Kakashi had never imagined that someone could scheme to such an extent just for the sake of the Hokage position!
However, no matter how disgusted Kakashi felt,
he could not deny one thing:
unless he stopped slacking off right now, utilized all of his connections and resources, and returned to the driven state he was in after Orochimaru utterly crushed him back then,
he had no means to retaliate against the Third Hokage.
As for whether a counterattack would succeed?
That was not something Kakashi needed to consider, given his status and standing.
As the disciple of Namikaze Minato, Kakashi naturally inherited the Fourth Hokage's faction. At the same time, he was a former Anbu operative, and his relations with the ninja clans and Namikaze Minato were quite good.
Moreover, to put it simply, if Kakashi told Guy that he intended to fight for the Hokage position, how many gates do you suppose Guy would open in support today?
Who in Konoha could currently defeat the Seventh Gate Guy?
It was just obvious that Kakashi could not make such a resolution yet.
Or rather, he needed to think about it seriously, think about it once more!
To consider whether he had the resolve to shoulder everything!
Therefore, after relaying the Third Hokage's orders to Yuhi Kurenai, Kakashi left in silence.
Naturally, Akali was completely unaware of the situation on Kakashi's end.
For her, future team assignments and who would become the Hokage were all illusions; only strength was real!
As it happened, through these various conflicts—though she hadn't gotten the money yet since the photos hadn't been sold—Akali's emotion points had accumulated by another 50,000-plus.
This meant she could perform six more emotion point draws!
Brimming with excitement, Akali, freshly out of the shower and wearing only an oversized T-shirt and underwear, her slender, fair legs bare, sat cross-legged on the bed and eagerly opened the lottery interface!
"System, perform six emotion point draws!" said Akali.
[Ding! Host command detected, the draw begins!]
Accompanied by the system's voice, the familiar super roulette wheel appeared before Akali once again.
And the moment it appeared, it began to spin.
However, looking at the roulette wheel, whether it was Akali's imagination or not, why did she feel that the options on the wheel had increased somewhat compared to before?
Akali looked closely.
Unfortunately, by this time the roulette wheel had reached its maximum speed, nearly blurring into an afterimage.
And there was nothing wrong with Akali's vision, but she couldn't make out the details very well.
Even so, Akali made a judgment: indeed, there was no mistake, the options on the roulette wheel had indeed increased.
Because the results of the draw were out!
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining through emotion point draws: Summoner Spell - Ghost, Rune - Celerity, Rune - Nimbus Cloak, Champion Skill - Force of Will, Hextech Augment - Might, Hextech Rune - Smoke Bomb!]
"..."
Looking at the newly drawn items, Akali fell silent.
There was naturally no need to elaborate on the effects of Ghost, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak.
Ghost provided a short-term speed boost, while Celerity granted a percentage movement speed bonus to her overall speed.
The effect of Nimbus Cloak synergized with Summoner Spells, granting her an explosive agility bonus after she used a Summoner Spell.
The three items obtained today could be said to max out her agility.
As for Syndra's W skill, Force of Will, Akali tested it out. Level one Force of Will was not particularly strong, because strictly speaking, the strength of the telekinesis relied not on her skill level, but on her own mental fortitude.
Given Akali's current mental fortitude, the telekinesis she could muster was barely enough to hold a water cup or things like that, which felt somewhat useless.
Still, that was fine; Akali could wait for the late game. Moreover, drawing skills from all champions meant that occasionally pulling a useless, chicken-ribs ability felt quite normal to Akali.
However, starting from Force of Will onward, things began to get a little strange!
If the previous items still fit the setup of emotion point draws granting champion skills, runes, and equipment,
what about this Hextech Augment - Might and Hextech Rune - Smoke Bomb...
If Akali remembered correctly, the former—Hextech Augment - Might—was a champion augment from Arena, a new League of Legends game mode released shortly before her transmigration.
The effect of Hextech Augment - Might was similar to Celerity, providing a percentage bonus to her attack power!
At this point, it was still somewhat understandable, since it was an augmentation for a champion.
What Akali could comprehend the least was this grand finale item!
Which was the Hextech Rune - Smoke Bomb!
Its effect was extremely simple: when Akali was about to take heavy injury-level damage, it would automatically cast a Smoke Bomb to get her out of harm's way and remove all negative effects!
What kind of concept was this?
To put it simply, among Western fantasy mages, there was a concept called permanent spell enchantment.
Mages could permanently bind certain escape-type abilities to themselves, such as automatically entering a random teleportation state upon being ambushed.
And this Hextech Rune - Smoke Bomb was precisely such a permanent spell!
Without exaggeration, with this item, even if Akali were caught by the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, she would still have a way to escape!
But the problem was, this thing was a Hextech Augment used for chess pieces in Teamfight Tactics, the entertainment mode commonly known as auto-battlers!
Could this even be pulled by her?
Akali couldn't understand it, but she was deeply shaken!
The problem was, if even things from Arena and Teamfight Tactics could be drawn, another question lay before Akali!
What kind of existence would she eventually turn into?
An Akali mom whose basic attacks guaranteed critical strikes, dealt secondary attacks, and hit everyone in an AoE?
"Ah, this..." Akali fell silent.
Yet honestly, how was it that she found herself rather looking forward to it...
What's that? "Who dares call themselves the God of Otsutsuki? I shall end their life with a single slash; the One-Blade Style Akali runes are already equipped!"
*Tactical lean back.JPG*
However, although the prospect of one-shotting enemies left and right was extremely tempting, Akali still knew this was just a fantasy.
"Ahem!" Akali wiped away the nonexistent drool from the corner of her mouth, patted her collagen-rich, tender little face to snap herself back to reality.
Then, she neatly flopped onto the bed, pulled the blanket over her head leaving only her nose and mouth exposed, and drifted off into a sweet dream.
Sleep; once asleep, everything is within reach.
Tomorrow she still had to take today's film and videos to negotiate terms with the magazine publisher!
Whether she would live in luxury or struggle depended entirely on that wave!
However, Akali, focused entirely on her own affairs, had no idea.
Following another in-depth conversation between the Third Hokage and Yuhi Kurenai,
within a single short day, news had spread from top to bottom and bottom to top: Uchiha Sasuke, the last orphan of the Uchiha clan and Konoha's super genius, had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of a peer and was carried into the Konoha Hospital on Kakashi's back!
Thus, when Akali spent a whole day finishing up the publication of Naruto's photo book, enjoyed a wonderful sleep, and arrived at the Ninja Academy the next day,
the moment she stepped through the door, she saw an unfamiliar passerby female classmate stealthily approaching Sakura.
"Sakura, Sakura, have you heard?"