Ino said, "What you all have said makes sense. We will maintain the previous principles; we will not participate in their wars. However, I also have my own demands."
She changed the subject, addressing the group, "Konoha needs a larger population. We will no longer be a mere ninja village; we want to build our home into a city, a super city. We must develop existing resources, open our gates, and absorb all kinds of talent. We welcome anyone with a skill. For those who want to become ninja, as long as they identify with the Will of Fire, we welcome them as well."
Her word was the final command. The group had little room to question her. Reforming the original system and opening the village gates—these were things she had been doing ever since taking office.
Many people said that the Lighthouse Nation of her previous life was a military-industrial complex cloaked in the guise of a country, a super company. There was some truth to that.
Due to historical reasons, it was impossible for Konoha to dispatch troops to wipe out the Five Great Nations, spend a vast amount of time on a unification war, unify weights and measures, build roads, and then develop the economy. It was unnecessary, and it was meaningless.
Using a soft knife to shear the meat, absorbing the other parties' talents and elites into the ninja village system, and managing Konoha like a company—whether those daimyo agreed or not was actually irrelevant.
Ino's focus had long since moved past those fellows riding in ox carts.
She went to work in the morning, and in the afternoon, she slipped away.
She was the Hokage; no one managed her attendance anyway.
She came to the back mountain and began training alone.
"Ah—!"
"Ya—!"
"Ha—!"
She exerted force continuously, pushing the energy within her body to the extreme to maintain the Super Otsutsuki state.
When she fought Frieza that day, facing an Emperor of the Universe who had lost half his body and half his heart, the reason she hurriedly acted to blow up the planet was partly due to Black-clothed Bardock. But another reason was that she could not maintain this Super Otsutsuki transformation state for long.
When she blew up Planet Namek, she had already fallen from her peak battle power of 90 million down to 70 million. This state degraded too quickly.
Returning to Konoha, when she entered the Super Otsutsuki state again, she no longer needed five Otsutsuki to transmit chakra to her. However, to maintain it for a long time, she rarely but diligently began round after round of bitter training.
If her stamina wasn't enough, she added points to "Body"; if her control was insufficient, she added points to "Seal"... Now, her attributes had basically all broken through 20 points.
From 10 points to 11 points, it cost 5 Scapegoat Points. From 11 points to 12 points, it cost 6 Scapegoat Points. Every time she added points, it was nearly a doubling in improvement. The current 20 points were unknown times stronger than the initial 10 points.
A few days ago, she secretly slipped out, transforming into Frieza's appearance to destroy several colonial planets, then transformed into the appearances of Vegeta and Nappa to cause trouble everywhere. Even so, the Scapegoat Points were still not enough...
While training, she would also use the ability of the golden Rinnegan's right eye to extract her projection from previous time fragments to observe.
At this moment, there was another her before her eyes—the version of her that had just absorbed the chakra of five Otsutsuki, increasing her base battle power by six times to reach the realm of Super Otsutsuki.
The Ino in the time fragment couldn't see the current Ino, but since this was time that had already been experienced, she could conversely observe the state from that time, constantly making corrections and engaging in simulation learning.
Ino even imposed 100 times gravity upon herself. Bearing the immense pressure, she trained bitterly, sweating like rain, to improve her base battle power.
Seeing her risking her life like this, Hinata would also come over to help her train. Under the immense gravity, without using the various abilities belonging to the Otsutsuki and Supreme Kai, Ino was often truly not Hinata's match when relying solely on physical strength.
After completing another day of training, just as the sun was about to set, she stopped exercising. With a wave of her hand, a towel in the distance automatically flew into her grasp, and she wiped away her sweat.
"What is it?" she asked the air with a great air of pretension.
The increasingly portly Choji ran over, scratching his head. "Today, the Police Force received reports from many villagers. The garbage on the streets hasn't been cleaned up for a long time. The complaints have reached the Police Force, so..."
Ino raised an eyebrow slightly. Her first reaction was that Naruto had taken the village's money and then not done the work, slacking off during working hours. But then she felt that was unlikely.
With Naruto's personality, he was absolutely wholeheartedly serving Konoha. It had nothing to do with who was Hokage. His ninja way of doing what he said was not fake; he would definitely accomplish what he personally promised.
She turned around and asked, "Has something happened to Naruto?"
"Huh?" The fat man was stunned. He had been dealing with complaints from all over the place all day and hadn't thought about Naruto at all.
"I... I don't know."
"Let's go. We'll go over together and take a look."
Ino draped the Hokage robe over her shoulders and beckoned the fat man to keep up. The two walked quickly to Naruto's new home.
Naruto had married Shion and moved out of Minato Namikaze's home early on.
Just as the two arrived at the door, they found it ajar and knew that something had indeed happened.
Shion, the Priestess of the Land of Demons, was currently dressed like a shaman, performing a ghost dance with a nervous expression as if she were summoning a soul.
Ino often couldn't understand the affairs of the Living World, but as a renowned big shot of the Underworld, she was clear about the affairs of the Underworld.
Shion's ghost dance was completely correct. One look and she knew it was a very formal soul-summoning technique.
"Shion, what happened to Naruto?"
"Lord Hokage!" The Priestess hurriedly bowed. Ino waved her hand, signaling that there was no need for excessive ceremony.
The seventy-square-meter room was filled with incense and soul-summoning bells. Shion had drawn a massive soul-summoning array. In the bedroom to the side, the barely one-year-old Boruto was wailing loudly.
Meanwhile, Naruto Uzumaki—the student Ino had placed high hopes on, the important cornerstone prepared to build a civilized village, and the future Director of the Sanitation Bureau—was lying in the very center of the room, motionless, looking as if he were dead.
"What exactly is going on?"
Shion was, after all, the spiritual leader of a country, so she still had basic composure. She organized her language: "This morning, after Naruto finished eating, he was preparing to go do his mission. I was talking to him, and he suddenly just collapsed..."
Shion hesitated for a moment but still said, "Before he finally fainted, he seemed to call Sakura's name..."
Ino and Choji looked at each other. The fat man shook his head gently, implying: You're the boss, you handle it.
Headache!
The shinobi world was currently peaceful. Kaguya was not here, Isshiki was dead, Urashiki hadn't awakened yet, and Momoshiki and Kinshiki knew of her existence, so it was unlikely they would come to the shinobi world to cause trouble.
How could Naruto suddenly faint? And call out Sakura's name?
This matter... revealed weirdness from the inside out.
Did Sakura poison him and kill Naruto? Or was Sasuke burning with jealousy and hit Naruto with a Tsukuyomi?
Ino made a hand gesture, and five Animus ninja who had been secretly "protecting" the Hokage immediately appeared.
"Go to Konoha Hospital and call Jonin Uchiha Sakura over."
Soon, Sakura arrived at Naruto's home. Following her came Sasuke and Kakashi, who had recently been obsessed with watching the drama unfold.
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