Chapter 1: Crossing Over and the System

Cale opened his eyes with difficulty, his mind slowly recovering from the depths of darkness, some vigilance making him struggle to discern everything around him.

He saw a strange wooden room covered with a thin layer of quilts. There was no bed, but rather he was lying directly on the ground.

'Tatami?'

He reached out and rubbed his head, trying to get up, but the weakness coming from his torso made him give up on that.

'Right…the System…'

A silent thought went through his head and in the next moment, a faint screen of light opened in his mind, clear as day.

'Sure enough, it isn't an illusion'

Cale didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He was just an ordinary game planner on a certain blue planet known as Earth, and suddenly the system appeared in his vision and started the countdown to 'transfer'.

He could not resist, and only managed to use this so-called "universal trading system" to trade himself a large life insurance policy for his family at the last moment.

This feeling...

"It's terrible." Cale muttered lightly under his breath.

Crossing over into another world with your own cheat was something many people dreamed of, but the problem was that things like systems were absolutely custom-made and there had to be a person or entity behind it.

Cale seemed to be accepting the fact after some thinking, as the saying went:

If you cannot resist, then enjoy it, as long as you don't think too highly of yourself, life is enjoyable everywhere.

"A universal trading system?"

Cale surveyed the functions of this system and came to a conclusion.

'Very clean'

Making a trade with another person, no matter what the trade be, one will recieve something called a trade point in the system, something that can be used to buy everything — really everything within the system's merchant tier.

Cale even saw Doraemon's time machine, you dare believe.

Although the large string of zeros that followed seemed impossible to count, it only appeared to be reasonable to him.

After all — it was a time machine!

The kind of thing that could actually change the past in a meaningful way.

"There should be limits."

Cale felt his mind drifting clearer as he looked at the terms of the deal.

There were indeed restrictions.

The transaction should be voluntary, meaning both parties must give their consent

And the value of the object traded must be limited to a range of one-fifth to five times its original value.

The amount of trading points Cale had currently was — 110,000. The amount was equal to his savings from three years of work before the redemption of the insurance policy that he did.

Judging from the five points for a cup of instant noodles, it seemed the prices were similar.

It was not bad.

"Ah, really, I was so close to winning."

Outside the room, a woman's voice suddenly came, Cale instantly became alert and quickly placed several powerful defensive items in his shopping cart.

The mobile wooden door was opened roughly.

A woman in a pale grey sleeveless outfit appeared at the door, with pale blonde hair, golden eye pupils, and a delicate face.

She was…a cosplayer? She was dressed as Tsunade from the anime Naruto.

Although Cale was not an otaku, he was quite fond of anime as an entertainment, so it was instantly recognizable.

This…

"Yo, you're awake."

The woman dressed like Tsunade seemed happy to see Cale's eyes open and walked over to sit next to him without a lady's image, holding out her hand she continued, "As you can see, I saved you, well, bring the medical fee."

Cale blinked.

From the moment the woman opened her mouth to say her first words, he used thirty thousand trade points and exchanged it for a rough pass in Japanese.

Cale turned his eyes to the other woman that alongside her, yes, dressed the same as Tsunade's disciple, Shizune.

He already had a premonition,

"Here's the deal." Shizune followed and sat down on her knees, "We found you collapsed outside the door and ... brought you in for treatment."

She wouldn't say that Tsunade's exact words were "This guy is a rich nobleman, he's so tender", as she was ready to swindle the treatment money.

"I see." Cale replied in the language he had just learned, "I'll pay for the medical expenses, thanks a million, but could you prepare some food for me first? It's best if it's liquid food."

"Tch, quite the assigner." Clicking her tongue, Tsunade stood up indifferently, "Shizune, I'll leave this guy to you, can't let him get away without paying for his treatment."

She had already examined him before.

The man's muscles were flaccid and there was no chakra in his body — just a common nobleman or a rich man.

Tsunade would have treated some rich people in exchange for some gambling money whenever she got the chance, so pulling Cale in was just a random act.

By comparison, Shizune's attitude was much better towards Cale, and after agreeing, she instructed him not to move around, and then went to prepare some liquid food.

Cale kept watching them leave before his tense nerves relaxed a little.

Looking at the way they looked, them being cosplayers was unlikely, not to mention this setting...

That's...real? He crossed over to the world of Naruto?

"If that's the case, it's rather beneficial."

Cale thought in his head, at this moment, he was not thinking about getting to meet his once favorite character or something, but rather — how to maximize his benefits, with no risk to his life as the basic requirement, and furthermore to enjoy himself.

A world with a familiar plot was certainly much more beneficial than an unfamiliar one!

As an example, selling the "Resurrection Coin" to Tsunade will definitely fetch five times the maximum price. In fact, she would maybe be willing to pay any price, if you disregard the conversion to trading points through the system trading.

Nevertheless, "A deal that satisfies the other party's needs is only the lowest level." The corner of Cale's mouth curled up into a smile, "Completing a deal that the other party doesn't need is the business tactic that maximizes profit."

In his previous world, there was a typical business story called selling combs to monks.

This story was denounced by some richest man as a deception because the monk didn't need a comb at all.

But this deception, in the realm of gaming, it was in abundance.

That's right.

What Cale was referring to is opening the Jar!

Or card draws, chests, packs, whatever, it was all the same, players throw a lot of money into it for what they want, only to get a whole lot of useless crap in return, and willingly even.

As a game planner, Cale couldn't be more aware of such tactics. So, the decision was already made in his mind.

Wasn't Tsunade known as the "legendary sheep"? It would be a shame to just let it go.

After briefly eating some liquid food to regain some strength, Cale placed some life-preserving trade contents in his shopping cart as usual so that he could purchase them for use at any moment, and then, he was ready to start his first trade.

He gave a request to negotiate medical bills and was brought before Tsunade by Shizune.

He had already inquired, the current plot would be after the three battles, the fourth Hokage should have been sacrificed and Tsunade left Konoha.

This legendary one of the three legendary Sannin was sipping a small drink alone, a slight halo of alcohol already surfacing on her ceramic skin, and with her hot body, she was completely unrecognizable as an older woman in her forties.

Even with his vision that has been nurtured by countless movies and televisions, he couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

She was a beauty.

"Boy, you have a funny look in your eyes." Tsunade gave Cale a sidelong glance.

She could naturally see Cale's unconcealed gaze of praise at this moment. Cale just laughed it off. It didn't matter. The real fun was going to start now.

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