Naruto: The Player's Ascent
Chapter 16

Old Daddy Fast Food

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Time flowed like water, and the years flew by like a shuttle.

Two months passed.

During that time, Naruto had gone through five homeroom teachers, earning a huge amount of experience.

Although each one had suffered a mental breakdown because of Naruto's pranks.

Naruto could only say, I'm innocent too! Every teacher is targeting me!

Today, a new homeroom teacher was arriving.

As soon as the new teacher arrived, he would immediately get his prank experience.

With another 500 experience points in hand, he would have the Mangekyo by tonight.

This Mangekyo really had not come easy!

Over the past two months, Naruto had tried countless methods but had failed to find a way to upgrade his Sharingan on his own.

The skill only had a short description: only intense emotional fluctuations could upgrade this skill.

Come on, man?

What kind of emotional fluctuation even counted as intense?

Naruto could only say, I can't do it.

Internally, his Wood Style had recently reached mastery. He was using permutations and combinations to cultivate other Chakra Attributes, progressing rapidly and feeling so happy he could barely tell which way was up.

Yet the system still did not count that as an intense fluctuation.

Externally, Naruto was no longer that lonely child who suffered discrimination. He had friends.

The steady, flowing friendship between friends definitely did not count as an intense fluctuation.

Naruto truly could not find anything about himself that could produce intense emotional fluctuations.

For the first time, his talent had encountered such a formidable enemy.

It had actually been restrained by the rules.

Therefore, Naruto could only use experience to grind up his level.

Over these two months, he had relentlessly completed all kinds of side quests, hoping to obtain the Mangekyo as soon as possible.

Today was the day his dream came true.

Early in the morning.

The moment Naruto sat down, Choji came over to buy chips and Happy Water.

Choji was Naruto's biggest customer and also his good friend.

Still, even brothers settled accounts clearly.

After selling chips for a while and then collecting "protection money" from Sasuke, Hinata came to buy milk tea.

Ever since she fainted, the girl had unexpectedly become much more resolute.

That kind of change was a good thing.

It was just that whenever she came to buy milk tea, she looked at Naruto with evasive eyes and a flushed face.

The first one or two times, Naruto wondered whether he had failed to wipe some boogers off his face.

After it happened more often, he began to suspect that Hinata might have a crush on him.

Naruto even wanted to tell Hinata directly, Don't even think about it. We can't be together. I only like girls between eighteen and twenty-five. You're too young. I have no interest whatsoever.

But.

Naruto was afraid he was being full of himself.

Otherwise, if he actually said that, it would be far too awkward.

Ding ding ding~

The class bell rang.

The moment Umino Iruka pushed open the door, a basin of water drenched him from head to toe.

Naruto's Transformation Jutsu plus his Summoning Combination Ninjutsu were simply unstoppable, working every time without fail.

"Who did this? Who would pull such a prank?"

"Teacher, it was Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto gave the speaker a deep look.

You little punk, it's you every single time.

"Naruto, you..."

Hearing that name, Iruka had originally been quite angry.

Uzumaki Naruto was the troublemaker of Class One, Year One. He had driven away five homeroom teachers.

However, he suddenly recalled the advice an experienced teacher had given him before he came here.

'Naruto? Just deal with him halfheartedly. Keep things stable in all matters, and don't stir up trouble. He's just a child. As long as you don't take the initiative to interact with him, he'll naturally distance himself from you.'

That teacher had trained a genius like Itachi Uchiha. He, Iruka, was only a new teacher. That teacher's method should work, right?

Thinking this, Iruka suddenly calmed down, walked to the podium, and began introducing himself.

"Good morning. First, let me introduce myself. Starting today, I am..."

Naruto had thought he would be sent to stand as punishment next, but that was it?

Seriously?

"The ignore tactic?" Naruto muttered.

Fine, he accepted it.

Being ignored was at least better than being hated.

Besides, the experience points were already in the bag.

"Choji."

"Hm?" Choji, who was eating chips, looked at Shikamaru, who had called him.

"How long do you think this homeroom teacher will last?"

"He'll probably last a very, very long time."

"Hm?" Shikamaru did not believe it at all. The previous five had all been driven away, so why would this one be different?

"Want to bet? Let's make it one... no, three months." Shikamaru took the initiative to propose it.

Hearing that, Choji decisively accepted.

"Sure. The wager is the newly opened Old Daddy Fast Food. I want a family bucket."

Shikamaru did not understand Naruto, but did he, Choji, not understand him?

Naruto lived by the rule that if others did not offend him, he would not offend them. Since the teacher did not bother him, Naruto naturally would not take the initiative to act again.

"Hey, you two, at least show me some respect. I'm still right here," Naruto said helplessly as he looked at them.

For the rest of the day, everything remained peaceful, just as Choji had said.

After school.

Choji insisted on dragging Shikamaru to Old Daddy Fast Food.

He said he wanted to reserve a family bucket. Naruto went with them for half the way, then parted from them and went home.

Old Daddy Fast Food—just hearing the name made it obvious that Naruto had opened it.

Except he had not opened it himself.

No one would come if he ran the shop himself.

This shop had been opened by one of his clones, which had used the Transformation Jutsu to become a nearby old man who was nearing the end of his life and destined to die alone, then used that man's identity to open the store.

That clone was a Wood Style Clone with a physical body, easy to use and difficult to detect.

Naturally, the products were the KFC-style items tied in with the game.

There was fried chicken, burgers, fries, Happy Water, and the classic family bucket.

All of them could be bought in the shop, and he only needed to double the price when selling them.

After all, the shop's listed prices were generally quite low.

At present, the flagship Old Daddy Fast Food store brought in around five thousand ryo in net profit per day, making it quite lucrative.

At one hundred and fifty thousand ryo in net profit per month per store, one hundred stores could earn fifteen million ryo every month!

That money would be enough to buy all nine tailed beasts once over!

Naruto did the math.

It was only one hundred stores. They would not even cover the entire Land of Fire.

Naruto also discovered that these clones actually shared a single inventory with him.

In other words, products he placed in the inventory could be taken out by a clone somewhere else.

What did you call interdimensional teleportation?

With that, he no longer had to worry about opening stores across different regions.

The inventory's functions did not stop there.

Items inside would not spoil, and each slot could stack up to 9,999 items. It was simply the warehouse of his dreams.

Moreover, the game's built-in party chat was also a powerful tool for commerce. Without any external equipment, they could ignore spatial barriers and communicate face-to-face.

With it, although the clones could not use the shop, Naruto only needed a message to place an order in the shop and put the goods into the inventory.

At that point, Naruto suddenly realized that this game had so many loopholes to exploit.

Interesting.

However, if he wanted to truly roll out the fast-food model, Naruto first needed to solve the problem of making his clones real.

Otherwise, once it expanded, any attack on them would expose his Wood Style.

Naruto was currently exploring how to solve that problem. He had a feeling that the answer seemed to lie with Yang Release.

Thanks to Chiyu Xiayu for the monthly ticket, the first non-bonus monthly ticket for this book.

A newcomer's daily plea for support: please keep reading, send recommendation tickets, and monthly tickets.

Please don't stockpile chapters. Continued reading is really important.

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