Eat or Not?

"Two hundred million. I'll pay."

Since this was all a misunderstanding, Renye naturally would not refuse.

Two hundred million was truly nothing to him.

"Then thank you." A smile bloomed across Hiruzen Sarutobi's face. "Once I finish handling the political affairs, I'll treat you all to a meal!"

Looking at the pile of documents on the desk, Renye said irritably, "You'll be lucky if you get off work before dark."

Konoha had not been nearly this large in the original story. Even back then, processing documents took a long time, let alone in the rapidly developing Konoha of today.

One Hokage alone simply did not have enough hands to handle all the paperwork.

Konoha might have been called a village, but its population numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

A mountain of things happened every day. No wonder the documents could never be cleared...

"I'll try to speed things up." Hiruzen Sarutobi smiled bitterly, knowing full well that he could not finish all the documents before nightfall.

If he had known this would happen, he should not have let Danzo talk him into it back then. He could have enjoyed retirement early, yet he had ended up in such a miserable state.

What a regret!

It seemed he needed to put retirement on the agenda. Otherwise, one day, he might really drop dead from overwork in the office...

"If it really doesn't work, hire a few people to help you handle official business."

Renye said this somewhat reluctantly.

He was genuinely afraid that Hiruzen would die young in the office. If that happened, Sarutobi Shin'nosuke and Sarutobi Asuma would become orphans.

Hiruzen Sarutobi fell silent for a moment, but ultimately shook his head.

"Forget it. I can handle it alone."

Seeing this, Renye said nothing more.

He could roughly guess