Uchiha Naruto wandered aimlessly through the casino, discreetly observing everything around him from behind his sunglasses.
The ceiling was densely packed with cameras glowing red, and several black-clad bodyguards were scattered throughout the corners, scrutinizing any guests who made the slightest unusual move.
There were virtually no blind spots. Under these circumstances, cheating in the casino would be next to impossible.
Uchiha Naruto glanced at the Patek Philippe watch on his wrist. It was only a little past eight in the evening, with over an hour left before Chairman Hyodo's special program began.
With nothing else to do, Uchiha Naruto decided to kill some time in the casino.
He started small, beginning with the pachinko machines.
Pachinko was an immensely popular game in Japan, enjoyed by young and old alike, and its rules were quite simple.
The electronic drawing machines currently in fashion even fired the little steel balls automatically.
Players only needed to launch a steel ball into the drawing area to trigger the slot machine animation in the center of the pachinko machine. If three matching numbers or symbols appeared, the machine's hidden jackpot area would open.
Compared with before, it was much easier to shoot steel balls into the hidden jackpot area, and every ball it swallowed returned a dozen or even several dozen balls.
The hidden jackpot area would also stay open for several minutes. Taking advantage of that opportunity could yield returns of dozens or hundreds of times the original stake in one go, which was part of pachinko's appeal.
Pachinko parlors could be found on practically every street and alley, yet, ironically, Japan was a country that prohibited gambling.
But where there were policies, there were workarounds. Although pachinko parlors could not exchange steel balls for cash on the premises, they could exchange them