Saiki Yuu was now exactly twenty years old!
He was truly entering a ninja's prime!
It was hard to imagine just how terrifying Saiki Yuu's strength would become once he truly entered his prime, considering that he had already dominated the Shinobi World and suppressed the entire Shinobi World when he was barely ten!
But the one thing that made every nation, every ninja village, and every faction relieved was this.
Saiki Yuu had become immersed in power and pleasure!
Why were money, alcohol, and women called the three taboos of ninja?
This was not a matter of legal prohibitions, regulations, or judgments of a ninja's character. It concerned a ninja's strength!
Money! Its importance to ninja went without saying!
Chakra required refining the energy within the body's 130 trillion cells. Once that energy was extracted, the body would fall into a state of nutritional deficiency.
Thus, it needed to replenish massive amounts of nutrients!
And that required money! A great deal of money!
Why was it difficult for civilian ninja to become powerful? Aside from secret techniques and Kekkei Genkai, their chakra reserves alone lagged far behind those of clan ninja who had been raised on precious resources since childhood!
The cells in civilian ninja's bodies were even often in a long-term state of malnutrition.
Even if one had plenty of money, spending excessively on pleasure would interfere with spiritual energy and likewise affect a ninja's strength.
That was why excessive spending on pleasure was taboo for ninja.
And alcohol went without saying.
Alcohol directly damaged a ninja's body and the cells within it!
It could be said that, to ninja, alcohol was even more terrifying than women!
Especially before a ninja turned twenty, when their body had yet to develop to its peak.
Drinking damaged the body and