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After he finished his ramen, he took out a gold nugget and asked, "Boss, I just came here from out of town to settle in Konoha. Can I pay with this?"
Ichiraku smiled warmly. "Of course."
Hao Shuai handed the gold nugget to the owner, then asked, "Boss, where can I exchange gold around here?"
"Turn left when you leave. There's a bank about a hundred meters down." The owner took the nugget with a smile.
"Thanks." Hao Shuai accepted the bills the owner gave him as change, then turned and left Ichiraku Ramen. As he went, he smiled at Naruto, who was sitting across from him.
As for the owner, Hao Shuai was certain that the theory that Ichiraku was secretly the mastermind, Otsutsuki Ichiraku, was complete nonsense. He was nothing more than an ordinary man.
Following Ichiraku's directions, Hao Shuai made his way to the bank in Konoha. Afraid of attracting unwanted attention, he exchanged only enough gold for ten million ryo.
That's right~
The currency in Naruto was called "ryo." There were both banknotes and coins, but all of them were counted in ryo.
According to the setting, one ryo in Naruto was worth about ten yen in the real world.
The Ichiraku Ramen Hao Shuai had just eaten usually cost between forty and eighty ryo. An ordinary Genin in Konoha generally earned between two hundred thousand and four hundred thousand ryo a year, while a Chunin earned around a million, and a Jonin about three million.
But that was just their income. Taxes and other expenses still had to be deducted. Considering Konoha's cost of living, it was clear that even after working all year, shinobi couldn't save much money!
And then there was Tsunade, one of the Sannin, managing to rack up tens of