with two