The old house with Senju, the main meeting hall in the backyard.
The cherry blossom trees in the courtyard swayed in the wind, but the atmosphere inside the hall was extremely eerie.
The originally spacious and polished rosewood conference table.
At this moment, there was neither a combat simulation sand table nor a pile of emergency defense scrolls for the village.
Instead, it took its place.
It was a large, yellowed map covered with dense red circles Kato Yosuke in vermilion ink.
Map showing the distribution of the underground black market and hidden Bounty Station throughout the Land of Fire!
" Senju Kenya! Are you even listening to me?!"
Tsunade, draped in the Hokage cloak, crossed her arms over her ample chest, her eyebrows furrowed in anger.
She slammed her hand on the table, sending the teacup bobbing half a foot into the air.
"I thought you were in such a hurry to call everyone back to the old house to discuss how to set a trap to ambush those arrogant bounty hunters!"
And what did you do?
Tsunade and pointed at the map on the table, veins bulging on her forehead:
"You had Yosuke uncover the hideouts of every underground bank and Bounty Station within the Land of Fire?!"
"What exactly do you want?!"
Shikaku Nara to the side, helplessly fanning himself with a folding fan and rubbing his throbbing temples.
Zabuza Momochi, standing before the steps, rested one hand on his massive, several-ton black iron sword, a bloodthirsty glint of excitement in his eyes.
Bai stood quietly in the corner, holding a freshly sliced, chilled melon in her hands.
As for Senju Kenya, who was at the center of the storm.
He was comfortably propping his feet up on the edge of the long table, wearing flip-flops, with a white jade pipe dangling from his lips.
"Plop, plop."
Thick wisps of smoke rose slowly from the pipe, gathering into tiny smoke rings in mid-air.
Kenya casually forked a piece of melon and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing until the juice splashed everywhere.
"What's the rush, Auntie?"
Kenya slowly swallowed the melon pieces, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing what to have for dinner:
"Waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump is something only a stupid idiot would do."
"Those desperate, penniless thugs are swarming into Konoha, and the village is full of newly built factories and houses. If they accidentally bump into something and break a tile, I'll have to pay to fix it."
Kenya took the pipe out of his mouth, tapped the ash lightly on the edge of the table, and sneered:
"Wouldn't it be easier to just follow the internet connection directly to their headquarters and raid their vault, taking all the money, principal and interest?"
"Not only is it effortless, but you can also make a fortune—it's a win-win situation!"
Robber logic!
A bandit mentality taken to its extreme!
Tsunade was speechless for a long time after being choked by this self-righteous fallacy.
Although she knew this kid was domineering, she never expected his thinking to be so unconventional and unorthodox!
" Yosuke, ignore that old woman."
Kenya turned his head and looked at the guild's chief steward standing next to the map:
"Tell me properly, just how well-established is this so-called Underground Exchange?"
Is he really as incredibly wealthy as the rumors suggest?
Kato Yosuke pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.
A shrewd and excited glint flashed across the lenses of his glasses.
He strode to the front of the long table, picked up a thin wooden stick, and pointed to the depths of the mountain range in the center of the map, which was marked with three huge red circles.
"Boss, gentlemen, please look here."
Yosuke's voice was clear and powerful, echoing throughout the lobby:
"Many people believe that Underground Exchange agencies are merely assassination brokers who act as intermediaries and distribute bounties for wanted criminals."
"But in the eyes of our Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce's professional auditing and intelligence network, this is the largest underground money laundering center and shadow conglomerate in the entire Shinobi World!"
Yosuke cleared his throat and began to unveil the tip of the Iceburg of this vast black market empire:
"The history of the Bounty Station can be traced back to the late Sengoku period, even earlier than the establishment of the Five Great Shinobi Villages."
"Because they have maintained neutrality for many years and only care about money, they have dealt with everyone from daimyo of major countries, exiled nobles, corrupt officials, to missing-nin and gang leaders from various ninja villages."
"Any huge sums of illicit money that cannot be deposited in legitimate banks are laundered and transferred across borders through Underground Exchange channels!"
Yosuke took a deep breath and announced an astonishing astronomical figure:
" The Bounty Station the Shinobi World, but their core main vault is located inside an unnamed underground cavern at the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers!"
"To ensure their credibility in paying out to the top ninjas in the entire Shinobi World, their central treasury maintains a year-round reserve of at least five billion taels of physical gold, bearer gold notes, and high-purity Chakra stones!!"
"Fifty billion taels?!"
Upon hearing this number, Tsunade, who had initially wanted to dissuade him, suddenly had her pupils shrink to the size of pinpoints!
She instinctively clutched her chest, her breath catching in her throat.
Five billion taels of silver!
What does this even mean?!
Even the entire Land of Fire's annual regular fiscal budget is only this size!
Zabuza, standing to the side, gasped in shock, nearly dropping his heavy black iron sword.
"Fifty billion... I spent decades licking blood off the walls of the Land of Water and couldn't even save up ten million taels."
"These Nezumi hiding in the sewers have actually sucked such a terrifying amount of money from the entire Shinobi World?!"
"Not only that."
Yosuke's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he continued to add fuel to the fire:
"This assassination attempt targeting the boss, worth 700 million taels, was jointly funded by exiled nobles from the Land of Fire, the Root remnants' revenge fund, and various other forces."
"According to the ironclad rules of the Bounty Station, for a top-tier kill order exceeding one hundred million taels, the initiator must deposit the entire reward amount in cash into the Bounty Station's vault in advance!"
In other words...
Yosuke grinned, revealing a fox-like smile:
"The seven hundred million taels of cash specifically earmarked to buy off the boss's head is currently neatly stacked in their underground vault, completely untouched!"
After listening to Yosuke's extremely detailed financial analysis.
A brief, deathly silence fell over the entire Senju Hall.
Then.
"Hahaha! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"
Senju Kenya slapped his thigh and abruptly stood up from the leather chair!
A wild laugh, like thunder, swept across the hall, making the roof tiles vibrate and rattle!
Kenya, biting on a white jade pipe, had a chilling, predatory glint in his eyes, like a wolf eyeing a fat sheep.
"A black gold fortune of five billion taels, plus seven hundred million taels of money deposited in advance to buy off lives?!"
Kenya sneered and snapped the folding stick in his hand in two on the table.
"Those Nezumi from the gutter, they think they can buy my life with seven hundred million?"
They've made a huge mistake!
Kenya straightened his chest, and his domineering aura, like that of a god or demon, suddenly filled the hall:
"Since they've put that 700 million into the vault, in my eyes, that money is already my private property!"
"You dare take my money and put a bounty on my head throughout the entire Shinobi World?!"
Looking down from his superior position, Kenya's eyes were filled with the excitement and brutality of a bandit robber.
"Since they dared to set this up, don't blame me for personally going to their door to check the accounts!"
"I'll accept the full seven hundred million. As for the remaining five billion, consider it compensation for the emotional distress caused by their malicious slander and infringement of my portrait rights and reputation!"
With principal and interest, the entire market will be wiped out!
This is an extremely arrogant and domineering robber's logic.
This caused Shikaku Nara, the strategist sitting to the side, to freeze completely in mid-air with his folding fan in his hand.
Shikaku took a deep breath, his eyes no longer showing any resistance, but instead revealing a shocked and analytical light.
yes.
Since the enemy has come prepared, it's better to passively defend on Konoha's home turf and suffer damage.
Why not let Senju Kenya, this walking star destroyer, directly cross borders and sweep across the land!
Once the headquarters of the Bounty Station is destroyed, the assassination supply chain targeting Konoha will be completely severed throughout the entire Shinobi World.
They could even snatch back Konoha a fortune worth 5 billion taels of silver!
This deal... it's an absolute steal!
" Lord Kenya is wise!" Shikaku stood up, bowed deeply, and completely switched sides to support him.
Tsunade rubbed her temples, and although she was cursing "bandit behavior," the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up wildly.
Fifty billion taels... With that money, Konoha could even build its entire city wall out of Pure Gold!
" Zabuza! Haku!"
Kenya suddenly swung his arms, his floral shorts fluttering in the wind, his fighting spirit soaring to the sky:
"Call upon the Chamber of Commerce's heavily armed convoy, and bring sturdy large sacks and heavy iron padlocks!"
Kenya grabbed the white jade pipe and slammed it down on the huge red circle in the center of the map:
"Set off!"
" Bounty Station and rob them in reverse!"
Let's set off to rob the Bounty Station in reverse.