Heading to the Akatsuki

Due to the incredibly low prices, the Ten Thousand Goods Grocery Store raked in nearly 100 million ryo in sales on its very first day of business.

Such figures would be considered a resounding success by any standard, no matter where the store was located.

However, despite such gratifying sales, none of the Shimura clansmen involved in the store's operations could bring themselves to be happy.

Although they didn't know where their new clan head had sourced the goods, they simply couldn't fathom how the business was supposed to turn a profit at these price points.

Kizaru did not offer much of an explanation for his clansmen's worries, merely speaking up to reassure them.

Soon, the low prices at Kizaru's Ten Thousand Goods Grocery Store spread throughout all of Konoha.

Such low prices prompted many merchants and business-minded ninja clans to flock to the store to place orders.

Those merchants and ninja whose business interests conflicted with Kizaru's did not choose to target him; instead, they sent people to buy up these low-priced products.

These people operated under the assumption that Kizaru's current pricing strategy could not possibly last for long.

Rather than antagonizing this newly risen confidant of the Hokage, it was better to spend money to buy out the stock in Kizaru's hands.

After all, the wholesale price of those goods was even lower than their own procurement or production costs.

Hoarding these goods—whether to ship them elsewhere for sale or to wait until Kizaru could no longer sustain the losses and prices returned to normal—would result in a massive windfall.

In short, to these old foxes of the business world, Kizaru was just a greenhorn whose attempt to grab market share through low prices would only lead to his own ruin.

Many people were waiting to watch