Konoha Year 41, October 1st.
Before the Land of Ninja was officially declared, all three hundred thousand citizens had to cast their two precious votes.
As soon as the sun rose, countless people headed out for the polling stations on their respective streets.
Through the internet, everyone could use their phones and computers to watch the vote counts in real time.
The first to pull far ahead was the Third Raikage, who had spent a fortune fabricating data.
"Why are there only twenty thousand?" Staying in the Cloud Hidden Province, he angrily called his new business partner.
"Sorry~ They suddenly backed out, so there was nothing I could do~"
"Refund me!!!"
"Certainly~"
Not long after he hung up, a text message arrived.
After deducting the votes of twenty thousand people, the ten-million deposit returned to him was exactly two million short.
According to the Third Raikage's original plan, one hundred thousand votes should have been more than enough to secure a seat as a councilor.
Yet it was nearly eight o'clock, and his vote count had not even passed twenty-five thousand.
In Konoha Province, Kushina happily showed Minato the two million in her account.
"Isn't it a little wrong to keep fleecing the same sheep?"
"What are you afraid of~?" Kushina hugged her phone happily. "What's wrong with a business that costs nothing?"
Minato thought about it and decided they were not sucking the people dry, so he nodded in approval of her "chivalrous deed."
Buying votes? Nothing of the sort.
The Third Raikage's initial twenty thousand votes had actually all come from the Cloud Hidden Province.
As for why there were so few...
He was probably just unpopular.
"Uh, why is Shin's name on there too?"
"Huh? So is Senior Nao's."
The two exchanged looks, both finding it