The Third Round

It had to be admitted: after Naruto, Sasuke, and the others withdrew from the Hokage candidacy, Yuya's third round became rather difficult to handle.

After all...

His original plan for the third round had been to have candidates from neighboring regions compete against one another.

That was to say, two adjacent candidates from the five regions—east, west, south, north, and central—would compete once.

Of course, it was competition in name only; the real purpose was to have them cooperate and jointly develop the regions they were in.

But now that those guys had withdrawn, the third-round assessment definitely could not be carried out that way.

Hmm...

But when did Sasuke get together with Sakura Haruno?

Damn it, he really wanted to hear the gossip...

At the end of Konoha's sixty-eighth year, many things happened.

For instance, while people from the other villages developed their own villages, they also sought Yuya out to purchase follow-up maintenance services for their drones.

They had also realized that although drones were not particularly difficult to develop, there was a prerequisite for using them.

That was, drones needed to rely on signal base stations.

Without a signal, a drone was nothing more than a useless device that could fly but could not transmit images.

As for signal base stations, aside from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, virtually every other village lacked the necessary supporting infrastructure.

Yahiko of the Land of Rain had been furious when he learned this.

But there was nothing he could do.

It was not that he did not want to develop signal base station technology.

However, to build signal base stations capable of allowing drones to transmit reliably, they needed at least technological reserves equivalent to 4G networks.

And they did not have that technology.

That was perfectly normal. Even in