After receiving their invitations, all three parties expressed their willingness to attend when the time came.
Kakuzu had shut himself in his office for several days without coming out. He muttered mysteriously to himself every day, and no one knew what he was doing in there.
"Kakuzu, Uncle's already building the venue. Aren't you going to take a look?" Dave called, knocking on Kakuzu's office door.
Kakuzu slowly walked over and opened the door.
Despite not coming out, eating, or drinking for days, Kakuzu looked positively radiant. Dave stared at him in bewilderment.
An eerie green light gleamed from Kakuzu's half-lidded eyes.
"This time, out of the other four villages, only Iwagakure and Kumogakure are worth fleecing," Kakuzu said solemnly, looking at all the items he had listed over the past few days.
"...What a load of crap. How much money do Kirigakure and Sunagakure send you every year? Forget everything else, that Love Kidney 6th Generation you're using is an old model from over ten years ago, and you actually dare export it to them for 180,000 ryo apiece. Only those two idiots, Yagura and Rasa, would fall for it. You could go out on the street right now and buy a brand-new one for 100 ryo," Dave said, speechless.
"Do you know how many years I've used this Love Kidney 6? Over twenty years! Twenty years! Replace its battery, replace its camera, replace its screen, replace things two hundred times, and it's still going strong today. I even feel like I'm losing money selling it to them for 180,000 ryo. It'll last them over twenty years," Kakuzu sneered, genuinely feeling he had gotten the short end of the deal.
Kakuzu took out his phone. Apart from the Love Kidney 6 logo, every component had been replaced several times,