"Boss, the new medicine is selling fast. It's only been ten days, and we've already sold a third of it. We need to restock as soon as possible."
The manager of the pharmacy in the Capital of the Land of Fire spoke to Karn with some excitement. In fact, he had secretly bought two pills and tried them out at a brothel. They really worked well; at least the expressions on the girls' faces hadn't been faked.
If he hadn't still had work to do, he would have wanted to buy a whole box and stay at the brothel for a week.
Karn told the pharmacy manager, "It'll be at least half a month before we can restock. That's the production rate for now. Starting with the next shipment, medicine will keep arriving here without interruption."
"Besides buying medicine, some people have also been asking about you, boss. They put on quite an imposing air and look like retainers of nobles. How should we respond to them?"
"Just ignore them."
Viagra's popularity was well within Karn's expectations. At 150 ryo a pill, it only cost as much as two bowls of ramen. Even commoners could grit their teeth and buy two pills to try.
As for those asking about him, the vast majority were motivated by greed. But Karn's pharmaceutical factories were in the Land of Tea and the Land of Waves. At most, the nobles of the Land of Fire could meddle with his pharmacies.
If they really dared to do that, though, Karn would put their names on Kakuzu's list as well. Over the past two years, quite a few fools had already been converted into income by Kakuzu.
During his time in the capital, Karn's original body generally stayed behind closed doors, either absorbing natural energy or