Konoha 70 and the New Generation

Shisui had won the first round of the election by such a large margin because of the consistent way he had conducted himself throughout his many years in office.

Shisui was the type who made no mistakes while in office.

So when some people who had no idea who Shisui was saw his name on the list of Hokage candidates, they looked him up online. Oh? They could actually find information on him? Let's see, what kind of résumé qualified someone to become a Hokage candidate?

Then they checked—and damn, he'd been an official for over a decade?

Then they looked up his record. His annual evaluations had basically been above A every year. That was no small feat.

The identities of Konoha's civil servants could be found online.

It was just that Konoha's Inner City and Outer City had a combined population of over ten million, with more than a hundred thousand civil servants alone. The number was simply too enormous, so no one had the time to look up every civil servant's information one by one.

But after Shisui became a Hokage candidate, people were bound to investigate him.

And so, Shisui's résumé naturally became public.

Over the past decade or so, Shisui had risen step by step from a low-ranking civil servant to where he stood today. It had to be said that he had every reason to be proud.

But it still wasn't enough.

For Shisui...

Everything he was doing now... still wasn't good enough.

Not enough... to make him a Hokage as respected as Yuya.

The first universal vote in Konoha's Inner City had ended, yet the atmosphere within the Hyuga family was far from gloomy.

Because...

"Ooh, there, there, little Boruto. It's Grandpa~ Grandpa's right here~"

Hyuga Hiashi, whose sideburns had already begun