Honestly, it was finally over!
His stomach was completely empty, and the craving for food slowly welled up. Chiba gradually straightened his body and pushed aside the piled-up documents at hand, revealing the long scroll spread open in his other hand, part of it buried beneath the stack of files.
He had finally finished summarizing everything from the morning. In the afternoon, he would go to the archives.
Letting out a soft breath, Chiba pulled out the scroll and read through it once more. After confirming there were no mistakes, he slowly relaxed.
It was already close to one o'clock. For more than three hours, Chiba had barely taken a sip of water or moved a single step away from his desk, throwing himself entirely into sorting out the budget bills. As for other matters, such as today's routine intelligence reports, there had been no major developments, so he had not organized them. The General Affairs Department's other daily expenses were about the same as yesterday's and posed no problems, so he had ignored them. All his attention had been focused on these suddenly delivered budget bills for the expansion project.
In the end, the result was quite satisfying. He had finally handled everything before the afternoon, which meant he would have time to visit the archives.
Otherwise, who knew when his plan to go to the archives would become reality? Now that he was sitting in the position of acting Hokage Assistant, he could not do whatever he wanted as he had before. Work still took top priority. Even Chiba could not afford to take the importance of this assistant position lightly.
And if these bills kept him from going today, who knew whether another pile like this would arrive tomorrow, whether it would go on endlessly like this?