Chapter 148: Earning Money and Apprenticeship Tasks, Monthly Pass]
"To celebrate Minato and Kushina's apprenticeship with Jiraiya, one of the three ninjas, and also to celebrate the first anniversary of the opening of the store, we are going to visit the BBQ restaurant tonight!"
After walking out of the Hokage's office, Toneri looked very happy.
Although Jiraiya only agreed to teach Minato and Kushina for one year now, as long as he had been in contact with Minato for a period of time, he would understand what the "True Fragrance Theorem" is.
"Let's go, let's kill the big guy today! I'll give you a treat!"
Kushina immediately became excited when she heard about eating barbecue.
When he heard that he was going to treat himself, Shiren's face suddenly became a little offended.
"What? No invitation? Today is your first anniversary!" Kushina stared.
"Please please please! Auntie, whatever you say will be done." He immediately raised his hands in surrender.
Minato also had a knowing smile on his face.
Jiraiya hasn't figured out the situation yet. His students will compete with Orochimaru's students in a year. But now it seems that the relationship between them is a bit too good.
"Okay! Let's meet at the barbecue restaurant then. I'll call Sister Lingxiang. You go to the barbecue restaurant to order first!"
After saying that, Kushina jumped up and down happily and ran away.
Since Toneri's cattery opened, Kushina went to the store to play, and after seeing Reika, the kind of war between two women did not happen between them.
Reika has a gentle personality, but Kushina has an inexplicable fondness for Reika, and they became good sisters when they first met.
Reika also knew through Toneri that Kushina was the only Uzumaki clan member left in Konoha, so she also had a very favorable impression of Kushina.
In this way, she would be more than just a friend in Konoha.
Every time Kushina has something fun or delicious, she will never forget her.
Watching Kushina's retreating figure, Jiraiya asked curiously: "Let that boy treat me. Is he rich? Which big family is he a disciple of?"
Minato still respects Jiraiya, who is one of the three ninjas. Moreover, starting from today, Jiraiya will become his teacher and will teach him for a year.
Minato's strength was originally superior to Toneri's, but in Minato's view, Toneri's talent was more outstanding, he worked harder, and he had an excellent teacher, so it was normal to surpass him.
He has also been working hard, but now he has entered a bottleneck period, without a clear direction, and his improvement in strength has slowed down.
But now that Jiraiya became his teacher, he saw hope of breaking through this bottleneck.
In the future, we must work harder!
"Jiraiya-sensei, it's like this. Toneri is very financially savvy. He opened a cattery in Konoha and made a lot of money. With the money, he bought a lot of real estate in Konoha. In his own words
, he is the charterer of Konoha." Minato said with a smile.
Minato admired Toneri's ability to make money.
It was a bit of a pick, but they also killed a lot of big families. After all, with Kushina here, it would be difficult for Toneri to get rid of them all.
"Cattery? How can you make so much money by running a cattery?" Jiraiya didn't react. How could a cattery make money?
But soon, Minato made him understand what it means to make money!
Ordinary petting for half an hour costs two thousand taels!
An hour of ordinary cat petting costs 3,000 taels!
By analogy, you can also apply for a membership card.
The price of buying an ordinary cat can range from 50,000 taels to 150,000 taels, depending on the breed.
You can also buy specially trained cats that can understand human speech and do many things, with prices ranging from 150,000 taels to 300,000 taels.
You can even buy ninja cats that can use chakra, but the price is relatively high, the price is more than 300,000 taels, with no upper limit.
The most exaggerated thing is that if you have special requirements, you can even customize it. You can choose different breeds of cats, different chakra attributes, and different strength.
In Toneri's words, as long as you have enough money, you can train a psychic beast that passes the psychic beast assessment and has the status of a ninja, but the price is even higher.
In short, money can buy all the services in the cattery store, and there is nothing you can’t imagine!
At first, when others saw this cattery store opened by Shiren and saw the price list, they thought it was really deceptive.
It's just that he has kept the price unchanged, and walks around the street with a cat in his arms every day, petting and stroking it from time to time.
As the saying goes, petting a cat feels good for a while, and it feels good all the time.
After being "tempted" by the cat owners, people gradually began to spend money to pet cats, and more and more people started to do so.
Moreover, some people from big families want to get closer to him, so they come to visit him and spend some money to express their feelings.
Among them are the Uchiha clan, Hyuga clan, Nara clan, Yamanaka clan and so on.
However, they soon discovered that petting cats is really addictive!
Just like that, the cattery opened little by little.
You know, as a ninja who kills every day and trains between life and death, the pressure is very high.
It is said that petting a cat can relieve stress...
From then on, it was out of control!
The business of the cattery is getting more and more exaggerated.
Seeing that business was very good, Scheren launched a membership card system.
And slowly, some people began to be dissatisfied with petting cats in the cattery, and thought about buying cats to take home so that they could pet them all at once.
Now that you have bought them all, why not spend a little more money and buy a more cost-effective cat that can be used as a psychic beast and can be petted?
For every class with different strengths, there is always one suitable for you.
Therefore, the cattery business is of course getting better and better.
Made a lot of money.
After listening to Minato's explanation, Jiraiya was stunned.
Is there anything else like this?
Is this...making money so easy?
"So, this guy is a rich man?" Jiraiya looked at Minato blankly, feeling that his own values had collapsed.
Looking at Jiraiya's unbelieving eyes, Minato didn't know what to say. He could only feel this by trying it himself.
"Not a wealthy person, but a super wealthy person!"
Jiraiya: "..."
"Kill him!"
"Well, kill him!"
Listening to the exchange between Minato and Jiraiya later, Toneri had a smile on his face.
Minato thinks this is all he can do to make money?
too naive.
Minato just saw the things he did in Konoha and the money he earned.
During this year, he gathered an unknown number of stray cats. After training by him, Lingxiang and Xiaolan, the first batch of cats that could be released have almost spread to every town in the entire ninja world.
These cats all followed the plan, silently gathering stray cats in the town.
If you meet some good ones, you can take them back to Konoha for training, and train them into different types of cats according to their talents.
An intelligence network unique to Toneri has begun to be established in addition to the major hidden villages.
What can be done now is to sell the locations of some well-known ninjas in the ninja world, and this basic information, through Kakuzu's relationship, has been successfully penetrated into the underground bounty exchange house.
Depending on the person's strength and location, the selling price will be different.
Kakuzu, who was originally skeptical about Toneri's intelligence system, completely believed his words at this moment.
The cooperation between the two people officially started.
After a year of layout and rollout of the intelligence system, the investment in the intelligence system has begun to generate income.
In the future, more and more people will know about it, and the speed of making money will definitely become faster and faster.
Of course, this is only a preliminary intelligence system, and Toneri will improve it little by little, striving to become the largest intelligence system in the entire ninja world.
With Kakuzu's prestige in the underground world, not many people dare to default on their debts.
From then on, there will be a cat in the corner of all underground bounty exchange rooms in the ninja world. Anyone who wants to buy information can get it as long as they pay enough money.
And most people think that this intelligence system is supported by Kakuzu, and they never imagined that the real person behind the scenes is actually the owner of a slightly famous cattery in Konoha Hidden Village, a Konoha brat, and a special jounin.
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There is a saying that Kakuzu is quite trustworthy and honest as long as he is given enough money, and not a single bit of Toneri's identity or information has been revealed.
Collect money from people and eliminate disasters for them.
Kakuzu does this perfectly and very principledly.
It feels very satisfying to be able to command a shadow-level thug. Although the price for letting him take action once is relatively high, there is already a lot of money saved in the treasury of Sheren. With the improvement of the intelligence system, the amount of information that can be sold will be more and more.
You come more and more, are you still worried about running out of money?
If you have money, Kakuzu can become an exclusive staff member.
Now he can only be regarded as a non-staff member of his cattery.
Therefore, Toneri now has a total of two employees. One is Uzumaki Reika who does not need a salary. As long as he provides shelter and safety, he will be loyal. The other is Kakuzu, a powerful shadow-level person. This person's price is relatively high.
, but it is still within the acceptable range.
Isn't it nice to be a shadow-level powerhouse who can be measured in money?
"We, the common people, are so happy today -" Sheren hummed a little song and seemed to be in a good mood.
Isn't it just a barbecue?
As long as there are no people from the Akimichi clan, I can afford it!
The dinner at the barbecue restaurant didn't cause much commotion. As a regular customer of the barbecue restaurant, the boss even gave Toneri a 10% discount.
Jiraiya has a typical hatred of rich people. Apart from sacrificing himself, he is the one who eats the most at night.
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It was still dark the next morning.
Toneri and Orochimaru gathered at the gate of Konoha.
The two of them left Konoha together.
After the barbecue last night, Orochimaru told Toneri that he would prepare everything and go out with him today. There was a more important task that he needed to participate in together.
Although he felt a little uneasy, after all, it was a task that even Orochimaru needed help with.
"Teacher Orochimaru, what is our mission this time? Why do we feel like we are going straight to the Land of Fire now? Is the mission target outside?" Toneri couldn't help but ask.
Orochimaru did not show off, and said calmly: "Our experiment has now reached a bottleneck, and you also know this, so in order to break through this bottleneck, I plan to collect some rare and valuable materials, maybe we can
Become a breakthrough for experimentation.”
Shiren was stunned.
During this period, of course, the main target of the experiments they conducted was the cells of the first Hokage Senju Hashirama. Under the premise that Toneri did not reveal his own arm or what he knew about the Yin and Yang escape, the two people's experiments were indeed plunged into
In the bottleneck, or Orochimaru fell into the bottleneck.
Toner and Orochimaru both have experiments that only they know about. This is something they both know very well and is normal.
"Has the teacher thought of a solution?"
Orochimaru gave him a meaningful look, especially on his left hand, which was wrapped in bandages, and stayed there for a while.
At that moment, Toneri felt that Orochimaru had seen through the thing on his left hand.
If he didn't have enough confidence in Kushina and the Uzumaki clan's sealing technique, the hairs on his body would stand on end.
However, Orochimaru continued: "In Senju Hashirama's cells, I discovered a very strange energy. After many tests, this energy cannot be counted among the ordinary chakra attributes.
But there are only a few chakra attributes in this world, and apart from the five attributes, the first thing I can think of is tailed beast chakra."
Hearing these words, Shiren was shocked.
Orochimaru is worthy of being Orochimaru. He was able to find the key to Senju Hashirama's cells so quickly. The combination of earth escape and water escape can produce the key to wood escape.
As for tailed beast chakra...
"You have always paid close attention to the two tails in your body. I also know the concerns in your heart. After all, for any jinchuriki, the tailed beast in their body is not only their strength, but also their life.
Of course it's understandable for you to do this, so I won't start with you.
As for Kushina's Nine-Tails, the involvement is still too great and it's not easy to deal with it, so we can only target the Jinchuuriki of other hidden villages."
Orochimaru said matter-of-factly, but Toneri suddenly recalled a certain memory in his heart.
eight-tail!
Orochimaru's target is the Eight-Tails!
But he had no intention of hiding it from Toneri, otherwise he wouldn't have brought him out with him.
"Except for the nine-tailed and two-tailed beasts that cannot be touched, the only tailed beasts whose locations are known so far are the one-tailed one on Monk Fenfu of Sunagakure Village, the four-tailed one on Old Murasaki of Iwagakure Village, the three-tailed beasts on Kirigakure Village and Kumogakure Village's three-tailed beasts.
The whereabouts of the eight-tailed ones, the remaining five-tailed ones, the six-tailed ones and the seven-tailed ones are unclear.
Therefore, our first target is the Eight-Tails in Hidden Cloud Village. After all, it is the strongest existence besides the Nine-Tails, and it should be able to provide relatively high reference experimental results for the experiment."
As expected, Orochimaru still focused on the Eight-Tails very simply.
It's because the Eight-Tails is the strongest tailed beast besides the Nine-Tails, and it definitely has the highest reference value.
That is to say, Orochimaru is like this. A highly skilled person is so bold that he directly challenges the Eight-Tails, which is the most difficult level.
"Teacher Orochimaru, it seems that it is better for you to do this kind of difficult lurking mission alone? Aren't I just going to hold you back?" Toneri thought for a while and said.
This is Kumo Hidden Village among the five hidden villages, and if nothing else, it is the most powerful Hidden Village besides Konoha.
The current Third Raikage Ai is definitely not a strong man like Sarutobi Hiruzen.
And because he is a ninja who uses taijutsu and thunder chakra mode as his main fighting methods, the peak period of his entire ninja career will last longer.
According to Toneri's memory, the Third Raikage used his own power to fight against the berserk Eight-Tails many times. In the end, both sides were exhausted and collapsed at the same time.
This is a man who can defeat the eight tails.
What is even more exaggerated is that in the future, he will single-handedly challenge tens of thousands of ninjas in Iwagakure Village to buy time for his companions to escape. In the end, he will die of exhaustion after three days and three nights of fighting.
He is definitely one of the top five strong men in the ninja world at this time, and he is also the well-deserved third generation Raikage of Kumogakure Village!
With such an exaggerated figure, and there are many powerful but not famous ninjas in Hidden Cloud Village, Toneri feels that his small body is not as good as the Third Raikage's Hell Thrust and Shibon Gunshou.
Orochimaru, who was running, glanced at Toneri gently again, "Aren't you curious about the power of the Eight-Tails? You must have figured out the limit of the Two-Tails' power based on your ability. Don't you want to see it?
What is the difference between the second tail and the eighth tail?
Don’t you want to see what kind of place Yunyin Village is?”
Toneri's expression froze, "I want to see it, but as long as we are exposed a little bit, the result may be catastrophic."
"Jun Sheren, it has been almost three years since I became your teacher, right?
In the past three years, we have similar interests and have gotten along fairly well. Do you think I don't know your life-saving ability?
As you said, our goal this time is Cloud Hidden Village. Once exposed, it will be very dangerous, so we need someone who can handle me. And there are not many people in Konoha who can trust me. You
It happens to be one of them.”
Orochimaru licked his lips, his voice full of magnetism. It must be said that the personality charm exuded from Orochimaru at this moment was unmatched by anyone.
No wonder there will be so many people in the future who will follow him wholeheartedly, even if they go to death.
After saying that, he took out a scroll from the inside of his clothes and handed it to Toneri's hand.
"This is the Rashomon psychic contract you have always wanted. I only have the triple Rashomon psychic contract in my hand.
This operation can also be regarded as your apprenticeship test. If it can be completed successfully, it will be considered as you have officially passed the apprenticeship. I will help you write a letter of recommendation to the old man and apply for you to become a real Konoha jounin."
Toneri accepted Rashomon's psychic contract with a face of surprise.
Rashomon has always been what he has longed for. Even if it is only the third level, its defense is definitely the top in the ninja world.
As for jounin or not jounin...it's not a big problem.
Listening to Orochimaru's promise of practical benefits and the temptation to become a Jonin, it seems that he indeed has a very firm determination for the Eight-Tails of Kumogakure Village.
Toneri, who has read the original work, knows that this trip to Yunyin Village is actually not very dangerous.
But Orochimaru doesn't know this, so it's not unreasonable for him to be so careful.
As for what help Sheren can do?
When a tailed beast really goes berserk, except for a few overly powerful ninjas, the only one who can compete with it is another tailed beast.
Anyway, even Orochimaru is not willing to face an almost unkillable creature.
