All martial arts under heaven are invincible-only the Broker cannot be defeated!

Guy bounced around excitedly and pulled a rolled-up sheet of paper from the backpack behind him.

"What's that?" Kakashi and Uchiha Mai asked curiously, looking over.

Guy spread out the paper. It was a poster of Tsunade. The yellowing paper did little to obscure the heroic figure of Tsunade depicted on it.

In the poster, Tsunade wore the standard Konoha Jonin flak jacket. Her long golden hair fluttered in the wind, her features were delicate, and her figure was stunning. Her eyes were filled with a sharp, murderous glint.

She looked so dashing and heroic that it was hard not to be swept away.

"Dad said Lady Tsunade was his idol. When he found out my mission was to bring Lady Tsunade back, he gave me this poster he'd treasured for so many years and asked me to get her autograph for him."

Guy explained.

I see. Uchiha Mai finally understood. So Might Duy was a fanboy after all.

But it made sense that Might Duy was a Tsunade fan. They were both Taijutsu-type ninjas, and the latter also had a magnificent bust measuring at least 106 centimeters, with a cup size of at least L.

What man could resist a woman with a rack like that?

The three kids studied the poster for a long time. More than ten minutes after their agreed meeting time had passed before Master Minato finally arrived.

"Did you run into someone who needed help again on the way, Minato-sensei?" Uchiha Mai asked, proactively making an excuse for Master Minato.

"Not this time..."

Master Minato rubbed the back of his head, a little embarrassed, and explained, "Well, I suppose I was helping someone, in a way.

Kushina heard I was going to Tanzaku Town and gave me a really long shopping list. She said she could save quite a bit by buying everything there.

Before I left this morning, she even dragged me out to buy a camera at the last minute. She wants me to take some pictures of things unique to Tanzaku Town and bring them back for her."

The three kids: "..."

Mystery solved. Master Minato's main job was being a ninja; his side job was running errands.

As the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina was restricted by the village in her daily outings. It was only natural she'd long to experience new things from the outside world.

With the team assembled, they finally set out for Tanzaku Town.

One of the Ninja World's famous hot spring and gambling towns, Tanzaku Town was within Konoha's borders and not far from the village. It was less than a hundred kilometers away, a distance they could cover in a day.

On the way, Master Minato lectured his three students nonstop, repeating all kinds of precautions. He was very responsible.

Except for Guy, both Uchiha Mai and Kakashi let his words go in one ear and out the other. Master Minato still hadn't found the right way to educate geniuses and cheaters.

At lunchtime, Uchiha Mai casually opened the system interface.

[Style Points: 337]

After beating Kakashi up, his Style Points had climbed back over three hundred. He could afford to splurge on a one-star draw again.

Uchiha Mai had originally planned to save his Style Points. His strength was improving rapidly, and if he developed a few more Nintaijutsu techniques—well, copied a few—maybe the system would level up and unlock a one-and-a-half-star prize pool.

But plans couldn't keep up with change. He hadn't expected Master Minato to be so ambitious as to casually accept an A-Rank mission to find Princess Tsunade.

As a major character with a lot of screen time in the original story, Tsunade could probably be milked for just as many Style Points as Namikaze Minato.

So if he went for a one-star draw now and boosted his strength, he could "shock" Master Minato and Tsunade again and earn quite a few more Style Points.

Your money hasn't disappeared; it's just changed form and stayed by your side.jpg

Let's go for it!

Uchiha Mai steeled himself, spent 300 Style Points, opened the one-star prize pool, and did a single draw.

In a way, the damn system was pretty generous. It didn't pull any Tencent-style or Pinduoduo-style crap with reward fragments. At worst, the reward was more or less useful.

A few seconds later, a card popped out of the prize pool.

[Gongshoudao · One-Star Reward

All martial arts under heaven are invincible; only the Broker cannot be defeated!

Rumor had it that a certain tycoon surnamed Ma had used this skill to take on the heroes of the world. Experts like Wolf Warrior, Wong Fei-hung, Fang Shiyu, Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen, and Ip Man had all been unable to withstand even a single blow from him.

This reward is an active skill: by paying a certain amount of wealth, the host can increase his fixed combat power for a period of time.

The amount of wealth spent and the duration can both be customized. The degree of combat power increase depends on those two factors, and is subject to diminishing returns.]

What the hell? How had he drawn such a cursed skill?

Uchiha Mai furrowed his brow slightly. He knew the tycoon surnamed Ma mentioned in the description: a famous big-time capitalist, notorious for having no conscience. He'd made such famous remarks as "Business is the greatest charity" and "996 is a blessing."

He might have no conscience, but he was definitely a tycoon. The tycoon surnamed Ma and Uchiha Mai from his previous life, combined, could have moved the entire Asian economy.

This Gongshoudao skill was probably a reference to a short film starring the tycoon surnamed Ma as a hobby.

The damn system really did play dirty. It could come up with any sort of nonsense. This skill was just way too complicated.

"System, what do you mean by fixed combat power? Explain in detail," Uchiha Mai asked. He needed to understand the specifics.

A few seconds later, a line of small text appeared on the panel.

[Assume the host's current combat power is 30. If the host pays 100,000 yen to set a duration of one minute, the host will receive a comprehensive combat power increase of +1 for the next minute.

If the host pays 100,000 yen to set a duration of five seconds, the host will receive a comprehensive combat power increase of +8 for the next five seconds.

The more wealth paid and the shorter the duration set, the greater the combat power increase.

The degree of combat power increase changes only according to the cost and duration, and has nothing to do with the host's own combat power. It is also subject to diminishing returns.]

Uchiha Mai rubbed his chin as he thought it over. Got it. This was an early-game skill, like the Berserker class in Dungeon Fighter Online: the skill dealt fixed damage.

Even if his own combat power rose from 100 to one million, as long as the amount of wealth paid and the duration he set stayed the same, the increase in combat power wouldn't change.

And with diminishing returns, the weaker he was, the more worthwhile it would be to use this skill.

A ten-point boost to a combat power of 100 and a fifty-point boost to a combat power of one million meant completely different things.

It was a pretty interesting skill.

"What counts as wealth?" Uchiha Mai asked again.

[Currency in the broad sense, as well as gold, silver, and jewelry, can be used as the cost of this skill.

Real estate, land, and shares in merchant associations cannot be used as the cost.]

The damn system sure was particular.

It looked like, besides improving his strength and developing new moves, he'd have to figure out how to make some money. He'd finally gotten a skill, and he was still excited about it. He had to at least try it out and see whether it was any good.

By sunset, the group had finally reached Tanzaku Town.

Master Minato checked his wallet. He couldn't use the money meant for Kushina's shopping, so he didn't have much left to spend.

With his pockets nearly empty, Master Minato had no choice but to look for a place to stay on the outskirts of Tanzaku Town, where the location was the worst. He found an old-looking Regent Grand Hotel and planned to make do with a room for the night.