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"Lady Tsunade, Karin is ready!" a palm-sized slug on Tsunade's shoulder whispered.
Because Tsunade suffers from hemophobia and trembles at the sight of blood, and summoning jutsu requires her own blood as a medium, she cannot use summoning jutsu at the moment.
Therefore, Karin, who is in Shikkotsu Forest, needs to use reverse summoning jutsu from her end to bring Tsunade and Naruto to Shikkotsu Forest.
"Then let Karin begin."
Tsunade nodded, then raised her hand and placed it on Naruto's shoulder, saying in a deep voice,
"We are ready on our end too."
"Yes!"
The slug responded, then disappeared in a puff of white smoke.
Immediately after, Naruto felt a familiar yet strange sensation emerge from around Tsunade, enveloping him as well, held by Tsunade's grip on his shoulder.
This familiar sensation was, of course, the feeling of spatial travel.
However, this kind of time-space travel—no, it should be called spatial travel—was far less intense than the feeling of his true body traveling through time and space during his real-world experiences.
Moreover, this reverse summoning travel was much shorter in duration than world travel.
Naruto had barely registered the sensation before it was over.
"We've arrived!"
After the reverse summoning ended, Tsunade released Naruto's shoulder and smiled at his normal expression, asking,
"How was it, the feeling of reverse summoning? Wasn't it interesting?"
"I didn't feel much."
Naruto smacked his lips and said, "It ended before I had a chance to experience it."
"Haha!~"
Tsunade laughed upon hearing Naruto's words, then said,
"If you want to experience it in detail, it's quite simple.
You just need to sign a contract with a summoning beast, and the Sage of Shikkotsu Forest is a very good choice, you know."
"How about it, want to consider it?" Tsunade said, winking at Naruto, her intention clear.
She wanted to trick Naruto into signing a summoning contract with the Sage of Shikkotsu Forest.
If successful, Naruto's legitimacy as her disciple would directly surpass Jiraiya's.
After all, the type of summoning beast is also one of the important symbols of being someone's disciple.
"I'll pass."
Naruto shook his head, then looked at Karin, who was staring at him with sparkling eyes, and greeted her with a smile,
"Yo, Karin, long time no see."
"Mm, long time no see!"
Karin blushed and nodded at Naruto, then looked at his height, which was more than a head taller than hers, and exclaimed,
"Naruto, you've grown so much!~"
"Hehe!~"
Naruto chuckled and scratched his head, saying,
"Maybe it's because my strength grew too fast, so my height also grew faster."
As he spoke, he stared at Karin for a moment, then said seriously,
"But Karin, your height doesn't seem to have changed much, you're still so short."
"!!!~"
Karin's smile instantly vanished when she heard Naruto's words, and she retorted angrily,
"Idiot, I've grown too, it's just not as obvious as you, and the increase in strength has absolutely nothing to do with height.
Finally, I'm not short, you're just too tall!"
Karin's height was not considered short among her peers, and was even relatively tall among females.
It was just that Naruto was too tall, which made her seem a bit short.
"Is that so?"
Naruto thought carefully after hearing Karin's words and realized it seemed to be his own problem—no, it should be the world's problem.
In this world, Karin's height seemed to be within the normal range for her age, and he himself was the abnormal one.
However, in the other world, both Robin and Yamato were quite a bit taller than their peers here, not to mention the 'giants' like Jack and Black Maria, who were only nine years old but three meters tall.
Naruto felt that he had stayed there for a long time, so his body's growth was also starting to lean towards that world.
"So, will I grow as tall as Mr. Issho, or even Uncle Kaido, in the future?"
Kaido's height exceeded seven meters, even taller than the small Titans in the Titan World.
Naruto felt that if he grew to that height in the future, wouldn't it be a bit too exaggerated?
Compared to that, Mr. Issho's height of two meters seventy felt much more 'normal'.
"Of course!"
Karin didn't know Naruto was lost in thought.
She looked at him irritably and said, "If your height continues to grow at this rate, you might become a giant over two meters tall after you grow up!"
"Two meters—a giant?"
Naruto felt a bit dazed when he heard Karin's words.
He couldn't connect the words 'two meters tall' and 'giant' at all right now, and he had a premonition that his height would definitely exceed two meters in the future.
At that time, would he be regarded as a "monster" in this world?
Oh, I almost forgot, as a Jinchuriki, I'm already a monster in the eyes of ordinary people.
Then it's fine.
"Naruto—"
At this moment, Uzumaki Kushina's voice suddenly sounded in Naruto's mind, saying with some worry, "Will your height really grow to be like the people in that world in the future? If you're too tall, you might have trouble finding a wife here later!"
One can only say, a mother is a mother.
Naruto is less than eight years old now, and Uzumaki Kushina is already worrying about him taking a wife in the future.
However, her worry was also reasonable.
If Naruto's height was only around two meters in the future, that would be fine.
Otherwise, not to mention growing to the 'giant' height like Kaido, even if he exceeded three meters, it might really be difficult for him to find a wife here.