Her words made Satoru pause for a moment, but after just a little while, Satoru smiled.
He stretched out his hand towards Terumi Mei's head, and Terumi Mei lowered her head subconsciously, waiting for his touch.
However, his hand just paused in the air, then fell on her shoulder, and patted her gently.
"Don't worry, I will help you. You have already won against too many people just by taking the initiative to take this step."
Terumi Mei looked at the big and powerful hand on her shoulder, and for some reason, she felt a kind of inexplicable loss.
"What's wrong?"
Satoru thought that Terumi Mei had something on her mind, so he asked her this question.
Terumi Mei knocked his hand off, and forced a smile and said, "It's okay, let's move on."
It was the first time for Naruto to come to such a far place, and he was very excited along the way.
"We have reached the border of the kingdom of water."
The terrain of the land of water was very strange. There were many islands across a large ocean. There were many mountains on the islands, and the weather was always rainy and foggy. When one comes to the water's edge, he/she could vaguely see the towering mountains in the thick fog.
Coming here, Terumi Mei became even more silent.
She knew that she might not be able to get out this time, and it was impossible for Satoru to stay with her in Kirigakure.
In other words... this might be her parting time with Satoru for good.
"Do you want to take a boat?"
"Well, I had already sent a letter back in advance."
At this time, a large ship passed through the fog and stopped in front of them.
There were two identical girls standing on the deck of the ship. Although they look the same, they had completely different styles.
One of them had long hair tied high into a ponytail and was wearing a heavy suit, while the other was wearing a black kimono with a sword on her back.
"Mina, Rina, thank you for your hard work."
"It's not at all hard." The girl with the high ponytail came over and helped Terumi Mei onto the ship.
The other girl helped Naruto to get on, and Satoru was the one left behind.
He smiled and raised his eyebrows, standing still.
"Won't you help me?"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the two girls blushed slightly.
Finally, the girl with the high ponytail (Mina) came over, stretched out her hand, and said, "Please, sir."
The smile on Satoru's face grew even wider, but he didn't take her hand, just walked around her and went upstairs.
His actions made her face even redder, but this time she was obviously angry.
"Don't tease them." Terumi Mei said in a low voice, "They have never been out of the Land of Water, so don't bring your bad habits to our land of water!"
This was still a polite way to say that, what Terumi Mei meant was that Satoru should not attack these two girls.
For this, Satoru expressed his innocence.
Although he... may be a little bit carnivorous, but he was not an animal!
These two girls looked very young at first glance, they should not even be eighteen, so he wouldn't do it.
Satoru didn't even bothered to answer because he was too lazy to explain, but Terumi Mei got the meaning of his silence wrong.
She looked at the two girls who were talking with complicated eyes, and finally entered the cabin to rest without saying anything.
They had been on the road for the past few days, except for resting at the inn at night, they had not stopped for the rest of the time. Naruto was the most exhausted one. As soon as they got on the ship, he lied down on the deck and fell asleep. He just found a soft place there to sleep.
Satoru sat by the window, watching the waves not showing what he was thinking.
Terumi Mei brought him some food and was about to turn around to leave when she heard him say, "Do you want to tell me about the Land of Water?"
Terumi Mei frowned, paying attention to his words very keenly.
'Want to?'
She wouldn't be so thoughtful if he had used "could".
But when he said this, it was like giving her the right to choose, and it didn't matter whether she complied or not.
It's like deliberately looking for something to distract Terumi Mei's attention, so that she won't be nervous.
Sensing his intention, Terumi Mei's eyes softened instantly, and she sat directly beside Satoru.
She was very good at controlling the distance, though her thighs were almost touching Satoru, but there was still a little distance.
The fragrance from Terumi Mei's body drifted into Satoru's nose, reminding him of the first time he met the person in front of him.
She was so proud, as if nothing in this world was enough to scare her, and she was completely different from the person in front of him right now who dared not look directly at her own past.
Satoru wanted to bring her back to her former self.
"What do you want to hear? Gossips, rumors or something big happening in our country?"
Before Satoru could speak, Terumi Mei continued, "Let me say this first! I won't say anything about our country's secrets..."
Satoru scolded her with a smile, "Am I that kind of person in your mind? But never mind... what I want to hear is your story, not someone else's."
"When outsiders talk about me, they always start with that I am the Mizukage, so why don't I just talk about how I became the Mizukage?"
"Very well."
In fact, she could speak about anything, for Satoru it made no difference.
Terumi Mei wanted to use this as an opening to clear her heart, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she couldn't speak at all.
'Those bloody stories, do I really want to talk about them to Satoru?'
'Is this appropriate?'
'Although he might not be afraid, and can even listen with a deadpan face…'
Terumi Mei subconsciously did not want him to know that part of her past.
Seeing that Terumi Mei was silent again, Satoru stood up and said without any hint of urging, "If you don't want to say it, don't say it, take your time."
He was about to leave to give her some alone time, but Terumi Mei held him back.
"Don't go, I will talk…"
Before the words could be finished, Terumi Mei stopped.
Because Satoru suddenly bent down and pinched her chin with one hand, making her unable to speak, "Mei-chan, I don't want to force you. If you don't want to say it, don't say it. I'm not angry. Don't try such ideas just to please me, I don't need it."
More importantly, he felt that Terumi Mei didn't need to do such things at all.
Terumi Mei panicked, she quickly grabbed Satoru and said, "I'm not trying to please you, I just don't want you to hear those bloody things."
Those things, even she herself doesn't want to recall, let alone Satoru hear about those.
But Terumi Mei didn't know that when Satoru came here, he already had a very clear understanding of the world, and he could even know what the ending of the characters would be.
Once god's perspective was opened, it was destined that he would not be able to view the world in an ordinary way.
Terumi Mei was just a "character", logically speaking, he shouldn't have too much affection for her.
But all of this was out of his control.
After all, he was human and so were they.
"I want to hear and know about the things you have experienced. You don't have to worry about my impression of you changing after I know it. I only believe in the you what I am seeing right now."
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