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After entering the village, Satoru and Terumi Mei had a particularly good interpersonal relationship, and almost everyone who sees her would greet her.
"Mizukage-sama, thank you for always working hard."
"Mizukage-sama, my family made new kind of wagashi today, I will send it to your office later."
"Mizukage-sama…"
Such an approachable Kage-level, except for Terumi Mei and Satoru, have never been seen by others. Even the third Hokage in Konoha village had just an approachable air. If he walked on the street, he would not be his real self. The two people came out holding hands and went to their house to eat.
After arriving at Mizukage's office, Terumi Mei lied down on the sofa and did not move as if some kind of burden had been relieved.
Naruto looked around very curiously, but he was much disciplined than his normal self and didn't move around too much.
Satoru looked at her and asked, "What's the matter? Are you tired of socializing with them?"
"It's not that..." Terumi Mei said after thinking for a while, "It's just that I don't want to disappoint them."
"But sometimes that kind of expectation can become a burden on you, doesn't it?"
Terumi Mei closed her eyes tiredly and said, "Yeah, I really want to be a good Mizukage, no matter whoever needs me, I want to be able to help them, I will not allow myself to appear tired in front of them."
"Tch, this kind of thing is really tiring." Naruto sat on the side and said, "Onee-san, can't you just imitate my sensei? He is very shameless, and due to that his life is very easy."
"Get lost brat!" Satoru cursed with a smile, and drove Naruto out of the room, then sighed and said to her, "When are you going to find your knot?"
Terumi Mei opened her eyes, looked at the ceiling of her office and said, "He's right here."
Satoru frowned: "What?"
Terumi Mei stepped on the floor with her foot and said, "After becoming Mizukage, I buried him here, and this is his tombstone."
Hearing this, Satoru frowned even deeper.
'Doesn't that mean that you think of this every day when you come here to work?'
'Is she torturing herself in this way to make amends or something else?'
"You think I'm crazy, don't you?" Terumi Mei said with a weird smile on her lips, "But I only feel alive when I'm here, and only here I don't feel that I'm still trapped in that day."
She is the Mizukage, the people in the village need her, the whole Land of Water needs her, and she can't let herself fail those expectations because of being trapped in those dark days.
After Terumi said that, Satoru finally understood.
'She turned the pain into the driving force for her own progress as the Mizukage.'
Before, Satoru didn't know much specifics about this matter, but now it seemed that she was far braver than he imagined.
"You're doing great."
"Well, next, can you tell me what should I do?"
Terumi Mei was obviously smiling, but her eyes were still crying, her soul was crying.
It's not that she doesn't want to untangle her heart, but she really doesn't know what to do.
The dead cannot be chased, it was really impossible.
"What's that man's name?"
"He's called Yamada, a child of my parents' subordinates, after he ran out that day, he was killed... even his internal organs were all emptied."
"If you find the murderer, will your heart be untied?"
Although it was a questioning sentence, Satoru's expression was very determined, and after Terumi Mei showed a shocked expression, he became even more certain about his answer.
'This solution is feasible.'
"But how to find the murderer?"
Terumi Mei smiled wryly and said, "I have been searching for a long time, for many years, but there is no clue."
"Do you remember anything from that day? Any kind of detail?"
"Of course, that scene is etched in my soul."
"Okay, I want to enter your memory."
"How would you do that? Is it a kind of illusion?"
"…"
Satoru didn't know how to explain the technique to her, so he could only vaguely say, "Just trust me, I will help you find the forgotten details, if there is any clue about the murderer, I will find him/her."
Hearing this, Terumi Mei opened her eyes, pulled Satoru's arm and said, "You must...help me, I also want to move forward with you."
This sentence was tantamount to a confession.
Satoru lowered his eyes, pulled down Terumi Mei's hand, shook it firmly, then put it back and said, "Trust me, I will save you."
His ambiguous attitude made Terumi Mei very distressed.
If she could really be freed this time... then... then she would really confess.
Thinking of this, the exhausted Terumi Mei fell asleep.
Satoru looked at her for a while, and then went out.
If he had to use that technique to enter Terumi Mei's memories, he needed an absolutely safe place.
There should be no one around here to bother them. Now that everyone knew that Terumi Mei had returned to Kirigakure, it was very likely that people would come to her all the time.
Satoru needed at least one day and one night, because the flow rate of time in that illusion environment was different from that in the real world. In order to ensure that the details of Terumi Mei's memory were clearer, he would deliberately slow down the time inside.
But here he didn't had anyone he could completely trust.
As he was walking, he heard a certain bastard's voice, "Let me tell you, the Ichiraku ramen in our Konoha village is super delicious. When you pass by later, I can treat you to eat there!"
"What? Two bowls? Let's forget it, I can only treat you to one bowl, because I don't have much pocket money, let alone there are two of you!"
"Nee-san, you two are twins, who is the older and who is the younger? I haven't figured it out."
'This guy Naruto actually started chatting with those twin sisters.'
Mina and Rina looked at each other, then put on the same pose, and said to Naruto, "Guess! If you guess it, we two can treat you to our Kirigakure's famous food, you can eat as much as you want!"
"Really? You guys are for real!"
Naruto's eyes lit up when he heard this.
"Then I have to guess correctly! I guess you are the elder sister!"
Naruto pointed at Rina with the high ponytail.
The two looked at each other and laughed again.
Satoru walked over and said, "The one you are pointing to is the younger sister, and the one in the kimono is the older sister."
"Huh? But obviously she looks smaller..."
Naruto muttered.
In fact, what he said was still in polite words compared to his real reason in mind. What he wanted to say was that Mina, who was wearing a kimono, was the less-developed one of the two.
Mina also knew what he was thinking, so she pulled out a dagger from under her skirt with lightning speed, and thrust it across Naruto's face.
Naruto hadn't had time to be afraid, the next moment, Satoru rushed over and kicked Mina several meters away, the action seemed really merciless.
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