Early that morning at Konoha's main gate, a special visitor arrived: a mounted soldier who had rushed from the capital, claiming he had an urgent matter to report to the Hokage.
The various rebel factions within the Land of Fire had originally amounted to nothing, but for some unknown reason, they suddenly captured several cities in succession, winning battle after battle as they bore down on the capital of the Land of Fire with unstoppable momentum!
This caught General Oda completely off guard. Every fallen city had been heavily defended. Even an elite army would need at least half a month to take one, yet these rebels, made up of refugees and rioters, should never have possessed such strength.
The only explanation was that powerful ninja were among the rebels!
And in a war involving ninja, ordinary people had virtually no means of resistance. They could only seek Konoha's aid.
After Shin heard the messenger's report, he merely had someone take the soldier away to rest.
Then he returned home and went back to sleep.
Winter had arrived, and the temperature was dropping rapidly. Shin no longer wanted to leave his warm bed in the mornings.
There was no air conditioning in this world, nor was there central heating.
Shin could regulate the temperature around himself through vibration, but that required a constant expenditure of Chakra and energy.
He wondered whether he could add temperature-control capabilities to the Sunlight Tower, allowing Konoha to remain pleasantly temperate all year round. It seemed worth trying.
But Shin had no time to research it now. He still had far too many matters to attend to every day.
The respective progress of the mechanical science and biological science institutes, plans for expanding the village, plans for bringing commerce into Konoha's future new city, and