Selling Jars - 005

Chapter 5 - Courage Cross

"This is a high-purity chakra crystal that only responds to a specific chakra and can be used to restrain individuals. The price is about 3 million ryō." Shen Mo stated the facts. "That's all?" Tsunade asked. "Yes, that is all." Shen Mo replied affirmatively.

Obviously, there was no such thing as a curse upon the necklace. As for the deaths of Nawaki and Katou Dan, there were innumerable people who had lost their loved ones in this world. The necklace wasn't the cause of such misfortune, the world of Naruto was simply that cruel. Tsunade stared at Shen Mo with a frown, clearly annoyed.

"Tsunade-san." He looked at her solemnly, "It should be obvious I'm not a merchant that sells ordinary commodities. There's no way I would fail to do a mere appraisal."

"What a peculiar fellow...."

Tsunade tightly grasped the necklace in her hand, having mixed feelings in her heart. The necklace belonged to her grandfather. Of course, she didn't believe it had any sort of curse on it. However, after getting the confirmation from Shen Mo, the dark clouds shrouding her heart got stronger instead of lessening.

"Give me more jars!" She shouted in annoyance and drank all the sake from her bottle. Her face was flushing red as she threw away the empty bottle, "Shizune, bring out more sake." Shizune looked like she wanted to say something but decided against it. She stood up, bowed slightly to Shen Mo before leaving and came back a bit later.

With the way Tsunade was currently, Shen Mo was sure that he should be able to hit it big tonight. Some people like to roll the gacha when they are in a bad mood, hoping to get some good rolls that could improve their mood. Of course, if they are unlucky in that instance, their mood will only keep worsening. So, he needed to prepare something good for Tsunade this time.

Shen Mo took out a scroll and put away the pile of items he had just gotten. "Don't just sit there stupidly, let's drink together." Tsunade smashed a jar and glanced at Shen Mo, "In business, one must accompany their clients to drink."

Shen Mo felt helpless. He had too many secrets so he couldn't afford to drink casually. However, he didn't refuse her. "In that case, I shall respectfully take you up in your offer." He took a small sip from the wine glass Shizune handed over to him. He had used some TP to buy a pill that would keep him sober and ate it, so that he wouldn't get drunk.

"Good!" Tsunade smashed another jar and started excitedly perusing the item inside. Shen Mo gazed at her silently. This woman was extremely popular among Naruto fans. She was an old woman in her fifties with a blunt and short-tempered personality that beat up whoever annoyed with her fists. Not to mention, she was addicted to gambling and spent money like water. However, her weak-to-strong and gentle-to-rough sides did form a good contrast. And more importantly--

Shen Mo glanced down a bit, Her biggest charm are obviously those.

"Boy, what's this?" Tsunade grabbed Shen Mo's shoulder and leaned over, shaking the bottle in her hand while smelling of alcohol. "Uh." Shen Mo's expression was slightly unnatural but he quickly recovered, "It is Body Forging  Liquid. If taken consistently every time one takes a bath, even the average person can have a shinobi like physique. It is quite useful for ninja specializing in taijutsu."

Even if this wasn't a world of immortal cultivation, this old woman's body was quite soft.

"Hoh, good stuff! Shizune, I'll give it to you." Tsunade threw it to Shizune in a good mood. In this batch of jars, Shen Mo had inserted things useful to ninjas. Although, the items were bargain-priced goods costing around 600 TP, one could get stuff from magic and immortal cultivation worlds at about the same price. Even the quite valuable Red Potion from Overlord cost only 688 TP.

After the spoils of war, Tsunade gave knowledge worth 8 million ryō or 300,000 TP.

Nightfall. Broken clay jars, various medicines and medicinal materials lay separately. Tsunade looked quite satisfied. She still had 500,000 ryō in her hand. "One more batch!"

"Tsunade-san." Shen Mo said, "Congratulations, you have now purchased more than 20 sets of Rank 1 jars in total. So you have gotten the qualifications of purchasing Rank 2 jars."

"Rank 2 jars?" Tsunade questioned. "That's right." Shen Mo took out a scroll, "A single Rank 2 jar costs 500,000 ryō. Even though the items in Rank 1 jars were somewhat rare, they were still only minor things. The real treasures that can't be found elsewhere are in higher ranked jars."

"Minor things?" Tsunade narrowed her eyes slightly. Her mind that was almost fully clouded due to being drunk, regained some clarity. The medicines and herbs she had gotten, even for her it wouldn't be easy to acquire them by herself. These items were good enough to cause shock in the Great Shinobi Villages. Maybe even have dispute over them to obtain their production methods. But such items were only minor things in Shen Mo's view?

"Give me one then." Tsunade's interest was obviously piqued. Shen Mo opened a scroll and a jar double in size from the previous ones appeared. Tsunade broke it without a moment's hesitation. A cross-shaped necklace (worth 6,000 TP) was within it.

"Congratulations!" Shen Mo said a bit loudly as he smiled, "I hadn't expected the special item, Courage Cross, to appear within the first rank 2 jar!"

"Courage Cross?" Tsunade picked up the necklace and tried to scrutinize only to give up and ask, "So, what is its use?"

"As the name suggests, it can increase the courage of the wearer." Shen Mo explained, "So long as it is worn on the body, one's fear will dissipate to a certain extent and they will have more courage to face misfortune. This kind of spiritual blessing item is rare. It is worth almost 700,000 ryō."

An item from some game world that had a special effect of "Courage +2". It happened to be something that would be really useful to Tsunade. She had lost most of her loved ones and as a result had a strong fear of blood. For one of the Legendary Sannin who had made a name for themselves on the battlefield, this was somewhat ironic.

After listening to Shen Mo's explanation, Tsunade stared at the necklace with complicated eyes.

Courage, huh. She put the item on her neck as it lightly collided with ominous chakra crystal necklace.