Time flew by

Tetsuya went back a few more times afterward, but only to have a look around. He also handed over his ramen shop in Konoha to Teuchi for good and renamed the Chiba Ramen Shop Ichiraku Ramen.

After all, Tetsuya felt that Konoha could do without the Chiba Ramen Shop, but without the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, it would lose a little of its flavor.

Over the years, Tetsuya had accumulated a considerable fortune, but he had not chosen to resurrect anyone else.

After all, that damn system of his really was a rip-off. It had lined up Tobirama Senju as his second featured summon.

Unless he pulled Tobirama Senju, the featured summon would never change to the next character.

At this stage, however, he did not particularly want to resurrect Tobirama Senju.

The man was nothing but schemes from head to toe. Once resurrected, he would definitely return to Konoha to help it develop.

Even if Tetsuya forbade him from returning to Konoha, he would probably find some way to contact the village and help it anyway.

That fellow Tobirama had far too many tricks up his sleeve.

Who knew what lousy scheme he might come up with?

After going a long time without spending anything, Tetsuya finally gave in to Doggo's relentless coaxing and spun the lottery wheel again.

He splurged on it.

Now, Tetsuya's strength had taken another substantial leap.

[Name: Chiba Tetsuya

Identity: Merchant of the Land of Fire

Constitution: Evil God Immortal Body, Fire Release Ninjutsu Enhancement, Sage Body, Mangekyō Sharingan

Dōjutsu: Susanoo, Eternal Divine Kingdom, Mirror Beyond the Clouds.

Skills: Chakra Extraction Method, Chakra Sealing Technique, Clone Technique, Shadow Clone Technique, Substitution Technique, Transformation Technique, Summoning Technique, Eight Trigrams Seal, Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Dissolving Technique, Fire Release: Fire Dragon Bullet, Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet, Lightning Release: Lariat, Lightning Release: Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop, Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet, Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld, Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, Wind Release: Vacuum Wave, Wind Release: Slashing Air Blast, Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere...

Possessions: Omitted]

After he acquired his merchant identity, the husky unlocked a new lottery wheel. A draw actually cost as much as one on the highest-tier wheel, so a curious Tetsuya tried a ten-pull.

The result was a whole assortment of business-related skills and some items.

These included methods for locating mineral veins, the Steel Smelting Method, and so on.

Although it was a little expensive, Tetsuya found the price acceptable. After all, these things could make him money.

Anything that could make money was a good thing.

Over the years, he had also learned to control his ever-growing strength. With both the Evil God Immortal Body and the Sage Body, he had already been impossible to kill, and now he healed quickly too. Short of Sealing Jutsu, killing him would be next to impossible.

Between the enormous amount of chakra his Sage Body provided and the N-card chakra he had won through the lottery, he no longer knew just how vast his chakra reserves were. He was probably close to catching up with Hashirama Senju.

Still, compared with all the ninjutsu and chakra he had gained, he liked the Sharingan he had obtained from Izuna even more.

People said the Sharingan were eyes that reflected the soul. Although he had obtained Izuna's Mangekyō, his abilities were ones even Izuna, an Uchiha, had never heard of.

His left eye's ability was called Eternal Divine Kingdom, meaning a divine realm that existed for eternity. It sounded badass, but after learning what it did, Tetsuya preferred to call it the Iron Man Duel Arena.

Put simply, as long as he could see his opponent, he could activate the Dōjutsu and pull them into a divine kingdom of his own.

Within that divine kingdom, he would constantly steal his opponent's chakra and stamina.

It was the ultimate ability for one-on-one fights, far more obnoxious than Obito's Kamui Dimension.

Still, Kamui had its own advantages. It could pull anything into its space.

His Eternal Divine Kingdom could only pull in people, and he needed a target to activate it. Of course, anything the target was carrying could be pulled in too.

Unlike him, Obito could enter and leave the Kamui Dimension freely, become intangible to avoid damage, and even use it as portable storage.

Ugh, thinking it over carefully, wasn't this actually worse than Kamui?

Although he could constantly steal his opponent's chakra and stamina inside the divine kingdom, he was never short on chakra in the first place. With his Sage Body and massive chakra reserves, who could beat him in a contest of chakra unless they had a Reanimated Body and an infinite supply?

Besides, he would only grow stronger in the future. It felt as though he would have no use for this ability.

But he had another ability. Mirror Beyond the Clouds, the Dōjutsu of his right eye, was much more interesting.

Mirror Beyond the Clouds could create an identical replica of anyone he had seen. The replica possessed all the original's abilities and was controlled by Tetsuya's thoughts.

Naturally, the ocular power consumed varied according to the strength of the person being copied.

At present, he felt that copying a Kage Level fighter would be no problem—someone like Hiruzen Sarutobi, for instance.

But if he tried to copy Hashirama at his peak, his Mangekyō's current ocular power probably would not be enough. Even if he managed to create the replica, he would likely be unable to sustain it after just a few ninjutsu.

Still, ocular power could be increased. Ever since he had resurrected Izuna, Doggo had thoughtfully added ocular power to the grand lottery wheel's rewards.

The filler reward of 0.5 units of chakra had also become 0.5 Sasuke units of ocular power.

Who did that 0.5 Sasuke refer to? The Sasuke of the future, of course.

To be honest, though, Tetsuya felt that Sasuke had not possessed much ocular power during his Mangekyō days. He had nearly blinded himself after using Amaterasu only a few times.

But that did not matter to Tetsuya. Every round of draws gave him several of those 0.5 rewards anyway.

Some more time passed, and Tetsuya finally abandoned the idea of opening branches based on his current business model.

He had realized that the Chiba Grand Hotel's success would be difficult to replicate in other cities in the Land of Fire.

After all, even the Land of Fire's second-largest city did not have nearly as many nobles and wealthy people as the capital.

If he continued opening branches on the same scale as the Chiba Grand Hotel in the capital, he would probably end up with nothing but losses.

In the end, he settled for the next best option and followed his earlier plan to open ramen shops in several larger cities.

He did not handle such matters in person, however, leaving them directly to his shadow clones.

At his current level, even his shadow clones possessed astonishing combat strength.

Time flew by, and the people of Konoha had all but forgotten that someone named Chiba Tetsuya had once lived in their village.

Teuchi's family had taken Tetsuya's place in their memories.

The only people who still remembered Tetsuya were the few who had often associated with him in the past.

Teuchi's family and Hatake Sakuya, for instance.

Even Jiraiya and his two companions had tucked Tetsuya away in a forgotten corner of their memories.

After all, they had grown up too. They were no longer ordinary academy students, but ninja who had begun going on missions. More stories had entered their lives, and those ordinary, less important things from the past were gradually forgotten in a corner.