Real world.
The midday sun poured in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, laying dappled spots of light on the Tailed Beasts in the backyard.
Three beams of white light suddenly appeared in the courtyard.
Rebecca was the first one to steady herself. The moment her feet touched the ground, she swayed and had to grab Makoto's arm to keep from falling. Although she knew Makoto liked her outfit, she hadn't expected him to like it that much.
Several times, Rebecca felt like that thing was thrusting into her from behind, but it felt like it was about to come out of her throat.
Yukino stood on Makoto's other side, but Makoto wasn't holding her up. After all, she wasn't injured.
Haruno, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed over, hugged Yukino tightly, and rubbed her cheek against Yukino's face. "Yukino-chan! Your sister missed you so much!"
Not having seen her sister for four years, Haruno, the sis-con, was about to go crazy. Seeing people around staring at them, Yukino blushed slightly and hurriedly tried to push Haruno away. "Haruno... that's enough..."
Haruno looked at her sister with teary eyes, an expression that seemed to say, "You don't love me anymore, right?"
Although she knew her older sister was faking it, Yukino finally sighed, raised her hand, and placed it on Haruno's head. "I'm home."
Haruno immediately broke into a satisfied smile. Then, suddenly remembering something, she said with a tone full of sympathy: "You missed out on a fortune, Yukino."
During those years in the Naruto World, the Scroll of Seals contained all the high-level Water Release Ninjutsu left behind by Tobirama.
Yukino's strength was not particularly outstanding among the female players who had already received power-ups, but no one could match her talent in Water Release Ninjutsu.
Learning just one or two techniques would have raised her status within the group. So, in Haruno's view, Yukino not going to the Naruto World was a huge loss.
Yukino blinked, not immediately understanding what her sister meant.
Just then, Mrs. Yukinoshita, wearing a light grey homewear kimono, spoke slowly under the nervous gazes of her two daughters: "Stay for dinner."
The eyes of the Yukinoshita sisters widened more and more. Neither could remember how many years it had been since they had last heard their mother initiate a conversation with them.
At dinner, the dining room had an extra full row of people.
Hinata, Hanabi, Rebecca, Tsunade, Kurenai, Koyuki...
The house was getting livelier and livelier.
Experiences from the Naruto World became the main topic of conversation.
Listening while eating, Yukino finally pieced together the full picture of the Naruto World from her sister and the surrounding conversations.
Honestly, not learning the high-level Water Release from the Scroll of Seals didn't bother her much.
Yukino's gaze swept over Tsunade, Hinata, and the others, lingering on certain key areas for a few extra seconds.
She was more concerned about this.
'Damn. Why were they all so big?'
After looking for a long time, she felt only Hanabi was someone who could barely let Yukino regain some confidence.
But comparing herself to a ten- or eleven-year-old girl was already embarrassing.
Still, fortunately, even compared to the older members, there were still Kaguya and Eriri, those two extraordinary airports, to keep her company.
Yukino withdrew her gaze and took a mouthful of rice.
Then, Yukino recounted her experiences over the years in the One Piece World.
Listening to Yukino describe her experiences, even Utaha, who had previously been most at odds with her, did not interrupt, let alone taunt her.
After all, for most of them, whether it was Naruto or One Piece, those other worlds were basically just realistic game worlds. Most of them treated the natives there as NPCs.
Although they would generally lend a hand when they saw the natives in trouble, expecting them to stay in that world for years to help establish order and such was impossible.
It was like traveling to a poor area and seeing children with no access to education, trapped in the mountains their whole lives.
Normal people would feel sympathy and might even offer financial or spiritual support. But to say they would stay and teach them for ten or twenty years… few could do that.
"You..." Yukino opened her mouth.
"Don't misunderstand. I just acknowledge your actions. Personally, I still don't like you." Utaha turned her head away, not looking at the other.
Seeing the atmosphere become a bit heavy because of the topic, Chika propped her chin in her hands, twirled her eyes, and said with a smile: "Um, where does everyone plan to go next?"
Her voice was very light. "We're about to graduate soon, right? Go to university? Or get a job at the Hero Association?"
The dining room fell silent for a moment.
Everyone suddenly realized that many of those present were already at the age of high school seniors in the real world. Graduation season was just around the corner. Life after leaving school did need to be considered.
Utaha was the first to state her position. "I'm not going to university. I need to finish my [Naruto] novel first."
After seeing the 'Konoha friendship' between Naruto and Sasuke, Utaha had even more inspiration.
Eriri followed closely. "I'm not going either. My doujins... no, I still want to keep drawing manga."
Shirogane Kei said with some regret, "It's a bit of a shame that Utaha-senpai has such good grades and isn't going to university."
Kei herself was about to graduate from middle school. After thinking it over, she decided she still wanted to go to high school. Although a diploma seemed meaningless in the Nishikawa household, if most people had high school diplomas and she stopped after middle school, there would always be an inexplicable feeling of being looked down upon.
Itsuki put down her chopsticks. "I want to go to university. I want to become a teacher."
Itsuki was the one among the five sisters who most admired her mother, Rena. Their mother had been a teacher. This had given Itsuki the desire to become a teacher since she was a child.
Hiyori let out a snort of laughter. "You, a teacher? You're not cut out for it at all, okay?"
Hiyori clearly still remembered the grudge from their fight in the Naruto World.
Itsuki's face turned bright red.
The other four sisters immediately joined forces with her, glaring fiercely at Hiyori.
Hiyori immediately jumped up from her seat, scurried over to Makoto in two steps, and grabbed his arm. "Daddy, look, they're glaring at me~ So scary…"
With that, she buried her face in Makoto's arm, twisting her whole body around.
'Bitch!'
The five Nakano's faces turned from red to purple.
Makoto then remembered that the Nakano quintuplets' grades were all terrible to behold.
In the original work, the five of them combined scored exactly one hundred points… truly quintupled. Not only the man was quintupled, but their scores were too.
The most pitiful among them was Itsuki. The other four sisters had no enthusiasm for studying. Only she actually studied seriously. But her grades just wouldn't improve.
Makoto thought for a moment and said, "You don't necessarily have to teach subjects like Literature or math. You could start a superpower school in the future. You could be a teacher there too."
Itsuki's eyes immediately lit up.
Times had changed. More and more people were being chosen by the Reincarnation Game without knowing it and sent to other worlds.
Fewer than one in ten returned, but the special population of people with superpowers was expanding rapidly.
These people needed to be organized.
Although Itsuki couldn't teach Literature or math, she had developed the Wind-Wind Fruit quite well.
At the very least, she was more than capable of being a teacher at a superpower school, instructing those third-rate ability users.
Itsuki dashed out from her seat, ran around the table, hugged Makoto tightly, and pressed her face against his chest. "Thank you—!!"
Watching this scene, although Yukino tried hard to restrain herself, she couldn't help but let a trace of envy show in her eyes.
And this change in her was precisely observed by her mother and sister.