The women's bath.
Yugito Nii looked at the very, very well-endowed older women around her, envy showing in her eyes.
"I wonder when I'll grow up too..."
Muttering quietly, she submerged her nose and mouth, leaving only her eyes above water to observe in secret.
Her dream was a fine one, but it would probably never come true in this lifetime.
Even after little Yugito Nii passed through puberty and became a fully grown Yugito Nii, her peaks would only be average.
Compared with the other Kumogakure kunoichi, she would truly pale in comparison.
Just as the two of them were relaxing in their respective hot springs, a piercing scream shattered the silence.
"Someone's dead!!!"
Yūto immediately opened the eyes he had closed in relaxation, wrapped himself in a bath towel, and leaped out of the hot spring.
When he reached the lobby, he was far from alone. Almost every customer soaking in the hot springs had run out.
Fear was written all over their faces, and they looked deeply uneasy.
But from their conversations, Yūto could tell this was not the first time something like this had happened.
"Another death. What a mess."
"We really can't stay in Yugakure anymore. At this rate, something might happen to our families one day."
"But where could we go if we moved? The Five Great Nations are all at war right now..."
Not long after the men ran out of their bath, all the older women from the women's bath came running out screaming too.
Their expressions were even more terrified.
But the men's conversations had all stopped, because their attention had shifted elsewhere.
To those marvelous paired organs that succumbed to gravity and sagged farther with age, for instance.
The voluptuous woman at the front tried in vain to cover