Konoha attached immense importance to the visit from Takigakure.
Just as the convoy of the Takigakure leader arrived at the gates of Konoha, Uchiha Toukou and the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen—who was essentially the village's mascot now, spending his days rushing from one ribbon-cutting ceremony to another, but dragged here today by Uchiha Toukou to put in a shift—were already waiting.
A nearly hundred-meter-long red carpet stretched outward from the main gate.
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