"Father, are you really leaving?"
Inside the camp, Senba looked at his father with obvious reluctance.
"You brat, it's not like I'm dying. Why are you making that face? I'm just going to find your mother."
Isamu looked at him speechlessly.
"Uh… that's not what I meant. It's just that if you leave, I'm worried Minato and I won't be able to handle all the command work properly. Can't you stay a little longer?"
Senba genuinely didn't want his father to leave. The past few days had been torture for him and Minato. Commanding an army was far more difficult than fighting.
"I believe you and Minato can handle it together. Besides, your mother has been waiting for me for many years. I can't keep her waiting any longer."
After spending several days with Senba, Isamu was finally ready to set out and search for Tsunade.
Hearing that, Senba could only nod.
His mother had indeed waited for his father for many years.
"Then when you find Mother, please give her my regards. Tell her I've always missed her. And if possible… bring her back to Konoha."
After speaking, Senba bowed deeply.
"I'll pass along your words. As for whether she'll return to Konoha, that's not something I can decide."
Isamu smiled faintly.
"You know your mother's personality. No one can force her to do something she doesn't want to do."
"All right. It's time for me to go."
He glanced toward the horizon.
"I don't know how many months this search will take, so be careful while you're stationed at the border."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan appeared in his eyes.
A black spatial portal opened behind him as his ocular power surged.
This was one of the Rinnegan's abilities—creating short-range spatial gateways. While it couldn't compare to Kamui in range or convenience, it was still a very useful technique.
Without another word, Isamu stepped into the portal.
The black gateway closed behind him.
Moments later, another black portal opened high above the western region of the Land of Fire, and Isamu stepped out.
"Let's see where you are now, Tsunade."
Floating in the air, he closed his eyes and expanded his sensory perception.
Although only half of his original strength had recovered, finding a single person within the Land of Fire was still a simple task.
Ten minutes later, after filtering through hundreds of thousands of chakra signatures, he finally located Tsunade's chakra.
"It's in the south, huh?"
A smile appeared on his face.
"Tsunade, you really never left the Land of Fire."
Just as he was about to fly off, a familiar voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
[Ding!]
[Mission issued!]
[Please travel to the southern ocean within thirty days, locate the spacetime portal, and complete a journey across time and space.]
[The host's strength has now met the requirements. The Points Shop System has been removed and replaced with a mission reward system.]
[Mission Reward: Ultimate Yin-Yang Power.]
"Huh?"
Isamu raised an eyebrow.
"I just woke up a few days ago and the system is already giving me missions again. And there's no penalty this time."
He chuckled.
"It's becoming more and more user-friendly."
Truthfully, he had barely used the Points Shop anyway.
Getting rid of it wasn't much of a loss.
Still, the mission itself surprised him.
"A journey across time and space…"
He rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"I wonder where it's sending me this time. And how long I'll be gone."
A trace of helplessness appeared on his face.
"It seems my plan to spend time with Tsunade is about to be interrupted again."
After a moment, he shook his head.
"Forget it. I'll spend a few days with her first."
The mission wasn't urgent.
With his current speed and abilities, finding a spacetime portal somewhere in the southern ocean would not be difficult.
Right now, he simply wanted to spend what little time he had with Tsunade.
More than ten minutes later, Isamu arrived at a small town.
His sensory perception immediately locked onto Tsunade's location.
A casino.
"Still gambling, huh?"
He shook his head helplessly.
"That habit really hasn't changed."
With that, he swaggered directly inside.
The moment he entered, he encountered several low-level Ninja stationed nearby.
A single glance from his Sharingan instantly placed them under his control.
They weren't even worth his attention.
Soon, he spotted Tsunade.
She was sitting at a gambling table, already half-drunk, drinking sake while playing a simple game of betting high or low.
Good grief.
She couldn't win while sober, and now she was gambling drunk?
Wasn't this just donating money to the casino?
If not for the Senju family's wealth, who could afford to gamble like this?
"Come on, come on! Place your bets!"
The casino owner personally shook the dice.
"Lady Tsunade—ah, excuse me, Lady Tsunade, where will you place your bet this round?"
Only Tsunade sat at the table.
The casino clearly wasn't allowing anyone else to join.
After all, when the legendary "Big Fat Sheep" was involved, nobody wanted to lose money alongside her.
"One million. Big."
Without hesitation, Tsunade shoved a huge stack of cash onto the "Big" side while taking another drink.
"No, no, no, Lady Tsunade!"
A young girl around ten years old desperately grabbed her arm.
"This is our last one million! If we lose, we won't even have money left for food! Please think this through!"
"Tch, Shizune, let go."
Tsunade slapped her hand away.
"It's my money. I'll spend it however I want."
She pushed the entire pile forward.
"Besides, we're still in the Land of Fire. We're not going to starve."
Shizune could only watch helplessly as the money disappeared across the table.
"Oh?"
Standing nearby, Isamu looked at the young girl with surprise.
"So this is Dan's niece."
Time really did pass quickly.
The little girl had already grown this much.
Walking over to Tsunade's side, Isamu activated his Sharingan and glanced through the dice cup.
Then, without hesitation, he moved Tsunade's one million from "Big" to "Small."
The casino owner's expression immediately changed.
Shizune stared blankly at the stranger who had suddenly appeared.
Then pity filled her eyes.
This guy was finished.
Everyone knew Tsunade hated people touching money she had already bet.
And this stranger had just moved her entire wager.
He was definitely about to get beaten up.