Before long, even before dusk fell, the playground was packed with people signing up.
Kakuzu organized one round of trials after another. There were so many events that it took a full three days and nights to finish them all.
Naturally, the people who qualified for the Olympics were still the usual crowd. This certainly wasn't fixing; Kakuzu had made his decisions based on the qualifying standards Dave had sent him for each event.
Kaguya and Mito, Hagoromo and Hamura, Asura and Indra, Hashirama and Madara, Izuna and Tobirama, Might Wei, Might Duy, Akai, Kagami, Hiruzen, Danzo, Dave, and participants in various other events made up a total of 153 people. Of course, Kakuzu was among them too.
Kakuzu had entered the Finance Competition... Well... it was a rather obscure event, but a few people had still signed up. Of course, none of them could hold a candle to Kakuzu.
So Kakuzu had deservedly earned his place representing Konoha...
Wanting to find out exactly what these events involved ahead of time, Kumogakure's Third Raikage was the first to arrive in Konoha with his entourage, several days early.
"Welcome to Konoha, Third Raikage," Danzo said with a smile, wearing the Hokage's hat as he stood at the entrance and watched the Third Raikage approach.
"Yeah, yeah, welcome, welcome." Dave, who had been dragged over to serve as a laborer, nodded impatiently beside him. For once, his old father had gone off to train, while his mother had gone dancing with Aunt Mito and Kaguya. Dave had planned to spend a lovely day with Tsukimi and their little one, just the three of them, only for that bastard Danzo to drag him here to work.
"Hmph. Hokage, is this how Konoha treats its guests?" Raikage A was the Second Raikage's son and