I Began Selling Jars from Naruto World

Chapter 3 - The Charm of Jars

Tsunade began to think if there was enough of this Water of Life, what sort of miracles would be possible. Immortality? Hyper Regeneration? Becoming undead? The way she looked at Shen Mo changed noticeably. Someone who call sell this type of thing couldn't possibly be an ordinary merchant.

"Little Brother, can you tell me where you bought these types of jars from?" Tsunade asked while rocking the bottle in her hand.

Little Brother, heh. It seems like the shock she had received from the Water of Life was bigger than he had imagined. The smile on Shen Mo's face remain unchanged as he said, "Sorry, that's a business secret. We signed a contract that doesn't allow us to disclose such information."

Tsunade's eyes narrowed slightly. We? So that means there are more merchants selling such jars. She started thinking there might be some sort of mysterious organization planning something behind the scenes. However, she stopped that train of thought there. After all, she had already left Konoha. Whatever happened in the world had nothing to do with her. "Forget it. I just asked casually. That's all." She emphasized the last bit as if trying to convince herself. The successive deaths of her younger brother and lover had devastated her too much.

"In that case, I must take my leave." Shen Mo brought out a rope and pretended to slowly tie up the remaining eight jars. "Wait a moment." Tsunade called out as he had expected. The bait had been swallowed. Shen Mo rejoiced on the inside as he raised his head and asked, "Miss, what's the matter?"

"Carrying so many jars on your back must be tough. How about you sell them to me at a cheaper price?" Tsunade was looking at the remaining jars in anticipation. Putting aside the matters she didn't want to think about, she was still quite curious about these jars. Could they have more amazing things besides the Water of Life? Not knowing the contents was one of the biggest charms of the jars and obviously the gambling aspect as well.

"Cheaper is impossible." Shen Mo rejected with an apologetic look, "It is among the rules. Sorry about that. In fact the two jars from before, I will have to make up for their cost from my own pocket." Preferential benefit cannot be given lightly on this matter. Otherwise, it would become a huge issue after becoming more familiar with others. Shen Mo must keep on propagandizing a point. 'I am just a wage earner with little power. Cannot take responsibility on the matter of jars sales.'

"Tsk." Tsunade was obviously somewhat upset but didn't force it. She waved her and said commandingly, "Shizune, bring out the money."

"But Tsunade-sama...," Shizune hesitated. Tsunade, being a gambling addict, was in a lot of debt. So they only had some living expenses left. "It doesn't matter, it isn't a loss to buy such jars." Tsunade shook the bottle in her hand as her eyes glinted with excitement.

The second charm of the jars: No loss! One would feel that the contents inside have some value without considering that those things may not be useful to them at all. Shen Mo was sure of it. Princess Tsunade had already fallen for it.

"Thanks, this will help a lot." Shen Mo happily received the money from Shizune. The system in his mind determined that the transaction was established and he handed out the jars, "Can you let me see what's in the jars as well? If there are some rare items, I could explain them to you."

Tsunade nodded indifferently and pressed down her palm, crushing the jar. 10,000 ryō again? Tsunade was annoyed a bit and immediately switched to the next jar. It was a packet of powder this time.

"This is the Powdered Root of Asphodel which costs about 30,000 ryō." Shen Mo didn't wait for Tsunade and explained right away, "By mixing it an infusion of Wormwood, you can make a colorless and tasteless sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death." It was something from Harry Potter. In fact, five out of the eight jars had potions or herbs from Harry Potter. They were Healing Potion, Petrification Potion and finally, the most expensive of them, costing about 80,000 ryō, the Veritaserum. Obviously, the real value in the System is about 10,000 ryō which is 600 Transaction Points, satisfying the one-fifth minimum value for transactions.

"Profited big-time!" Tsunade's excited voice and Shen Mo's inner voice overlapped. "Managed to get such mysterious potion and medidcinal herb." Tsunade was looking at Shen Mo with a face flushed with excitement. She had managed to gain quite a bit for someone who lost in gambling most of the times.

"Your luck is really good." Shen Mo said without hesitation and gave her a look of adulation, "Even if this jar set belonged to the Medicine Series, being able to get so many valuable potions is quite rare."

"Hahaha." Tsunade laughed without restraint totally unlike a lady, and then reached out and smashed the last jar. It was a book. Shen Mo narrowed his eyes. This is the big gift he had prepared.

"What's this?" Tsunade picked it up and glanced through it, "About application of chakra in cell regeneration."

"Ohh, so it's that one!" Shen Mo's acting skill got activated, showing a shocked expression, "This is a precious treasure for medical ninja and it is said that whoever manages to collect the entire series can become the greatest medical ninja!"

"Greatest medical ninja?" Tsunade glanced at Shen Mo and snorted in disdain, "Heh." She was quite the famous medical ninja herself. It seemed like this would be the most useless thing for her. She looked at several lines casually and suddenly, her expression changed.

"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune inquired with a low voice but Tsunade lifted a hand to prevent her from speaking. The room became quiet all of a sudden, only the sound of pages turning could be heard.

This book... Most of the information recorded in it are exactly the same as what I researched and conceived! There are even more additions and interpretations that I hadn't thought of.

Shen Mo watched Tsunade with a smile. Actually, she was the one who had written the book. However, it is supposed to be published by her in future, 15 years to be exact. And it was only a small part of it too. He had spent some Transaction Points to remove any name, date and such information related to the publication. The system truly deserved the "Universal" part of its name.

"Is there more?" Tsunade had already gone through it. The whole thing only had like 10 pages. As a medical ninja, the feeling of not being able to finish the whole thing really irritated her.

"It is part of a series." Shen Mo shakes his head helplessly, "Only available in the Medicine Series jars but collecting all of them would be extremely difficult."

The third charm of jars! Collection! Just like some waifu gacha. A single copy is useless, two copies is lacking in damage, three is just mid and there's no point in having four instead of going for completion.