Especially the Uchiha clan members—they came by every few days to ask, making Tsunade want to punch someone.
"Because Lord Hokage has indeed been away for rather a long time."
The smile vanished from Uchiha Diqin's face as she looked out at the sky beyond the window.
She had initially expected it to take one month. But then two months passed, and Uchiha Diqin comforted herself that he would be back soon. Yet three months went by without any sign of his return—then four months, then five!
Now, a full half year had passed, and there was still no trace of Ronglin.
Even Tsunade had begun to feel uneasy after half a year. If not for Katsuyu, who allowed them to stay in contact at any time and confirmed that Ronglin was still training, Tsunade would have been unable to sit still long ago.
They could hold on, but what about everyone else?
The Hokage had been absent for half a year. Could they really brush that off with a simple claim that he was taking a long time because he was busy training?
It was already fortunate that people had not lined up one by one to ask. Even the Third Hokage had circled around the matter several times under the pretext of educational issues, let alone everyone else.
Over the past half year, Konoha had not changed much in terms of development. Although they had more and more money, development projects required Ronglin's personal approval before they could begin. Tsunade did not dare make those decisions on her own, so she had put them on hold.
The problems within the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth had been resolved. The enemies who had infiltrated their territories had been completely wiped out in the second month after