Something was definitely wrong here!
Kushina looked at Karn, whose head rested on her thighs, her cheeks faintly flushed with embarrassment. Both her hands were still massaging the pressure points on her boss's head. From the moment she had greeted him and entered the room to now, it seemed that fewer than five minutes had passed, yet things had already turned out like this.
Thinking back carefully, Kushina felt as though she had started following his instructions step by step the moment her boss complained of a headache.
Before she knew it, she had let him lie on her stocking-clad thighs. Now Kushina could clearly feel his hair rubbing against her skin, and she slowly endured the faint prickling itch.
"Boss, I came to buy desserts, like that moving chocolate from last time."
Kushina muttered stubbornly. She didn't want to say she had come to give him a massage. She was supposed to be a customer. The massage was only out of concern for a... friend. She had agreed to do it because she didn't want to see her boss suffering from a headache.
"Buy desserts? Did you bring money, Kushina?"
"Of course. I've completed quite a few high-ranking missions lately. I repaired all of Konoha's barriers."
Kushina grew excited as she talked about this. Some of the ninja in the Barrier Team and Sealing Squad had already started calling her Lady Kushina. Her sealing jutsu was more powerful than even the Sealing Squad captain's, and in the shinobi world, strength determined status.
Even though Kushina was relatively young, ninja in their twenties whose positions were lower than hers still had to call her Lady Kushina.
Kushina took her now-plump Small Orange Wallet out of her ninja tool pouch and showed it off to Karn, but the Small Orange Wallet