Konoha, streets,
Nara Dan gave Shikaku and Yakushi Nonō time off,
then went out to wander the streets of Konoha, wanting to see how the village had changed over the past year.
Nara Dan stepped out of the Hokage Building, and the guards beside the entrance hurriedly bowed.
"Lord Fourth..."
Though they found it a little strange that the Fourth Hokage had suddenly changed clothes and now had some markings on his forehead,
they dared not speculate or say anything out of respect for the Hokage.
What they didn't know was that the Fourth they usually protected and the Fourth standing before them were not the same person at all.
Nara Dan glanced back at the completely renovated Hokage Building.
During peacetime, the population had grown rapidly, and Konoha's economy had developed. More and more people were gathering around the village.
With land in short supply, building upward had naturally become the best choice.
The Hokage Building had kept pace with the times. It now stood a full fourteen stories tall, and an elevator had been installed.
It was also the tallest building in Konoha.
Of course, there was nothing stopping other buildings from being made taller. But the Hokage Building held extraordinary political significance, and no fool would dare build something higher than it.
Besides,
Nara Dan looked at Konoha's newly built, unevenly rising buildings.
He knew that most of them had been funded and constructed by Konoha's Department of Internal Affairs, with the Scientific Research Department also involved.
The Third Kazekage's Human Puppet Magnet Release had been particularly useful, especially for infrastructure projects. It was practically a super crane, and even more flexible.
So the Third Kazekage had handled most of the steel framework and foundations.
Using another village's Kage's abilities to build infrastructure for one's own village