Konoha Council

The Konoha Jonin Meeting was already an old tradition.

It was a system meant to embody the village's democratic nature, but not too thoroughly.

To be specific, it was a representative system—either a parliamentary monarchy or a parliamentary democracy—in which the actual rights exceeded those of the monarch or president, while the monarch or president was merely the nominal head of state.

During the Third Hokage's era, the Third was constrained by the Jonin Meeting. But during the era of the Fourth Hokage, Princess Tsunade, the village had basically become a one-woman show.

At the Hokage administration building at the very top of the village stood a massive conference hall.

On the huge, theater-like fan-shaped tiers, it was not only ninjas who stood densely packed.

There were even more representatives of all kinds.

Konoha had already become a country. Its scale could no longer be compared with that of the old ninja village era.

The meeting, which continued for several days, dealt with the country's daily livelihood issues.

One three-dimensional projection after another went dark and vanished inside the conference hall.

A Genjutsu Projection was an illusion directly projected into reality. Even without establishing a connection with Mimi, one could still see it.

Only after the representatives from across the country had gradually gone offline did the next part begin in earnest. The people who remained were all Konoha's core members.

Since they were in Konoha rather than stationed across the country due to their posts, this meeting did not completely adopt an online format.

Naturally, the first was the Fourth Hokage, Tsunade.

Many years had passed, but time had not carved many traces onto her face. She looked like a big sister in her early twenties—mature, but not fully ripe.

Sitting in the main seat with great authority, she