Today was the day the virtual experience stores officially opened, and the virtual world's Official Server launched.
After inspecting the stores on Konoha Business Street and in the Uchiha Clan Compound, Naruto began looking for employees to help run them.
Robots could handle things like laundry, cooking, serving tea and water, and cleaning.
But minding the store-or rather, working the front desk-wasn't a job for robots.
For starters, robots didn't understand social niceties. Even if the artificial intelligence Wolffy invented was damn impressive, it would still need time to learn and undergo upgrades before it could perform on a level comparable to humans.
So... for now, humans were still the better choice for the front desk.
Naruto thought carefully about who would be suitable.
Before long, several candidates came to mind: Kotetsu, Kotetsu Hagane, Uchiha Makoto, and Uchiha Ryūichi.
Uchiha Makoto and Uchiha Ryūichi went without saying. Aside from Shisui and Itachi, they were the first two to try the Virtual Headsets and awaken their Sharingan.
As for Kotetsu and Kotetsu Hagane, those two were even more famous in Naruto.
From beginning to end, their job was guarding Konoha's gates.
Guarding Konoha's gates actually counted as a mission. As long as nothing unexpected happened, a day of gate duty counted as a D+ to C-Rank mission.
If something did happen, such as discovering an infiltrator from another village or coming under attack by rogue ninja... their mission would only then be upgraded to B-Rank or even A-Rank.
In other words, hiring those two to guard the experience store should be easy. He just had to offer them steady C-Rank earnings.
If a theft occurred while they were on duty, or something went wrong at the experience store due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, Naruto could even go straight to the