Chapter 162: The Female Knight

The next morning, in the village of Konoha, just as dawn broke, a ray of golden morning light pierced through the gap between the window and the curtains, slipping directly into Tsunade’s bedroom.

Inside the room, Tsunade was still fast asleep. Perhaps because there was no familiar presence beside her, her sleeping posture was rather unruly. A fair, slender arm and a pair of long, snow-white legs were completely exposed outside the blanket.

The golden morning light crested over Tsunade’s golden hair, shining straight down upon her eyes. The warmth brought by the sunlight gradually awakened the sleeping woman.

Tsunade’s long eyelashes fluttered a few times before she slowly opened her eyes. The dazzling glare of the morning sun greeted her vision, causing her to squint and quickly shut her eyes tightly once more.

Right after, Tsunade let out a massive yawn. Then, just like every other ordinary morning, she asked her boyfriend, "Yufuku, what time is it?"

A short moment later, the bedroom remained deathly quiet. Aside from the sound of Tsunade’s breathing, no one answered her question.

Not hearing a response from her boyfriend, Tsunade shifted the arm and long legs resting outside the blanket, reaching out to embrace the space beside her, hoping to grab her usual human-sized body pillow.

Naturally, she clutched at empty air; Kato Yufuku was nowhere to be found in the bed.

Because of this movement, a vast expanse of Tsunade’s smooth, flawless back was directly exposed to the warm morning light. Her tender, milky-white skin intertwined with the golden rays of dawn, creating a brilliantly gorgeous sight.

Failing to embrace her usual human-sized pillow, the empty sensation in her hands and legs left Tsunade slightly dazed.

Having just woken up, her consciousness had yet to fully return, and she had clearly forgotten that she was the one who had kicked Kato Yufuku out of her house last night.

After remaining in a hazy slumber for a little longer, Tsunade lazily called out once more, "Yufuku, what time is it?"

Still, no one answered.

With a bewildered expression, Tsunade opened her eyes, fumbling and looking around. Failing to find the figure of her boyfriend, Kato Yufuku, beside her, she felt a trace of doubt as to where he might have gone.

"Where is he?"

Following that, Tsunade lifted the blanket covering her body and checked her ample, voluptuous breasts, confirming that there was no mischievous, wandering hand fondling them as usual. Only then did she verify that her boyfriend, Kato Yufuku, was truly not in her bed.

Shaking her pretty little head to gather her wits, Tsunade finally remembered that Kato Yufuku had been banished from her home the previous night, which immediately led to the recollection of how he had forced her to work overtime yesterday.

"Hmph, what a blockhead. Why is he being so obedient this time? It really feels awkward waking up in the morning with nothing to hug."

Certain that Kato Yufuku was not in the bedroom, coupled with the memory of being teased by him in the office yesterday, and fueled further by her lingering morning crankiness, Tsunade completely threw all notions of poise and image to the wind.

Her two small hands grabbed wildly at the blanket, balling it up into a heap. Twisting her slender waist, she flipped and straddled her long legs over the bundle, using the blanket as a substitute for a certain someone as she rode upon it.

"Idiot! Blockhead! You're never around when I need you. Tell me, aren't you a total idiot?"

"That's for making me work overtime yesterday, you plague of a man!"

As Tsunade slapped and punched the blanket, she hurled insults at the absent fool, completely oblivious to the fact that she was currently wearing only a pair of light-green panties.

Normally, Tsunade had the habit of sleeping in a bra. However, over the past half-year or so, Kato Yufuku had completely broken her of that routine.

She hadn't abandoned the habit voluntarily; it was purely passive.

Even if she wore a bra before going to sleep, it would mysteriously vanish by the time she woke up the next morning. Over time, Kato Yufuku successfully conditioned Tsunade into the habit of sleeping braless.

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So, where was the blockhead Kato Yufuku, whom Tsunade was currently berating?

Naturally, he was leaning against the bedroom door, watching his girlfriend vent her morning anger.

And, incidentally, admiring the majestic sight of Lady Tsunade charging forward like a female knight.

Kato Yufuku hadn't been slacking off or sleeping in today. After successfully acquiring what he wanted from Uchiha Yashiro last night, he had transformed into a crow and flown straight back to his own home to sleep and rest.

The reason he arrived slightly later than usual this morning was because, following his morning training, he had spent a bit of time organizing the spoils he had obtained from Uchiha Yashiro yesterday.

Last night, Kato Yufuku hadn't merely unlocked the genjutsu function within his ninja system; Uchiha Yashiro had practically offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal, throwing in a remarkably unique genjutsu as well.

That genjutsu was so unique that even Kato Yufuku had to invest extra time to study it thoroughly.

The Uchiha clan's forbidden technique—the ultimate genjutsu executed at the cost of losing the vision of the Sharingan: Izanagi!

Izanagi is an ultimate, heaven-defying genjutsu that turns disadvantageous factors, such as injuries sustained by the caster, into illusions, while simultaneously turning the caster's attacks and other advantageous factors into reality. One could say it is cast upon both the caster and the opponent simultaneously, blurring the boundary between illusion and reality to convert one into the other.

In layman's terms, executing Izanagi once meant gaining an extra life.

In the original story, Uchiha Itachi had once referred to it as "the perfect ocular technique," and Shimura Danzo later transplanted eleven Sharingan, effectively granting him ten extra lives.

To be honest, when Kato Yufuku was sorting through his gains this morning and discovered Izanagi, he was genuinely quite surprised and couldn't help but study it for a while longer.

The only pity was that, according to his preliminary morning research, Izanagi—this bug-like, life-saving genjutsu—was currently unusable for Kato Yufuku.

For no other reason than the fact that executing Izanagi once consumed a Sharingan.

Kato Yufuku didn't possess any Sharingan on his body, and last night he had only absorbed the pupil power residing within Uchiha Yashiro's left Mangekyo Sharingan.

From beginning to end, Kato Yufuku had never planned on transplanting a Sharingan.

Why would he transplant such a thing? To become a red-eyed patient?

How could red-eyed sickness compare to his current, gorgeous light-blue stellar eyes? Even his usual lazy, dead-fish eyes looked better than red-eyed sickness.

Still, a life-saving technique like Izanagi was undeniably appealing. After a brief period of study that morning, seeing that it was almost time to wake Tsunade up, Kato Yufuku temporarily set Izanagi aside in the back of his mind and hurried over to Tsunade's house to rouse her from sleep.

In reality, Kato Yufuku had already arrived a while ago. He had entered the bedroom just around the time Tsunade asked him for the time the second year.

When Kato Yufuku pushed open the bedroom door, his mind was still occupied with thoughts of Izanagi. Then, a breathtaking landscape greeted his eyes, causing him to momentarily lose his focus. By the time he snapped out of it, he was greeted by the magnificent spectacle of Tsunade acting as a female knight charging into battle.

*To hell with Izanagi!*

That was Kato Yufuku's very first thought upon snapping out of his daze and witnessing Tsunade's cavalry charge, instantly banishing the ultimate life-saving genjutsu to the back of his mind.

A skill that could save one's life was undoubtedly sweet beyond measure, but no matter how sweet it was, it couldn't compare to the sweetness of the scenery currently unfolding before Kato Yufuku's eyes.

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