"Tsunade-sama, Tsunade-sama!"

Shizune ran through the wooden hallway of the inn, opened the door to Tsunade’s room, calling out to her as she slept.

"Something bad has happened, Tsunade-sama!"

Ignoring that Tsunade was asleep, she directly shook her awake from her slumber.

"What is it, it’s Shizune... So noisy so early in the morning, can’t I sleep a bit longer?"

Tsunade rubbed her eyes, looked at the just risen sun outside the window, and her expression turned slightly displeased.

"Isn’t it time to talk about such things?"

"What happened? You kept saying something bad... Is it the end of the world?"

Tsunade, still groggy, was about to lie back down for another nap.

"Please be serious, Tsunade-sama, something major happened to the village!"

Shizune’s face was serious, pulling Tsunade’s arm, stopping her from lying down.

Tsunade frowned, "I said you..."

Seeing Shizune’s exceedingly earnest expression, it seemed she wasn’t joking.

Tsunade woke up a bit more, didn’t directly ask Shizune about the major event, but stood up and walked out of the room.

"Tsunade-sama, where are you going?"

"Wait here for me, I’m going out to buy a newspaper."

"Newspaper? At this time..."

Before Shizune could say anything, Tsunade’s figure had already disappeared down the hallway outside.

Shizune could only sigh helplessly, waiting quietly in the room for Tsunade to return with the newspaper.

It didn’t take long; about a few minutes later, Tsunade walked in from outside holding a newspaper.

As soon as she entered the room, she walked towards the cabinet in the corner, opened the drawer, and took out a piece of paper.

"Is this the lottery ticket that Tsunade-sama bought a while ago? What’s the point of looking at this?"

Shizune looked puzzled.

"To me, this is the divine artifact for predicting good and bad omens."

Tsunade replied to Shizune with a solemn face.

Then she picked up the lottery ticket, compared it with the winning numbers published in the newspaper, and her body stiffened.

"All? All matched!?"

Shizune widened her eyes.

Seeing the numbers on the lottery ticket perfectly match the winning numbers published in the newspaper, following Tsunade for so long, it was her first time seeing Tsunade win such a big prize.

Because in normal times, the words "winning" always seemed unrelated to Tsunade.

"I think I understand what level of bad news your ’something bad has happened’ refers to."

Tsunade smiled bitterly.

To her, winning the lottery meant bad things were going to happen.

The larger the prize amount, the worse the situation.

"A prize amount of 150 million Ryo, it’s truly a disaster looming."

Tsunade sighed.

"Tsunade-sama..."

Tsunade waved her hand and said:

"Forget it, no matter how bad it gets, it can’t be that bad. Tell me, what’s happening in the village?"

Tsunade was mentally prepared for bad things to happen in the village.

But she couldn’t think of what could possibly happen to the village.

Surely it couldn’t be the Hidden Cloud Village breaking through the eastern defenses of the Land of Fire and invading Konoha Main Branch directly?

"Orochimaru-sama has defected."

Shizune took a deep breath and told Tsunade the news of Orochimaru’s defection.

This news had spread across major countries, but since they were on vacation and mingling in a remote small country, they received the news a bit later.

After Shizune finished speaking, she looked at Tsunade worriedly.

After all, Orochimaru was Tsunade’s close friend from childhood, a companion who had once faced life and death together... The impact of this incident on Tsunade was imaginable.

Sure enough, upon hearing this news, Tsunade felt her mind buzzing, blank inside.

"What did you say? Orochimaru... he defected from the village? Are you joking..."

It wasn’t that Tsunade didn’t believe it, but such a thing was truly unbelievable to her.

Suddenly, her heart felt like it was being torn apart, painfully so.

This feeling of betrayal reminded her of that betrayal five or six years ago.

Her once trusted student also suddenly defected from the village back then.

Now Orochimaru walked the same path... Tsunade wanted to personally question Orochimaru, why he did this.

But reason told her there must be something behind this.

A guy like Orochimaru couldn’t possibly betray the village for no reason, there must be more to it.

"It’s absolutely true, Tsunade-sama. Orochimaru-sama has conducted human experiments on village ninjas, harming many innocent lives. After the incident was revealed, he fled the village. Now he’s just like Senior Hakushi, a dangerous S-Class Renegade Ninja."

Shizune also sighed with a complex expression.

"Damn it! What the hell is that bastard Orochimaru doing?"

Tsunade’s fist without hesitation smashed into the ground.

With a crunch, the whole inn began to tremble, a shockingly exaggerated crack extending towards the courtyard wall, until the wall also split into two, and it still didn’t stop extending.

Shizune swallowed, this kind of strength, if the fist hit a human body, it would be a fatal punch.

"Teacher Sarutobi, where is he? Why did he allow Orochimaru to leave the village?"

Tsunade’s eyes at this moment were filled with anger.

"Hokage-sama... I heard that he got injured while intercepting Orochimaru-sama."

"That old fool!"

Tsunade roared in fury, and Shizune was also frightened by Tsunade’s expression burning with anger at this moment.