"That's pretty good. Three months is neither too long nor too short, so there shouldn't be any major problems."
Hiruzen nodded after hearing that. "I'm just worried it'll have too great an impact on the villagers' livelihoods."
Torikaze sighed as well. "Sigh, there's nothing to be done about that. I don't want their livelihoods to be cut off either."
"Once the construction of New City is finished, their incomes will rise even more. That should make up for the losses of the past three months."
Konoha had to build New City. It was not something one or two people could change. The villagers could only follow the village's overall direction; he had never heard of villagers being able to alter their village's course of development.
"The villagers have been quite cooperative, and no one on our side has been slacking off. Everyone's been working incredibly hard."
Torikaze naturally knew that. He could see that everyone was giving it their all, and there were no major issues in other respects.
The overall framework had already been laid out.
One area was nearly complete, and the workers inside were gradually withdrawing and moving on to other areas.
"While the buildings can be put up quickly, the finishing work afterward will still take time. Lord Torikaze, you need to be prepared for that. Laying electrical lines and water pipes will also take time. If we compress the schedule as much as possible, it'll take around two months."
Torikaze thought about it. Five months? That would put them roughly in the middle of the year.
"That's not too far from our expectations. It's acceptable. Let's proceed like that."
Hiruzen had more or less reported everything to Torikaze. "Also, when it comes to scenery, garden landscapes definitely can't be completed overnight. It won't be very