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After another day of political affairs, Tsunade, dragging her exhausted body, casually bought some Oden from a small, still-open street stall. She slowly walked towards home, skewering pieces with a bamboo stick and feeding them into her mouth.
Her mind was still on the battlefield.
Although she had decided to find an opportunity to take Sawara Kiri to intercept the Third Raikage, Homura Mitokado and his group suddenly made a move for some unknown reason. So, Tsunade slowed down the speed of assembling and selecting the Hokage Guard, planning to observe what they were doing first before proceeding.
However, Homura Mitokado's actions were also very secretive, so her people couldn't find any valuable intelligence. She could only wait for the results.
If she were to act rashly, it would be hard to say whether they would receive support or a stab in the back.
After throwing away the jumbled thoughts in her mind, Tsunade looked up.
The weather today seemed exceptionally good, with countless sparkling stars scattered across the night sky, seemingly stretching endlessly.
But Tsunade unexpectedly no longer had the same desire to admire Konoha's sky as she did when she was a child.
Back then, many people helped bear all her burdens.
Now, all the barriers that could shield her from the pressures from many sides had disappeared.
Thus, she became one of the Village's highest pillars.
This period of time was one of the few moments in her day when she could relax, pulling her gaze away from the countless documents and looking elsewhere.
However, thinking of Orochimaru, who was probably still in the Hokage Office, tirelessly working with a Shadow Clone, likely still organizing military intelligence, she suddenly smiled, looking a bit gleeful.
This was indeed a woman with a very bad personality.
"Bang—"
Tsunade kicked open the door, still with the bamboo stick in her mouth, and loudly, with a full mouth, exclaimed:
"I'm home!"
Sure enough, the house was pitch black.
It was already time for the children to be asleep.
However, as Tsunade walked forward, she suddenly stopped, turned back, and stretched her neck to look at one of the rooms that was still lit.
She walked over and peered through the window, seeing Sawara Kiri hunched over a desk, scribbling and drawing something.
'Let me see, what little secret does this brat have?'
Out of curiosity, or perhaps because this woman named Tsunade had no respect for a young man's privacy, she casually put down the Oden nearby, carefully stepped into the room, and peered over Sawara Kiri's shoulder, looking at the desk in front of him.
Then, she saw sheets of paper covered with diagrams of human meridians, muscles, and organ distribution spread across the entire table.
Sawara Kiri was currently hunched over, rapidly sketching and writing on these sheets of paper with a pen, constantly annotating them with various notes.
Tsunade frowned and looked closely for a while, realizing that these were all Sealing Technique distribution diagrams.
But when she quickly compared them in her mind, she found that she had never seen similar patterns in Grandma Mito's secret scrolls—if anything, rather than techniques to be branded on a human body, they looked more like small spatial barriers meant to be set up in certain secret locations.
'Hmm, is it a spatial attribute type?'
'Could it be the one on this little guy?'
As Tsunade was thinking, she noticed that some of her own Yin Seal and Chakra storage seemed to be incorporated into the full-body Sealing Technique diagrams.
"Eh?!"
"You brat, when did you find my Yin Seal?!"
Her eyes instantly widened.
At such close proximity, Sawara Kiri had, of course, already noticed Tsunade's presence.
However, because the Limitless itself was an extremely massive design project, seeing one or two pages would make it impossible to reconstruct, and coupled with her not making a sound, Mr. Sawara, who was busy with the next stage of work, naturally didn't bother with this uninvited, troublesome guest earlier.
It wasn't until he heard her voice that Sawara Kiri continued to scribble on the full-body meridian distribution map while casually replying:
"Before that, shouldn't Lady Tsunade knock before entering?"
"What I'm currently drawing is our Sawara clan's absolute secret Sealing Technique, which even an unbetrothed daughter-in-law isn't allowed to see. How do you plan to compensate me, Lady Tsunade?"
As soon as his words fell, Tsunade immediately grabbed his neck in a fierce hug, constantly pressing his head into her ample chest, gritting her teeth and saying angrily:
"You brat, you're really too presumptuous!"
"You even dare to tease your own superior?"
"How about I compensate you like this? Let big sister show you what adult charm feels like!"
"Ora Ora Ora—!"
It must be said, the ample chest is indeed the most indisputable justice in this world!
Sawara Kiri was startled by the softness from behind his head and nearly straightened up, but realizing where he had fallen into, he immediately relaxed his guard.
He wasn't a truly naive teenager, so he naturally accepted as much of this welfare handout as he could get. He grunted and mumbled as Tsunade playfully pushed him back and forth, and he even took the opportunity to rub against her.
Seeing that he didn't show even a hint of the shyness unique to his age, and instead kept taking advantage of her, Tsunade suddenly felt like she had lost out, and seemed to release him rather boredly.
"You brat, you're really no fun," she complained in a low voice.
When she was with this brat, there was no pleasure of a mature older sister teasing a pure young man.
"Actually, I wouldn't mind if Lady Tsunade came a few more times," Sawara Kiri said, outwardly showing no significant reaction.
"Thump."
Tsunade, who had been pretending not to notice his movements just now, immediately gave him a sharp flick on the forehead, annoyed.
Mr. Sawara instantly calmed down.
"So, what are you drawing right now?"
Tsunade's gaze fell upon the large pile of papers on his desk, and she frowned, changing the subject: "At your age, designing such a massive Sealing Technique all at once can easily lead to problems, you know."
Precisely because she was skilled in medical Ninjutsu, Tsunade understood best how a seemingly insignificant small error, once left inside the human body, could cause absurd consequences.
"It's fine."
Sawara Kiri, however, casually continued to pick up the scattered papers on the desk, re-sorting them according to his mental order, and then resumed his previous work, saying to Tsunade:
"Rather than designing a seal, it's more like copying."
"At most, I'm just transforming a part of it into your Yin Seal technique, Lady Tsunade. I've already tested it on myself, and there's no major impact."
As he spoke, he swept back the hair from his forehead, revealing a rhombus-shaped mark.
Tsunade's expression couldn't help but be surprised: "You finished it so quickly?"
"Also, how exactly did you find my Yin Seal?!"
"I had Yuki get it for me," Mr. Sawara sold out his own sister without hesitation.
"That brat!!"
She never expected it, guarding against everything, but a thief from within the family is hard to guard against.
Tsunade's chest immediately puffed out in anger.
"It's nothing, right?"
Sawara Kiri, however, seemed completely unconcerned: "Anyway, Lady Tsunade still owes me two favors from before, so let's just count this as one."
"What two, there's only one left!"
Tsunade slapped the table in annoyance and took a sip from the sake bottle in her hand: "You sending your sister over to be my disciple also counts as one!"
"You don't know how much that brat annoys me..."
Surprisingly, perhaps because she always treated this young man in front of her as a child, or perhaps because of the occasional, unintentional maturity he displayed beyond his age, or perhaps the many things they had experienced together.
When Tsunade complained and cursed with this little guy in front of her, she felt no hindrance at all, just like when she, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, those two idiots, used to sneak into her grandfather's room to steal things when they were little—everything felt so natural.
Moreover, unlike those two fools, he was a very good listener.
Thus, Lady Tsunade, while speaking, accidentally went off-topic and began to incessantly scold Homura Mitokado and those other good-for-nothing individuals in his ear, listing their various crimes and misdeeds.
Sawara Kiri had already been a seasoned corporate slave before transmigrating, so he was quite used to the feeling of secretly complaining about superiors with colleagues; occasionally chiming in with a few words would hit Lady Tsunade's sweet spot, causing her to unconsciously pat his shoulder and laugh heartily, as if much of the frustration she experienced in the Hokage Office had been alleviated.
It must be said, it was exactly like the feeling he had in his previous life, working himself to death for meager wages.
It wasn't until nearly half a bottle of sake had been consumed that Lady Tsunade, her face flushed, finally remembered the question she had come in with.
"Right, what's this Sealing Technique of yours for?"
Sawara Kiri lowered his head: "Megumi's strength is a bit lacking, so I plan to design a set of practical close-combat Sealing Techniques for her."
"Oh?"
Lady Tsunade, her face flushed, leaned closer, carrying a hint of sake and the fragrance from her hair.
At this moment, she hadn't yet recalled who the child named Megumi was.
However, she meticulously scrutinized the paper for a long time but couldn't find any connection between this Sealing Technique and close-combat attacks.
"How does it work?"
Sawara Kiri immediately became animated, pointing at the diagram and explaining to her: "Because 'Limitless' itself requires high-precision Chakra control within the body, which is only possible with the 'Six Eyes', Megumi doesn't have this bloodline, so she definitely can't master it. Therefore, I simply removed the part that requires control over the technique, while completely retaining the instinctive, full-body spatial defense of 'Limitless'."
"This way, Megumi only needs to maintain Chakra input, and she can activate a spatial boundary floating on her body's surface, just like me, making her immune to physical or Ninjutsu attacks."
"Furthermore, I also considered that this spatial defense consumes a lot of her Chakra, so I changed the original large portion of the Sealing Technique to Ah Yin Seal, allowing her to store Chakra normally and then release it all at once during combat."
"The only drawback is that this seal I designed for her can only be used for passive defense; she can't actively manipulate spatial power on her own."
"As for offense, that's entirely up to her."
"Hiss—"
After listening to his explanation, Lady Tsunade realized that this method actually had some potential.
This way, he could perfectly create a close-combat Ninja with absolute defense, just like this brat!
This kid, did he personally create a Kage-level powerhouse?
However, Sawara Kiri still looked somewhat dissatisfied, sighing helplessly: "But this method of use is too inflexible; once the Chakra is depleted, she'll immediately be done for."
"But, if it's Megumi, she should still be able to control it somewhat with her Three-Tomoe Sharingan."
As for his deeper motives, he had no intention of voicing them.
As long as Megumi's attention could be shifted as much as possible towards close-combat, then the later emphasis on the Mangekyo Sharingan, or on Genjutsu, would presumably be much less.
Moreover, after resolving Megumi's mid-level emotional knot, he could also complete the last bit of points, unlocking the final ultimate move of "Limitless."
Sawara Kiri's diligence these past few days was also due to this—he was genuinely afraid that one day, while they were lying in bed, Miss Megumi would suddenly stare at him with a pair of pinwheels, saying things like 'basement,' 'forever,' 'only mine,' and so on.
Even if he thought with his lower brain, he knew that at that time, he, exhausted, would definitely be controlled to death.
"Wait!?"
However, Lady Tsunade suddenly discovered some crucial information from his earlier words.
"Sharingan?"
"You're going to teach my technique to an Uchiha?!"
Sawara Kiri looked at her calmly: "Lady Tsunade, it's a new era for Konoha now; don't dwell on past grievances, ahhhh—!"
Before he could finish speaking, Lady Tsunade had already slammed him down with a Feathered Binding.
This time, the great thunder brought not a soft sensation, but an explosive, taut, soft body pressing against him, almost sending him to his demise.
"You inherently evil brat!!!"
That's what she said, but she didn't stop him.
After some more time passed, the battle on the front lines continued, while the rear remained stable.
Once Sawara Kiri completed the Sealing Technique he was working on, he called Megumi into the room and began the next phase of instruction.
"Kiri! Onii-chan! Big Brother!"
Upon learning what he was about to do, the most nervous person was not Miss Megumi, but Sawara Yuki.
The young girl looked at him with a tense expression, unusually serious: "You should know, shouldn't you, how dangerous that kind of thing is?"
"That's a full-body technique, you know, and Kiri has to draw and write super difficult seals all over that bad woman for who knows how long!"
Sawara Kiri nodded: "I know."
Yuki's expression grew even more strained, and she unconsciously raised her voice:
"You know, and you're still doing it!"
"What if that woman suddenly gets horny in the middle of the technique and presses you down, Kiri, and does this and that, then wouldn't I be finished!"
Sawara Kiri looked at her with a strange expression: "Why would Yuki be finished?"
Yuki's voice immediately caught in her throat, and she stammered for a long time without speaking.
She couldn't possibly say, 'Kiri's first time has already been targeted by me, Sawara Yuki, you know!' Could she?
"Wait a minute!"
Mid-sentence, the young girl seemed to suddenly realize something, her eyes widening: "Kiri, you should refute that! Say something like, 'I won't be pushed down by such a weakling!'"
Hearing this, Sawara Kiri sighed as if in difficulty, speaking with considerable helplessness:
"I probably can't escape."
"Kiri!"
As they whispered, the inner door of the room was already pushed open.
Miss Megumi, who was clearly prepared much earlier, poked her head out from the door and looked towards Sawara Kiri, asking:
"Are you ready yet?"
"Coming now."
Sawara Kiri responded, looking at the small young girl in front of him with considerable helplessness.
My foolish little sister, you still don't understand, do you?
What kind of difficult future choices I, your older brother, am currently facing.
No matter how you look at it, the pure love route is better than the Yandere basement, isn't it?
"In any case, remember to wait outside."
"You can only come in after it's finished."
"Gugu—!"
Yuki immediately let out an incredibly painful wail.
She had to wait outside?
What kind of ultimate torture was this!
Upon entering the room, Sawara Kiri saw that Miss Megumi had already folded her clothes neatly and placed them aside, facing him openly, like a wife awaiting her newlywed husband's return home.
There was not a trace of shyness in the young girl's expression, as if she had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
On the contrary, Sawara Kiri, the one performing the technique, looked a little uncomfortable at this moment:
"Megumi."
"You can be a little shy."
However, the young girl's gaze towards him was full of anticipation, her tone more positive than ever:
"No need."
"I am completely ready!"
"Hurry and start, Kiri."
Sawara Kiri almost couldn't maintain his composure: "This is just performing a Sealing Technique; don't show that expectant expression!"
He realized that Megumi's current situation might be even more severe than his worst imagination.
The fact that she hadn't shown any signs before only meant she was very good at hiding it.
"Oh, Kiri."
As she spoke, Megumi suddenly straightened up and leaned forward towards him. Sawara Kiri instinctively leaned back.
Then, he heard the young girl lower her voice and say softly:
"I'm entrusting everything to you."
Sawara Kiri was stunned. It seemed he had never seen such a natural and heart-stirring expression on the young girl's face before.
As her words fell, the young girl pursed her lips, grabbed his collar, and suddenly lightly touched his lips, leaving a soft sensation.
Her eyes were clear and pure, seemingly carrying a hint of tender charm.
"Please."
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