When Xinyu learned that Ran was troubled over this matter, she explained it to him.
"Everyone may be on holiday, but many people will volunteer to stay behind, working at the Hokage Tower, ensuring the village's safety, and so on."
"As for our work, Lord Torikaze has a puppet specifically for handling all sorts of miscellaneous affairs. It will temporarily take over, and it can usually do everything perfectly."
"Something like that exists? I've never heard of it!"
Xinyu smiled. She was not mocking Ran. "How long have you even been here? That puppet is hardly ever used, and it looks exactly like Lord Torikaze. You wouldn't be able to tell them apart."
Ran smacked his lips. "All right, then I'm relieved. Otherwise, I'd really be afraid that after the holiday, the documents piled up would be taller than the Hokage Tower."
Following Ran's train of thought, Xinyu imagined it as well. She absolutely did not want to see such a scene.
Ran had been here for a month now, and during that time, he had become extremely familiar with Konoha.
The more he worked here, the more Ran felt that Konoha was truly rather incredible.
Applications that seemed utterly impossible to approve in his eyes did not seem like much to Xinyu, and she approved them with ease.
Whenever that happened, Ran felt that Konoha was incredibly wealthy.
Xinyu would casually say, "We support everyone's dreams, after all. Besides, they look pretty promising."
To be honest, Ran felt that nearly half the applications would have no future prospects at all.
Yet Xinyu was willing to give them a chance.
He truly did not understand it, but Xinyu was the Lord Hokage's secretary after all, so Ran did not concern himself with it.
Later, once he gradually got the hang