Haru immediately ordered Tomita to prepare the luggage. Tomorrow, they would set out for the capital of the Land of Fire to demand money from the Daimyo.
There was no time to waste.
Konoha was already on the verge of running out of food, and a mountain of people under his command were all demanding repayment.
If you wanted to put it nicely, Konoha was a ninja village.
If you wanted to put it bluntly, it was a mercenary organization, just one where the Fire Daimyo happened to be the biggest employer while also occupying the formal position of lord.
People became soldiers to get paid.
Now they were fighting wars out of their own pockets.
If the money did not come, then a mutiny could break out in minutes.
Tomita nodded and left to prepare Haru's luggage.
Once Tomita was gone, Haru patted his face.
He absolutely could not let all these annoying matters ruin his mood.
Just a moment ago, the notification sound for the long-term task "Become Hokage of Konoha" had finally rung out.
He had been busy all these days for exactly this reward.
"Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Jade Emperor, Jesus..."
Following proper procedure, Haru first offered a prayer to the heavens, then opened the roulette, clicked the draw button, and pulled.
The pointer spun around the wheel dozens of times before finally stopping on the golden slot Haru had dreamed about day and night.
"Mangekyo Sharingan (Uchiha Itachi version)!"
Tch.
Haru clicked his tongue in annoyance.
His luck was still just as bad as ever.
There were so many good things in the golden reward pool, and this was what he got?
A little underwhelming.
The Mangekyo Sharingan was powerful, sure, but it had flaws. Use it too much and you would go blind.
And it had not even given him the chance to awaken his own eye techniques. Haru had actually been a little curious what kind of ability his own personality would have produced.
Forget it.
Haru shook his head and decided not to dwell on it.
With his own circumstances, he probably would never have had the chance in this lifetime to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan naturally.
He had been an orphan since childhood and had no one he cared about enough to trigger it.
And if there really were someone he treasured enough to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan for, Haru would never be willing to exchange that person's life for it.
The evolution path of the Uchiha bloodline limit really was a mess.
Haru sighed and clicked to extract the reward.
A cold, chaotic, evil chakra instantly flooded into his eyes and rushed upward into his skull, leaving Haru feeling like he was halfway to bliss and halfway to death.
Then another cool current appeared and swept away all the negative effects.
At least the roulette had done one thing right.
It had not let the eye power of the Mangekyo Sharingan drive him insane.
Hm?
A new task had appeared?
And so many of them?
Haru opened the task interface.
The moment he became Hokage, the wheel had suddenly spawned a whole pile of new long-term tasks.
Battle-type missions?
They were even categorized now.
Had the roulette secretly updated itself after he became Hokage?
Forget that. First he needed to see what these tasks actually were.
Long-Term Task: Defeat Hashirama Senju head-on
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Defeat Madara Uchiha head-on
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Defeat Kaguya Otsutsuki head-on
Reward: One golden draw chance
...
What the hell are these tasks?
Are these things something a person at my level can even do?
Never mind. Not looking. Not looking!
How infuriating!
Haru felt like the roulette was deliberately messing with him.
Disgusting.
Absolutely disgusting.
There were also achievement-type tasks?
Haru kept scrolling downward through the interface.
Long-Term Task: Recognition from the Predecessors
Requirement: Earn the sincere recognition of every previous Hokage
Reward: One golden draw chance
What the hell?
That was even more ridiculous.
There had only been two Hokage before him so far.
Hashirama and Tobirama.
Hashirama would probably be easy enough. Just bring him back with the Reanimation Jutsu and trick him a little. He died young enough that he did not know much.
But Tobirama?
If Haru brought Tobirama back right now, Tobirama would probably devour him alive.
He had pretended to be harmless and indifferent for so long, fooled Tobirama the whole time, and then outright killed the Third Hokage Tobirama had chosen himself.
And now he was supposed to expect Tobirama to sincerely approve of him?
Better not dream about it.
But it was so frustrating.
This was a golden reward task.
That feeling really was unpleasant.
Haru sighed and kept scrolling.
There were more tasks below.
Long-Term Task: I Have a Dream of Konoha
Requirement: Develop Konoha into a great ninja village of the world, to the point that ninja from other villages are willing to become missing-nin just to join Konoha and fulfill their dreams
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Iron Will
Requirement: Build a modernized army and destroy one ninja village
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Grain Master
Requirement: Control food, become the ruler of the underworld, establish a company that controls grain pricing across the entire ninja world
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Entertain to Death
Requirement: Seize control of the entertainment direction of the ninja world, establish a company, and turn it into the strongest entertainment company in the ninja world
Reward: One golden draw chance
Long-Term Task: Financial Tycoon
Requirement: Establish a company and control the economic trade of an entire nation
Reward: One golden draw chance
...
The farther Haru scrolled, the uglier his expression became.
Were these really tasks a human being was supposed to do?
Not a single one of them was realistically achievable at his current stage.
And every reward was golden.
It was blatantly trying to lure him in!
It was stabbing him right in the heart.
After suppressing his anger, Haru kept scrolling downward.
Below that was the life category.
Hopefully these would not be too difficult.
Long-Term Task: Call Me Warlord of Widows
Requirement: Substantively possess three or more widows
Reward: Ten draw chances
Long-Term Task: Brothers Are Limbs, Women Are Clothes
Requirement: Emulate Brothers Before Wives by marrying a wife and then, for three straight months, still sleeping pressed foot-to-foot with your brothers
Reward: Ten draw chances
Long-Term Task: Bronze Bird Deeply Locks the Twin Beauties
Requirement: Possess a pair of twin sisters
Reward: Ten draw chances
Long-Term Task: Save the Last Bullet for Me
Requirement: Marry a younger girl as your wife
Reward: Ten draw chances
...
What the hell?!
I swear these tasks exist only to make fun of me!
Haru completely broke down.
The life-category tasks really were not that hard, and the rewards were honestly decent.
But were these things any normal person could actually do?
If he forcibly completed these tasks, then all anyone outside would think was that he had evolved from a giant pile of sentient shit.
His dignity would be completely shattered.
His life as a human being could basically be declared over.
In his previous life, he had always kept his browser in incognito mode, terrified that one day he might suddenly die and someone would look at his search history and socially kill him on the spot.
As it turned out, he really had died suddenly later on.
So his foresight had been right all along.
These damned trash tasks were clearly trying to force him down a dead-end road with no way back.
Power, or dignity?
Haru slammed his hands against the desk over and over, trying to relieve some of his frustration.
Outside the room, Tomita had already finished packing Haru's luggage. Hearing the constant desk-slapping from inside, he immediately understood that Haru was venting his anger.
Being Hokage was hard.
On the very first day, people were already pointing at him and demanding money.
That really was exhausting.
Tomita decided not to go in just yet.
He would at least give Haru some time to vent first.
(End of Chapter)
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