Traveling through Nagato, from conquering Konan to dominating the ninja world

Tsunade looked down at the green pendant on her chest...the one that carried so many memories for her.

The smile gradually faded.

That was a gift from her grandfather, Hashirama, who hoped that she would inherit Konoha's Will of Fire. She once treasured it and gave it to the two most important people in her life...

Those two both aim to become Hokage, and Tsunade feels that the meaning of this pendant complements their dream of becoming Hokage.

However, this pendant of extraordinary significance did not bring them good luck, but even brought them a curse.

His younger brother Nawaki, his lover Kato Dan... all died one after another on the road to pursuing their dreams.

She hated the title of 'Hokage' and she also hated this pendant!

But over the years, she has been wearing it close to her body...it is a contradictory feeling that she herself cannot describe.

Her hand slowly grasped the pendant.

"Lady Tsunade, don't!!!" Shizune showed a look of horror, but... Tsunade made up her mind, pulled off the pendant and placed it on the gambling table.

Tsunade raised her head and looked into Konan's eyes. There was no trace of drunkenness in her eyes anymore. She said with a half-smile, "I remember now. You looked like a child back then, right? You've grown into an adult now..."

Xiaonan had no intention of deliberately concealing her identity, and said calmly: "You are still the same as always, do you have any secret to maintaining your appearance?"

"Haha." Tsunade sneered and said bluntly: "Don't be so polite. I don't know where you knew about the existence of this pendant and what you plan to do with it, but..."

"Wow!!" Tsunade actually snatched the dice cup from the dealer!

The dealer was confused: "This, this..."

Xiaonan said, "It's okay."

"Wow!!" Tsunade swung the dice cup, put three dice into it, and shook it rapidly in the air! !

For a moment... the noise in the room was completely silent, with only the sound of the dice and the dice cup colliding rapidly!!

Tsunade closed her eyes and listened attentively to the movement of the dice! !

"Bang!!!"

At a certain moment, her tightly closed eyes suddenly opened!

At the same time, the dice cup slammed heavily on the gaming table!!

She raised her eyes, looked at Xiaonan, and said "but".

"Since you have chosen to compete with me at the gambling table, I, Tsunade, will severely return the favor in the name of 'gambling'! The basis for the victory this time is to guess the number of points I just shook out! Any objections?"

Xiaonan said: "No problem, how do you guess it specifically?"

Tsunade said: "Whoever guesses the closest number wins. If the difference is the same, the one with the smaller number wins!"

Xiaonan asked: "What if both parties guessed correctly?"

Tsunade's lips curled up in a confident arc: "Whoever guesses first wins! I guess... 18 points!"

Perrin understood that Tsunade must have used superb dice-rolling skills to get the exact number, otherwise... she wouldn't be so confident of winning!

18 points, that is, all three dice are 6!

I was careless... Tsunade has superb gambling skills!

And this time, in order to win, she did not hesitate to use off-the-board tactics and completely took the initiative...

Is that the end?

Just when she was about to signal Xiaonan to guess a number at random and leave it to fate.

Xiaonan closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, "Then I'll guess six!"

Tsunade smiled and said, "Oh? Six o'clock? Are you sure? On what basis?"

Xiaonan opened his eyes and said, "The person I like the most has a connection with the number '6'."

Perrin: Huh???

"Oh? Then you are really awesome. Unfortunately, you are destined to never win against me..."

As she spoke, she slowly lifted up the dice.

The scene that appeared... shocked everyone!!

"What's happening here?"

The dice under the cup dice were indeed all 6 points facing up... but only two of them! Because the third dice was shattered because Tsunade dropped the cup dice too hard!

Tsunade's dice-rolling skills...are not as good as Fatso's after all!

So... the number of points is 12!

“How could... this happen!?” Even Tsunade herself turned pale because of this sudden change.

Xiaonan said calmly, "18 points, 6 points, we are both 12 points away from 6 points, but... you said beforehand that if the difference is the same, then the one who guesses the smaller number wins."

"I'm sorry, Lady Tsunade, I won..."

All the silver and money on the table, as well as... the pendant, all became Xiaonan's pocket!

"Wow!"

The woman in holy white clothes, with her arms outstretched, had two sections of white paper satin hanging from her sleeves, hanging on the tatami, with spiritualistic rituals written on them!

As she formed seals with her hands.

"Hua La La...!" The coins in front of her and behind Tsunade, which symbolized the smell of money, flew up in response. In this four-and-a-half-square-meter Japanese-style room, they fluttered in the sky, and then arranged in layers and flew into the paper satin in her sleeves in an orderly manner!

How could the ordinary people present have ever seen such a scene of a goddess descending from heaven? ?

Whether sitting or standing, everyone was breathtakingly amazed by this scene.

"So beautiful……"

"Even the goddesses are no more than this!"

"If I could bet with her and become her slave, I would be willing to bet..."

One minute later, all the money was put into the cuffs!

"Then I'll take the extra bet."

Xiaonan leaned over and took the pendant from the table.

Shizune stood in front of the table, her eyes shadowed by her bangs.

Before turning around, Perrin gave her a deep look, and left the gambling house with Xiaonan.

Shizune supported Tsunade and returned to the room in the hotel.

"Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade seemed to have lost her soul at this moment, staring at the wall with a dull look.

Shizune knew that Tsunade's distraught state at the moment was not because she lost her money, but because she lost the pendant with extraordinary significance.

Because of its ominousness, people aroused disgust and took it as a gamble in a fit of anger, but they miscalculated the consequences of losing it!

Some things, only after you really lose them, you will know how to cherish them...

Shizune closed the door silently.

"I'm sorry, Lady Tsunade, I'm about to do something that goes against your principles!"

……

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Xiaonan and Perrin were walking together on the post road outside the city.

"This pendant seems to be quite important to Tsunade. We can be considered to have taken someone's love, right?"

"I can't help it. I promised Orochimaru not to use force against Tsunade, so this is the only solution I can use."

"With this pendant that Tsunade never leaves, it will be powerful enough to make the Third Hokage Hiruzen believe the contents of the letter and then lead him out of Konoha..."

"Whoosh!!"

Behind me... there was a sound of breaking wind!!

Xiaonan's eyes flashed and he moved away.

"Swish!" A gray shadow fell and held Perrin in his arms.

Xiaonan looked at Shizune who was holding Perrin hostage and asked coldly, "What does this mean?"

Shizune placed a kunai around Perrin's neck, "Please return the pendant. It means a lot to Lady Tsunade!"

Xiaonan said, "At the gambling table, you must accept defeat if you are willing to gamble. You know that, don't you?"

Shizune said: "So, this has nothing to do with Lady Tsunade, it's my personal behavior!!!"

Seeing that Xiaonan was indifferent, Shizune gently scratched the skin of Perrin's neck with a kunai, and blood oozed out. She said firmly: "I'm not kidding! This kunai is poisoned. She has been poisoned. You keep the pendant and I will give her the antidote. It's fair, right?"

"unfair."

"Ah...!? What!? What!?" Suddenly, Shizune's face turned pale.

Clearly, there was a pair of invisible hands passing through her armpits...