Aww, the Land of Snow wasn’t visited by Azarea yet. Kojirou, too, would like to visit that country one day – snow reached one up to their navels up there… as far as he knew. However, Azarea’s life path had taken her to far more places than Kojirou’s had the opportunity to. The Land of Fire and the Land of Fields were relatable to him, and so was the Land of Storms (according to his father), but the Land of Hot Springs? And the Land of Frost? And she’d been overseas to the Land of Waves too!?
Nah, this was outlandish to the swordsman. He hadn’t had the delight of travelling that far yet – he was definitely going to travel far and wide now. He had the means and the strength to deal with further international requests as the pride of the clan, the runner-up to the genius that was Chisai-neechan who probably hid away all her stories of travelling from him. That damn tease…
"Aww damn, I’d love to take a look around Hot Springs though…” Kojirou groaned sadly, leaning back on his bump in defeat. The Land of Snow sounded cold, so he could wait on that, but hot springs were luxurious! Daft it!
"Huh… wait, they got issues against our Lands? Both?” Kojirou asked briefly, noticing that he hadn’t caught up on the Land of Hot Springs’ politics at all. However, Azarea was out in the dreamscape when he spoke, and he got no response back. "… O-Oh, sorryyyyyy… I’ll go to bed, too,” he promised before swiping under his own covers. His cloak got thrown off along with his haori, and after a while, he too was out of commission…
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The bright break of dawn. A new day began. Kojirou was a slightly heavier sleeper than Azarea, so he was still in bed by the time she had taken a bath. Only then did his eyes open, suddenly panicking a little. "W-Wha, where-"
… Oh, wait, that was right, he was on the mission. A sudden case of jetlag, perhaps. Or was it paranoia? How un-used he was to traveling, that poor shinobi…
He quickly took a bath himself, shooing off some peeping toms and getting himself all clean and his scars in top form before joining Azarea with breakfast. He gladly took the other half of the honey stick and flavored his oatmeal before shoveling it into his mouth. Kojirou ended up munching the rest of the honey stick after flavoring the oatmeal as if that was meant to be the common turn of events.
"… Sooooo… does that mean we get to see Shimo no Kuni? I’ve never seen any land covered completely in snow before… hopefully, we can move without water-walking too much *crunch*”
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