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As noon approached, the Fourth Hokage, who had been busy for most of the day, returned home.

Ever since becoming Hokage, Minato Namikaze's time with his family had drastically decreased. Therefore, even brief meal times like this were to be cherished even more.

Furthermore, as Minato Namikaze had only recently become Hokage, he was unfamiliar with political affairs and various tasks, far from being as adept as the Third Hokage. He had to spend a significant amount of time studying. Thus, even though he was only home for lunch, he still brought several documents with him.

At the dining table.

Minato Namikaze ate while reviewing a report.

"Since we've entered a tacit state of truce with Sunagakure and Kirigakure, the pressure on the front lines has significantly eased. Additionally, Iwagakure doesn't have the capacity to continuously push through the Land of the Falls and the Land of Grass to launch a major invasion of the Land of Fire; Kumogakure's forces in the Land of Rice are also not as aggressive as before...

It can be said that although the war has not ended, from the Hokage's perspective, we must start considering post-war matters from now on."

Currently, all the nations were very weak, so the trend towards ending the war was evident. Precisely because of this grand political situation and to prevent any further disturbances in the process of ending the war, some "minor matters" were deliberately ignored... such as the recent incident of a Kirigakure squad infiltrating the Land of Fire.

"Suddenly talking about the post-war period, I feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start."

The young red-haired woman placed the last bowl of soup on the table and then asked this question.

She was quite understanding and did not stop Minato Namikaze from working at home.

Just as she was about to sit down, Minato Namikaze immediately stood up, pulled out a chair from the dining table, and pushed a high stool next to the table.

"First, there's the issue of the ninja, isn't there? A large number of ninja died during the war, which on one hand has weakened the village, and on the other hand has caused a gender imbalance... Regardless, far more male ninja died than female ninja."

"Population growth?"

The population issue was indeed a major national policy. The number of ninja essentially concerned the survival of a ninja village.

Encouraging marriage and increasing the population after the war was indeed a common practice.

"For something like this, someone needs to set an example... How about Kakashi? And for the sake of encouraging remarriage, it would be best to find him a suitable marriage partner."

Kakashi Hatake was indeed Minato Namikaze's direct disciple. Minato's words seemed to imply he wanted to find a suitable widow for Kakashi.

"...Minato, sometimes your ideas are really off the wall."

"No, no, I'm just worried about Kakashi's mental state recently... Oh, right, for the next matter, let him help out."

Kakashi was indeed worth worrying about, as he had the look of someone destined to remain single his entire life.

Meanwhile, Yuhara had just finished a brief exchange with the retired old man, who soon left.

Yuhara's ideals sounded grand, but what was the retired old man's reaction? The answer was, not much. Yuhara's remarks were startling at first glance, but what was the point of a Genin saying such things? Imagination is guiltless because imagination is meaningless. When Yuhara can become a high-ranking official, then he can talk about such ideals.

Moreover, for Yuhara at this moment, rather than wanting to fight for the rights of civilian ninja, he simply disliked clan ninja. Although there wasn't much difference between these two ideas, if one had to point out a subtle difference... well, it mainly reflected a difference in a person's perspective and breadth of vision.

However, human tragedy lies here: hatred and anger are far stronger driving forces in life than kindness and dedication.

After sitting on the bench for a while longer, Yuhara stood up, preparing to tidy himself up as the old man had requested.

However, he first went to the ninja tool shop he had visited before to replenish the mercury he had lost. Based on his previous combat experience, he realized there was no need to carry so many weapons, so he changed the specifications of his "Sword Crate," reducing the carrying capacity... specifically, he changed it to carry only one "Sword Crate" of 8x25x140, half of which was iron and the other half filled with mercury.

This way, at least what he carried looked like a ninja tool, instead of looking like he was carrying a cracked coffin board as before.

After replenishing the mercury, Yuhara was about to leave. However, perhaps because the shop owner was not satisfied with just selling raw materials to his old customer, he called out to him.

"Customer, do you need any of those high-grade ninja tools?"

"High-grade ninja tools?"

Yuhara was a little confused. Weren't explosive tags high-grade enough?

"Yes, like Chakra Blades, for example."

"Chakra Blades?" Now Yuhara was a bit interested, "Can I see one?"

"Of course."

The shop owner carefully handed a weapon that looked no different from an ordinary kunai to Yuhara. Then, Yuhara attempted to release his chakra, and immediately his chakra was conducted through the kunai.

A Chakra Blade was essentially still an iron blade. The difference from ordinary ninja tools should lie in the different atomic arrangement. The subtle gaps between atoms seemed just right to allow chakra to pass through...

After a brief test, Yuhara returned the item directly to the shop owner. "How much is this kunai?"

"Very cheap, 200,000 Ryo."

"..."

Could he open a dictionary and properly look up the definition of "cheap"?

"Not interested."

Yuhara waved his hand and then walked away.

Not long after he left the ninja tool shop, he directly pulled a kunai from the "Sword Crate" behind him and happily tossed it up and caught it... Yuhara seemed to have found a way to make money. How could he not have thought of such a simple method before?

Not just a way to make money, but a true path to wealth.

With an exceptionally cheerful mood, Yuhara entered a barbershop to deal with his overgrown, weed-like hair.

He then made an exceptionally arrogant request to Konoha's Tony teachers.

"Do you know Konoha's genius ninja, Kakashi Hatake?"

"Mm, he's the Fourth Hokage's disciple, right? I've seen him before, I have some impression."

"Alright then, give me the hairstyle of Kakashi Hatake, the genius ninja of Konoha, but even more genius than his father, Konoha White Fang, Kagami Uchiha."

"...Sir, please slow down, I didn't quite catch that."

At this point, he had already untied Yuhara's hair and was about to toss the item in his hand aside when Yuhara spoke up to stop him.

"Oh, this hair tie is to be returned to me."

"Apologies, is this something of great importance?"

"No, it's just an ordinary item I received from someone I met by chance, but I'm not planning on discarding it."

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