Chapter 43
Tsunade laughed arrogantly.
Haruto Saito, who had been kicked into the lake, did not get up. Instead, his head remained submerged, with only his back floating above the water, resembling a lifeless corpse.
"Huh?" Tsunade sensed something was off and blinked. "He didn't actually drown, did he?" She took a step forward, about to pull him up, but suddenly froze in place, her eyes widening in shock.
Haruto's body in the water had already started to dissolve, rapidly turning into liquid and merging with the lake.
"Water Clone! You—when did you—? Impossible!" Tsunade gasped in disbelief, swiftly turning to scan the surroundings. With her level of skill, she had failed to detect anything unusual.
"I've told you a hundred times, I can smell your scent from eight hundred meters away." The real Haruto Saito emerged from behind the wooden house, rubbing his nose as he spoke. "Can't you change your perfume? How do you expect to complete missions like this? The moment you get near another village to steal intelligence, they'd notice you right at the gate."
Haruto was simply teasing her. Just because he was sensitive to smells didn't mean everyone else was.
"How can your Water Clone be so perfect?" Tsunade asked, a bit disgruntled.
How embarrassing!
She had planned to pull a prank on him, yet she had been the one tricked instead.
"Because I'm a genius!" Haruto spread his hands, as if it were obvious. Of course, that was just nonsense. The truth was that his jutsu came from ability cards. The techniques granted by the cards might not be the strongest or most refined, but their fundamental structure was undoubtedly perfect.