After she finished speaking, Tsunade picked up the bottle beside her bed and gulped it all down. Then she wiped her lips and declared boldly,
"Let's go to the casino. This time, I'm sure to win big."
Shizune: "..."
A few hours later, in front of a pachinko machine.
Tsunade stared fixedly at the falling balls, her whole soul seeming to be sucked into the machine.
Rattle, rattle, rattle!!
She pulled the lever with great concentration, but no more balls came out.
Tsunade looked utterly unwilling to give up.
The ball had come so close to falling into the hole.
She had come so close to raking in a fortune.
"How can I keep losing? I refuse to believe it! Shizune, get me some more balls."
Tsunade rolled up her sleeves and shouted at Shizune.
Shizune didn't move. Holding the little pig, she said pitifully, "Lady Tsunade, please stop. If you keep playing, we won't even have enough money for a room."
Tsunade: "Huh?"
Shizune said, "Two hundred million. It's all gone!"
"See? It's that simple."
Meanwhile, watching Tsunade's stunned, bewildered expression through the camera, Neji's lips curved slightly. Just as I thought.
Orochimaru watched Neji warily and couldn't help asking, "Neji, you didn't put some kind of genjutsu on the machine, did you?"
"No."
Neji replied calmly, "You can sense it too. There's not the slightest trace of chakra on the pachinko machine.
"Tsunade's gambling addiction is too strong. Add the lights, the music, and the balls falling, which creates an effect similar to psychological hypnosis, and people get hooked without realizing it.
"Pretty amazing, isn't it?"
Orochimaru and Jiraiya exchanged a glance.
It was amazing, all right, but Neji was even more amazing.
They looked at Neji strangely, unable to understand how he had come up with such