When the time came to the evening, the trio who had had dinner took Sakuraku and Aino to one of the most famous hot springs in Konoha.

"Whew~~~"

Ai Yechang, who was paralyzed in the hot spring, exhaled, and said happily with a red face: "I really still like this kind of primitive world, the hot springs are all original, unlike the technology world, most of them are synthetic." ”

If it weren't for his current state and not breathing, he might die, and Ai Ye would probably bury his head in the hot springs.

Sakura glanced at Ai Ye and said, "Sakura will come in immediately, be careful." ”

"Don't worry~I have a number~~"

'What do you count, you ......'

Sakura sighed helplessly after arranging Ai Ye in her heart, and adjusted her posture to make herself more comfortable.

"Master, how is this hot spring?"

Sakura opened the door to the changing room and walked in wrapped in a bath towel.

"Nice~~~"

Ai Ye, who had already begun to slime, collapsed in the hot spring and responded to Sakura, "I'm satisfied, I'll come back often in the future." ”

"From then on, I'll come with Master~~"

Sakura got the affirmation of her cheap master, smiled happily, and asked Sakuraku, who was also soaking in the hot spring but more like a normal person, while entering the hot spring, "Sister Sakurara, how do you feel?" ”

"Not bad."

Sakura smiled and said to Sakura, "Sakura-chan, do you come here often?" ”

"Not very often."

Sakura tucked her wet hair behind her ears, "I'll only wash it after the mission is over, usually...... I don't really like to move. ”

"I thought you were just like those two guys, both cultivators."

Sakura was idle, and after ignoring the unknown creature that had completely turned into a slime, she chatted with Sakura.

"By the way, Sakura-chan, why do you want to be a ninja?"

Sakuraku asked a little curiously, "You know, being a ninja is easy to encounter all kinds of accidents. ”

"Mom and Dad told me to do it."

Sakura reminisced as she said, "And I'm also interested in ninjas myself, and I think they're very powerful and omnipotent. ”

Hearing this, Sakuraku smiled slightly, "What now?" ”

"Now......"

Sakura subconsciously remembered the unreliable Kakashi and the stupid-looking Naruto, and laughed awkwardly and said, "That's it." ”

"Then again, why does Sakurara-sa want to be a ninja?"

"I'm ......"

Sakuraku, who was watched by Sakura with curious eyes, thought about the past for a while, shook it slightly, and said, "It's a long story." ”

"Tell me~~~"

Sakura-chan, who feels that Sakura has a big story to dig up, has a glint in her eyes called gossip.

"It's not that I don't say ......"

Sakura smiled bitterly and said to Sakura, "It's really long, let's talk about it when I have a chance." ”

"That's fine......"

Seeing that Sakura refused to say, Sakura was embarrassed to continue to ask, but after all, she was a child, so she immediately put the topic behind her, and continued to ask Sakurara: "Sister Sakura, Sister Sakura, how old are you this year?" ”

"How old?"

Sakura was stunned by Sakura's question, this ...... To be precise, I should be 5,348 years old this year, but even if I think about it with my elbows, I know that it is impossible for anyone in this world to live so long......

"I'm probably ...... this year About twenty-four years old. ”

Sakuraku replied with an embarrassed smile.

“…… Probably? ”

"Well, that's ......"

Sakuraki thought for a while and said to Sakura: "Ai Ye and I are both abandoned, and our master doesn't have a habit of celebrating our birthdays, so we both count the ages ourselves, and I'm not sure how old they are." ”

"Hey! Are Sakurakuraku and Master abandoned? ”

"Huh?"

Sakura looked at Sakura, who was taken aback, and asked, "Didn't I mention this to you?" ”

"No...... First time I heard about it. ”

Sakura looked at Sakura and asked a little sadly, "Sister Sakura, you and Master have had a hard time in the past few years." ”

"It's okay......"

Sakuraku pursed her lips and smiled, "It's good to get used to it." ”

Speaking of this, Sakuraku turned her head and glanced at the slime version of Ai Ye who was already asleep.

"Do you have any objects of worship or longing for seniors or anything like that?"

Sakuraku didn't want to continue on this kind of topic, because talking too much might reveal the stuffing.

"Yes!"

When Sakura heard this, she excitedly said to Sakura, "Sister Sakuraro, do you know Tsunade-sama?" ”

“…… Haven't heard of it. ”

"Oh, yes ...... too"

Sakura looked at Sakura's somewhat helpless expression, smiled awkwardly and said, "I forgot that Sakuraku, sister, you are a recluse." ”

"It doesn't matter if you're a recluse or something."

Sakuraku stretched out her right hand and took out two bottles of cold drinks in her personal space, threw one of them to Sakura-chan and said, "Tell me about that Tsunade." ”

"Oh, good ......"

Sakura took the iced drink that Sakura threw her, opened it and took a sip before saying, "Tsunade-sama is one of the three ninjas of Konoha and one of the strongest female ninjas in the entire ninja world!" ”

“…… Can the strongest and one be used together? ”

"Oh, can't you?"

After looking at Sakura-chan's somewhat cute expression, the speechless Sakura shook her head and said, "Forget it, it's okay, you continue." ”

Sakura noticed Sakuraku's speechless expression, scratched her head in embarrassment, and continued, "Tsunade-sama is an extremely powerful female ninja and a medical ninja with extremely skilled medical ninjutsu. ”

Speaking of this, Sakura glanced at Ai Ye, "It's similar to Master, or even stronger!" ”

"Oh~~~"

Sakuraku said with an interested expression when she heard this, "That Tsunade has a medical treatment that can be compared to Aino?" ”

"It should be......"

Sakura scratched her head and said, "I haven't met Tsunade-sama, and the things I just said are all textbooks." ”

"Haven't you seen it?"

Hearing this, Sakuraku asked curiously, "She's not in Konoha?" ”

"Tsunade-sama isn't in Konoha."

Sakura said while recalling something, "It seems that Tsunade-sama didn't stay in Konoha because of something. ”

"That's a pity......"

Sakuraku shook her head in disappointment when she heard this, she wanted to see what kind of skills this woman named Tsunade had.

"So this female ninja named Tsunade is the reason why you studied medicine with Ai Ye?"

In order to continue the conversation, Sakuraku took the initiative to speak.

"Well, that's just one of the reasons."

Sakura thought for a moment and then said with some hesitation: "Sakurara-san, you know, I'm not as talented as Sasuke, I thought I would at least be better than Naruto, but ......"

Speaking of this, Sakura suddenly pursed her lips and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Sakura sighed slightly, of course she knew what Sakura wanted to say, in fact, to be honest, Sakura's talent as a child was average, although Ai Ye said that she was excellent in terms of spiritual power, but it was a pity that there was no spiritual power cultivation system in this world, and Ai Ye's unique enchantment moves could not be taught so simply.

But the word strong is not limited to the aspect of strength, Sakuraki understands this truth better than anyone else, so he ......

"Sakura-chan, what do you define by the word strong?"

Sakura-chan, who was suddenly asked by Sakura, was stunned for a moment, and then frowned and said, "That's it...... Powerful. ”

When Sakura Luo heard this, she smiled slightly, it seemed that this time she was going to be a spiritual mentor, "Then do you think the doctors in the hospital are strong?" ”

Sakura shook her head when she heard this, she didn't know what Sakuraku wanted to say now.

"Strong strength does not mean 'strong', and weak strength does not mean 'weak'."

Sakura took a sip of her drink, looked at Sakura, who began to think, and continued: "The doctors in the hospital are naturally not as powerful as those ninjas, but they are one of the indispensable professions in this world, you know, not all medical ninjas are as powerful as Tsunade, but can you say that those people are not strong?" ”

“…… No. ”

Looking at Sakura-chan who was pursing her mouth, Sakura smiled, pointed at Ai Ye and said, "Take me and Ai Ye as an analogy, in terms of combat effectiveness alone, Ai Ye is not as good as me, but in other aspects, I am not as good as her." ”

Speaking of this, Sakuraku spread her hands, "What I want to say is actually very simple, you don't need to compete with Naruto and Sasuke at all, everyone has something that everyone is good at, it's like you can learn Aino's medical ninjutsu, but the two of them can't, the two of them can follow me for high-intensity physical training, but you can't." ”

“…… I know, but I'm still afraid of holding them both back. ”

Sakura hugged her legs and said with some frustration, "I'm afraid that they will pull me farther and farther away." ”

"Although saying that might be a bit of a blow to your confidence."

Sakuraku sighed slightly and said, "But I once said to Ai Ye's master that this world is not fair, and everyone's lower limit may be the same, but the upper limit is not the same. ”

"Effort is necessary, but at the same time it only allows you to reach the upper limit of what you can achieve, which is called the limit."

"Not everyone is the protagonist of a novel, and they can explode in a fit of anger."

Speaking of this, Sakura looked at Sakura, who was even more depressed, and shook her head a little helplessly: "I don't mean anything else by telling you, but I want you not to think about what you have and don't, what you need to do is actually very simple." ”

When Sakura heard this, she raised her head and looked at Sakuraku.

"Try as hard as you can."

Sakura smiled and said: "Because no one knows where a person's upper limit is, and no one is qualified to easily deny the results of a person's efforts, you just need to move forward, don't be afraid of anything, don't go out of your way to pursue something, and don't care what others think of you, you are you, you are not anyone's ornament, nor is it anyone's substitute." ”

After saying this, Sakuraku drank the last sip of the remaining drink bottle, not talking, but leaving Sakura time to think alone.

After a moment, Sakura took a deep breath, looked up at Sakuraku and said, "I seem to be able to understand why Sakurara-sa and Master are so powerful. ”

Sakura looked at Sakura, who was no longer depressed and full of energy in her eyes, and smiled slightly: "It's good if you can figure it out, and it's not in vain for me to have a small spiritual class today." ”

"Hee-hee~~"

Sakura laughed happily when she heard this, and said, "Sister Sakuraku, can you help me talk to the master later, and let her teach me some attack-type ninjutsu tomorrow, the exam is about to be, I want to pass." ”

Sakuraku smiled dumbly and said, "You ...... this thing with her."

"Who!"

Sakuraku, who was halfway through speaking, turned her head sharply, a gleam flashed in her eyes, and slashed her right hand into a knife towards the wall of the hot spring.

Although he doesn't have a knife in his hand, and he wears a bracelet that suppresses his strength, Sakuraku can still chop it out empty-handed.

A white light flashed violently over the wall, and the incision was not smooth, but this was the effect that Sakuraku wanted, and saw her wrap up her bath towel, jump into the air, and wave a knife with her right hand again, only to hear a bang, and the wall that had endured the limit of what she could bear fell to the ground, followed by a man's voice.

"it!"

"How bold you are!"

Sakuraku's eyes narrowed slightly, she grabbed the bath towel with her left hand to prevent it from falling, and waved her right hand violently in the direction where the voice came from, "I want to see who gave you the courage to dare to peep at me in the bath!" ”

A knife that was more fierce than the previous two flashed by, and Sakuraku didn't stay in place, but rushed out directly through the gap with one foot.

'Ran away? ’

Sakuraku looked around, but she didn't find anything like a stump or a severed arm, but she did find a strand of white hair.

Bending down to pick up the white-haired Sakuraku, his brows furrowed, and he said darkly, "This guy has some ability to dodge the knife that I swung with all my might." ’

But then Sakuraku sneered, and the fire in her right hand suddenly appeared, burning the white hair to ashes.

'Don't let me catch you!' ’