After Hiroki's position as Hokage had been confirmed, the remaining procedures were finalized with astonishing speed.
This included the time and location of the Hokage inauguration ceremony, along with all sorts of miscellaneous details. The Third continued to oversee nearly all of it, while Hiroki did not participate in those arrangements.
Or rather, those matters were not worth Hiroki handling personally.
Now that his position as Hokage had been established before everyone else, Hiroki's remaining task was to strengthen himself and begin devising strategies against the enemies of the future...
Orochimaru's underground laboratory.
Hiroki had not spent time in this place for a long while.
The last time he had been here was before the shinobi war against Madara Uchiha.
Hiroki found a blackboard in the laboratory and wrote down one name after another.
Namikaze Minato, Jiraiya, Nagato, Obito, Itachi, Shisui, Kabuto...
Hiroki did not know who had attacked him in the future and caused time and space to rewind, but it did not matter. He had read the Naruto manga. Among the named characters in Naruto, there were only a small handful with sufficiently outstanding shinobi talent to become Kage—or even surpass the Kage level...
He only needed to list them one by one and analyze them.
First was Homecoming Minato. What made Homecoming Minato so absurd was the permanent nature of his Flying Thunder God marks. In the original shinobi war, Minato had even demonstrated through practical use that Homecoming Minato was possible.
The bigger problem with him was that if he could not be killed in a single attempt, Hiroki would likely face relentless sneak attacks at all hours.
And the Flying Thunder God's extreme mobility meant it would be difficult for him to keep up with and catch Minato.
This exposed his first weakness.
Hiroki could