"Lord Hokage, please sit for a while. I'll go make you some tea."
Anhua rose as he spoke, but Torifu stopped him. "Don't bother. I'll be here for a bit, then I'll leave. Is there any chance this clone might make mistakes while handling official business? Like getting something wrong while reviewing documents?"
Anhua thought back. He didn't think anything like that had happened.
"We haven't found any problems so far. Don't worry, Lord Hokage. I handle all my work very carefully."
Torifu nodded. As long as there were no mistakes, that was fine. This Puppet had been hard to come by, so they couldn't afford to wear it out.
He didn't have the ability to repair Puppets. If this one broke, they would have no choice but to throw it away.
Then they would have to send a clone to handle official business instead.
After that, Torifu left the Hokage Office and headed home.
Anhua and Amado seemed to be getting along well. They had made a good start; now the two of them just had to take things one step at a time.
Torifu had just left the Hokage Building and activated the Breath Concealment Technique to head home when Dan spotted him and came over.
"Lord Hokage, all the ninjas who applied through Anbu to take on missions in Rain Province have been sent out. Their movements are well concealed, and no one will find them."
Torifu nodded. Konoha now had around a thousand Anbu Ninjas.
He remembered that not many had applied to go to Rain Province, only about a hundred—just enough to form a squad.
It wasn't that the Anbu Ninjas didn't care about what was happening in Rain Province. The main reason was that the province was already at capacity. If too many Anbu