"Eh? You mean some Gato Company?" A drunken man looked at Kenichi Amamiya with bleary eyes. The stink of alcohol on his breath made Kenichi lean back.
"Yes. Where is Gato Company?" Kenichi looked somewhat disgusted, but he asked again anyway.
He had already arrived in the Land of Waves, yet to his surprise, he had not found Gato's company here. It left Kenichi somewhat at a loss.
Could it be that Gato Company had not yet extended its tentacles into the Land of Waves at this point?
"Never... hic... heard of it." The man let out a drunken belch, then collapsed onto the table and promptly began snoring.
Kenichi scratched his head. It seemed something had changed, though on second thought, it was not all that strange.
Naruto had only just been born. By the time Naruto accepted the Land of Waves mission and came here, he would already be twelve years old. That meant there were still more than eleven years before Naruto made his appearance.
Eleven years was enough time for the world to change beyond recognition.
"My mistake." Kenichi shook his head. Gato Company might not have come to the Land of Waves yet, and whether Gato was even the wealthy tycoon of the future shinobi world was still a question.
That was the trouble with having no network. If there had been an Internet, looking up this information would not have been so difficult.
But without the Internet, even finding out who the richest person in a region was proved difficult.
"Forget it. I'll look around and gather some intelligence along the way." Kenichi shook his head, then casually pricked the man's hand with a needle and collected some blood.
Since he was out here, Kenichi intended to gather more gene information to keep in