"I hereby announce that, following a vote by all jonin, Konoha officially appoints Sawada Hiroki as the Fourth Hokage of Konoha!"
"Was Konoha really changing this quickly back then?" Obito asked the teacher beside him in a low voice.
His voice carried a trace of unconcealed shock and wonder.
This was Konoha.
But...
It also seemed unlike the Konoha he remembered.
They stood on a slope that could... barely still be called a "mountain," looking down at the village below—a village that retained some of its old-fashioned simplicity, yet already pulsed everywhere with the air of change.
This was Konoha... but it was Konoha from fifteen years ago.
Compared to the "smart city" they had left behind, the village before them was as backward as some rural little town.
There were no skyscrapers piercing the clouds, no Flying Thunder God buses hovering in the air while waiting for passengers, and not even... the standard "chakra network terminals" found in every household had appeared yet.
Everything looked more or less like what he had learned about in his history classes.
He could even clearly make out that the area being planned in the center of the village was the prototype of the future "Central Transportation Hub"; and the construction sounds coming from the Ninja Academy were for the first batch of civilian school districts later known as a "milestone in educational reform."
Everything was like a yellowed old photo album slowly opening before his eyes. Every scene corresponded to a chapter in his history textbooks—familiar, yet distant.
Obito's gaze slowly swept across the entire village before finally settling on the huge cluster of sheds in the eastern outskirts.
"Oh... so that's the starting point of the legendary 'First Agricultural Revolution.'" Obito's tone held a touch of understanding and nostalgia. "The history