After taking a curious glance, Mu Yue paid it no further attention.
After all, the rewards could be claimed at any time and would not disappear. There was no need to claim them in a setting like this.
Mu Yue's inauguration speech was not long. He finished in three minutes.
At last, amid the applause and cheers of the civilians and ninjas, the Fourth Hokage's inauguration ceremony officially came to an end.
The civilians and lower-ranking ninjas dispersed, while the jonin followed the higher-ups to the large conference room to prepare for a meeting.
Along the way, every ninja who saw Mu Yue respectfully addressed him as Fourth Hokage.
When Mu Yue reached the conference room doors, the Anbu guards waiting there opened them. Mu Yue entered first, Hiruzen Sarutobi followed half a step behind, and everyone else trailed after them.
Mu Yue then took the seat of honor. Hiruzen Sarutobi sat to his right, while Mitokado Homura sat to his left.
Since everyone had been notified in advance, the jonin had not left. Before long, all of them had arrived.
"Starting today, Minato Namikaze will serve as Hokage Advisor." As soon as the meeting began, Mu Yue dropped a bombshell.
Many jonin revealed surprised expressions.
Everyone knew that Mu Yue's succession as Hokage would leave the Hokage Advisor position vacant, but they had not expected him to promote Minato Namikaze to it.
Most of them had assumed that either Hiruzen Sarutobi would hold the position concurrently, or that a ninja on the level of Orochimaru or Tsunade would take it.
After all, Minato Namikaze had only recently been promoted to head of the Jonin Corps. He had not accomplished anything particularly noteworthy, so he should not have received such an exceptional promotion.
The jonin instinctively looked toward the other