"Do whatever you want with Hidan. No matter what, I'm happy." Kakuzu chuckled.
Land of Waterfalls, capital.
Kakuzu stood on the bustling main street, that number echoing over and over in his mind.
A full 5.1 billion ryo had all arrived in his account.
He took out his bankbook and checked it three times. Every time he saw that string of numbers, his heartbeat quickened.
That money was enough to buy half a small country.
Kakuzu raised his head. Shops, taverns, and trading houses lined both sides of the street. Wooden signs creaked in the wind, pedestrians brushed shoulders in the road, and vendors' cries rose and fell one after another.
A thought suddenly came to him.
Buy this street?
What kind of return on investment could it bring?
Kakuzu began calculating precisely in his mind. Rental income from the shops on this street, plus room for appreciation, minus maintenance costs and labor expenses—the annual return should be around five percent.
Not enough.
Far from enough.
The asset management plan the Purifiers had given him offered an annual return of ten percent.
And he did not need to worry about any of the details.
In the past, he might have thought five percent was a lot, but his appetite had clearly been spoiled now.
It was not like he could not buy it. Still, he should look around some more. Buying it just for fun would not be bad either.
Kakuzu nodded and continued walking.
He knew this street well.
Decades ago, he had committed monstrous crimes here, slaughtering Takigakure's upper ranks and taking the secret Earth Grudge Fear technique from their corpses. Back then, the street had not been this prosperous, nor had the buildings been this orderly.
But that had all been a long time ago.
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