Obito and Yunshan's Chance Encounter!

On the morning of his second day in Konoha, the samurai known as Takemoto Yunshan walked the village streets alone.

Last night, he had the great honor of being hosted by the Fourth Hokage, Kizaru.

The two of them, accompanied by Nara Shikaku, had shared dinner together.

During the meal, which felt almost like a private family gathering, Kizaru extended an invitation for Yunshan to join Konoha and become a member of the future government of the Land of Light.

Of course, as a minor samurai with only modest talent, he could not expect to enter the central departments of Konoha directly.

The position Kizaru offered was that of a magistrate for a city in the Land of Fire.

While such a post was insignificant to the central administration of Konoha, it was already a formidable office for an ordinary person like Yunshan.

More importantly, this position was offered by the Fourth Hokage, Kizaru, the most powerful man in the Land of Light.

As long as he performed his duties well as a magistrate, his future promotion and advancement were all but guaranteed.

Faced with such a windfall, anyone else would have been ecstatic and accepted immediately.

They might even have pledged their life and loyalty on the spot.

But Yunshan did not; he neither accepted nor refused, instead asking for time to consider.

It was not that the samurai was being coy; he was simply held back by his loyalty to Zhushan and his pending marriage to Hanako, making it difficult to make a decision lightly.

At the table, the Fourth Hokage had also made one point clear: if he were to take the post, he would have to separate from the Takemoto Clan. He could not serve as a magistrate in a city where the clan resided, nor