"Damn it!"
Tsunade raised her fist, clearly a little irritated.But looking at Cale's innocent face, she dropped her hand.
It were times like this that showed the benefits of the previous middle man argument.
Whatever the luck of the customer was, it had nothing to do with him.
"You still have it here, I mean this medicinal jar."
Tsunade stared hard at Cale, she felt a pressure building in her heart and had to open the jar again to vent it.
"Of course."
Cale nodded in response. He couldn't have been more aware of the sentiment.
The more you open something good, the more you want to open it.
"Shizune."
Tsunade gulped down a large gulp of wine and raised her hand, "Pay up!"
"Tsunade-sama." Shizune's sultry voice came, "There's no more money."
"What?" Tsunade blinked, a little dumbfounded.
"Have you forgotten how much you lost yesterday?" Shizuku's face was full of sorrow.
"…"
Cale was also a bit dumbfounded.
Excluding those two freebies, Tsunade's spendings only amounted 400,000 after just opening eight jars which when translated into trading points, was only about 24,000.
And there was no more money?
The best medical ninja, one of the three legendary sannin, and the princess of the Senju clan, and this was all she had?
"Hahaha..."
Tsunade had a few embarrassed laughs before slapping her palm on the floor with a bang, leaning forward and coming up to Cale and saying viciously, "Credit!"
"…"
Cale's face instantly darkened, "I'm really sorry, small business, no credit."
Of course that was a straight up lie cooked up by Cale, he could credit easily but Tsunade had too many debts.
…Just look at the misery of the debt collectors in the original. How many years of chasing did they have to do before Tsunade had paid it back?
"Hey hey, don't be so petty."
Tsunade grumpily slapped Cale's shoulder twice with a surprisingly strong hand, "Do you know who I am, Tsunade, one of the three legendary sannin, you know? And you're worried that I'll owe money and not pay?"
'You won't owe money and not pay it back, but you will owe it for a few years before you pay it back...'
Cale didn't say the spiteful words out loud, just shook his head firmly.
Non-negotiable!
He wasn't worried about Tsunade giving him a tiny punch or something in annoyance either, the Vajra Amulet he bought would do its job.
"Sheesh." Tsunade nodded in displeasure.
She wouldn't go so far as to say she'd force it, but it was kind of hard to keep opening cans without money.
"Granted, but there are other objects that can be exchanged."
Cale added, "Knowledge, items…Either way, things are fine, but the value is up to me."
"Oh?" Tsunade seemed to take some more interest, "It's up to you to decide? If it's something you don't understand, how are you going to decide the value?"
"I naturally have a solution."
The corner of Cale's mouth curled into a mysterious smile, "It's guaranteed to be of fair value, and if you have any objections, you can also not exchange it."
It was another perk of the system.
'Free appraisal.'
Things that are determined to be trade items will be identified by the system.
"Shizune, show him the loot from last time."
Tsunade said with her arms around her chest, turning to Shizune, the word loot bitten hard.
Although Cal had surprising products, He, however, was an ordinary man with no chakra and flabby muscles, of that, she could still be sure.
"Yes, Tsunade-sama." A short while after Shizune got up and left, she came over with some items.
Although, Tsunade has left Konoha already, there was still no shortage of some enemies. These scrolls were the spoils of war from them.
"Let's see how much these can be worth?"
Tsunade's face held a hint of teasing.
These were ninja items — Ninjutsu, bladed weapons and similar stuff.
How coulf someone who was not a ninja determine their value?
Cale, raising two fingers, held them up in front of his eyebrows and whispered.
"Omniscient Eye, open!"
In a flash, in the center of his forehead, golden patterns slowly emerged in streams of light, and an unspeakable aura filled the air.
Tsunade's teasing expression stiffened on her face.
'This is…what?'
She looked at the pattern on Cale's forehead, which seemed to be in the form of an eye. Looking straight at it like that, even she felt a tingle.
Shizune even lowered her head in indescribable emotion.
Dignity.
Even without knowing what it was, she felt an aura of dignity.
One cannot look straight at it, one cannot disrespect it.
Tsunade had never seen or heard of such an eye pattern before, and what was this man just talking about? Omniscient all-seeing eyes?
Cale took in the expressions of these two people.
It was quite satisfying.
The pattern, if it were a modern person, would probably be able to identify what the pattern is.
It was the one hung around Dr. Strange's neck — Eye of the Agamotto.
However, Cale merely spent a full twenty-five thousand trade points through the trading system to customize a futile mechanism that exuded a hint of dignified arcane aura, and that was all it did.
It was not cheap, but it's worth it.
It was also an "excuse" for being able to determine the value of the items, and even, in some verbal exchanges, to reveal abilities such as "future vision".
"Three Ninjutsu Scrolls."
Cale pretended to look at those things and read out the appraisal results given by the system, "They are the C-rank Earth Transporting Earth Flowing Wall Technique, the C-rank Earth Transporting Splitting Earth Turning Palm Technique, and the B-rank Water Transporting Explosive Water Charge Wave, and among the B-rank jutsu, there is also a jutsu insight written down by a superior ninja, and among those bladed weapons, only one is an elite bladed weapon, with a total value of ... Three million six hundred thousand or so."
These were worth over 200,000 trading points in the system.
Rather, there was a bit more than Cale had expected. That was not all, B-rank jutsu was already considered powerful in this world, and the average upper ninja is only able to master some of them.
By the time you get to A-grade, the price increases dramatically, as it's mostly some untold secrets.
"You didn't even need to open it to look at it?"
Tsunade gave Cale a deep look, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly took off the necklace around her neck, "This necklace, how much is it worth?"
"Tsunade-sama, this is ..."
Next to her, Shizune couldn't help but exclaim.
However, Tsunade didn't reply or even look at her, just stared dead at Cale.
There seemed to be a strong sadness in her eyes.
The unidentified necklace.
Cale looked at the necklace, which was tied by a rope and seemed to be some kind of ore-like necklace, and the plot information about it came to his mind.
The relic of the first Hokage.
A chakra crystal that only reacts to the chakra of the first generation Hokage.
Tsunade once gave it to her little brother, Nawaki, who then died the next day.
She later gave it to her lover Kato, who also died, with his kidneys flying off.
That's why this necklace was called the "Necklace of Death" by Tsunade.
So, what was the real answer?