The Legendary Fat Sheep

Chapter 44: The Legendary Big Fat Sheep [Seeking Recommendation Tickets]

"So full—" Toneri rubbed his stomach as he walked out of a small restaurant on Konoha's busiest street.

Behind him, Kushina and Minato watched Toneri with apprehension.

The two exchanged glances, seeing the shock in each other's eyes. The difference was that Kushina's eyes held pure shock, while Minato's eyes held shock mixed with a bit of heartache.

At this moment, Minato wanted to ask...

Are you from the Akimichi clan?!

Toneri's appetite made Kushina and Minato redefine the term "glutton" and also forced Minato to redefine the number of money in his wallet.

From now on, if anyone said they were treating Toneri to a meal, he'd fight them!

Toneri walked with a swagger, surveying the various shops on the street, searching for Ichiraku Ramen.

He had originally planned to have dinner at Ichiraku Ramen, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time. Kushina and Minato, afraid of being led in circles by Toneri, just randomly picked a decent-looking small restaurant.

Although the taste was good, was Toneri looking for Ichiraku Ramen just to eat?

It was to... see if little Ayame might be born early.

After eating their fill, Kushina and Minato didn't insist on him leading the way anymore. After all, no matter how they wandered, it was still shopping.

Shopping itself, what they shopped for wasn't important, but who they shopped with was!

However, as Toneri was searching for Ichiraku Ramen, he saw someone he didn't expect.

A golden ponytail, a loose green jacket with the character "Gambling" on the back, and her signature bust...

Slurp—

Tsunade, the princess of Konoha and one of the Sannin, who shared the same reputation as his cheap teacher!

The legendary big fat sheep!

Tsunade was holding a black leather suitcase, looking at the shop in front of her with determination and confidence. Two very conspicuous characters were on the shop's sign.

Gambling House!

The legendary big fat sheep was about to enter the casino!

Toneri suddenly felt he might have an opportunity.

Noticing Toneri stop, Kushina and Minato behind him also stopped and followed his gaze. It was a woman.

A very stunning woman.

Then they saw this woman walk into the gambling house. The guards at the entrance, upon seeing her, immediately bowed and smiled obsequiously, ushering her in.

Toneri immediately turned around, staring intently at Minato.

Gulp—

"To... Toneri, what do you want to do?" Minato, for some reason, felt a certain number on him might be about to be refreshed.

Toneri slung an arm around Minato's neck and said with a look that said, Trust me, "Minato, how much money do you have left?"

"N-not much..." Minato didn't react immediately.

He took out his wallet from his pocket, looked at the colorful coins inside, and carefully counted about thirty thousand Ryo.

For a commoner, this was already a considerable sum, possibly a month's living expenses for a family.

But for a ninja, it wasn't much.

The cost of living in the world of Hokage was, of course, very different from Toneri's previous life.

A regular pork cutlet bowl cost about eight hundred Ryo. If you wanted extra toppings, it might cost nearly a thousand Ryo. From this, you could see how worthless the two one-thousand-Ryo money tickets Toneri had confiscated from the previous Two-Tails Jinchuriki were.

Of course, the prices in Konoha were definitely much higher, as it was home to a large number of ninja, and ninja were a high-income group. Towns on the border of the Land of Lightning couldn't compare.

But it was precisely because of the price difference that trading merchants could earn the middleman's profit.

Keep in mind that in the small restaurant just now, Toneri had eaten a full twenty pork cutlet bowls, so even Minato felt heartache.

Twenty pork cutlet bowls, rounded up, was practically an Asuma!

As a Genin like Minato, especially one without a fixed team, the D-rank missions he usually took, mostly involving finding things or helping with chores, paid between five hundred and ten thousand Ryo, depending on the difficulty.

When he was younger, he might have temporarily joined some teams for C-rank missions, usually escorting or delivering confidential documents. Without ninja-level combat, the reward was typically between ten thousand and fifty thousand Ryo, and even then, it had to be shared among the team members.

Those qualified to form a team were usually Chunin or even stronger. The rewards were distributed based on contribution, with Chunin often taking the lion's share.

So, even though Minato had become a ninja, without a leading Jonin or a team, his income wasn't high.

Above C-rank missions were B-rank, A-rank, and S-rank, but these were not within Minato's reach at the moment.

The thirty thousand Ryo in his wallet now was all his savings. Once it was gone, he would have to take on more missions to sustain himself.

Although he didn't know what Toneri was planning, out of trust, Minato handed over all his savings to him.

Seeing Toneri's expression, which still seemed a bit dissatisfied, Minato suddenly regretted not using his full strength when Kushina had hit him earlier.

"Here, I have some more. I don't know why you need so much money, but it should be something fun," Kushina said, vaguely sensing what might happen.

Opening the wallet Kushina handed over, Toneri's eyes lit up.

So he was the hidden rich guy!

From Kushina's purse, Toneri found a total of 170,000 Ryo. Combined with the "pocket change" Minato produced, it made a grand total of 200,000 Ryo!

Actually, Kushina wasn't really short on money. As the last survivor of the Uzumaki Clan, the wealth she should have possessed was beyond anyone's imagination.

However, carrying such a large sum at her young age would undoubtedly make her a target. Thus, Konoha had very kindly "kept it safe" for her, giving her a certain amount of pocket money each month.

Thanks to her connection with Mito Uzumaki, Konoha hadn't treated her too shabbily. She always received her full monthly allowance.

Moreover, Kushina didn't have many friends and didn't have many places to spend money, so she had been saving it all.

The money she carried today was only a portion of her savings.

Therefore, she was the true little rich woman among the three of them, the one with the most money.

Of course, no matter how much Toneri looked at Minato with disdain, it couldn't hide the fact that he himself was the pauper.

Stuffing the 200,000 Ryo into his pocket, he once again strode off with a swagger towards the gambling den.

He muttered incessantly, "Not even three-thousandths of Asuma..."

Fortunately, Minato, who was somewhat protective of his money, didn't hear what Toneri was saying.

But even if he had heard, he wouldn't have known what Asuma was.

"Little kids, this is a gambling house, not a place for you to play. Go home to your moms."

As soon as the three of them approached, they were stopped by the guards at the entrance.

Konoha's management of gambling houses was quite strict. Anyone underage was absolutely forbidden from entering, much like prohibition.

So, these gambling houses would stop any children who approached, preventing them from getting close.

They were trained professionals and would stop any child, unless... they couldn't.

Like Tsunade, who used to be protected by Hashirama Senju.

But speaking of going home to their moms, that really hit a nerve. If Toneri and the others still had their mothers, they would have beaten the guard to the ground!

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