Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 59: Raising a Spiritual Beast

"Kagejiro, you have to understand that once you've used Ninja Loans and tasted the sweetness, you won't want to use them again. I've run a lot of scams this year and repossessed dozens of mortgaged properties. How could I not know the lucky mentality of these untouchables?"

"Brother Song, can you please go a little faster? I can't wait any longer."

"Kagejiro, don't worry, there will be a result soon. Umino Sasuke exchanged for a high-level summoning beast. Are high-level summoning beasts so easy to raise? Especially a high-level one with the bloodline of the Desert Giant Falcon. The maintenance cost is a bit too much for us even with our income."

"Yes, if it weren't for the high cost of maintenance and the fact that it takes several years to grow, I would have wanted to exchange for such a powerful summoning beast."

"Kagejiro, you've seen it too. Umino Sasuke has already borrowed 1.5 million ryo from his relatives and friends. He's already deeply in debt. We don't even need to set up a scheme. It won't be long before his funding chain breaks, and he'll definitely have to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. Then all we have to do is take advantage of the situation and give him a ninja loan, hehe..."

When Umino Sasuke heard about the plan of Sarutobi Kagejiro and the others, he wanted to rush in and execute the two men on the spot, but reason suppressed his murderous intent. There was still a long way to go, and their status as a powerful family could protect them for a while, but not for a lifetime.

However, he was also determined not to let them survive this ninja war.

After continuing to gather intelligence and gaining nothing else, Umino Sasuke took Tekudo to the hospital to visit Hinata Asuka and inquire about Yue Guangye's news.

Unfortunately, after helping him pay off his ninja loan, Yue Guangye took a confidential high-level mission without even saying goodbye and disappeared. It seems that he was deliberately avoiding him.

Sasuke Umino had no choice but to come to the summoning beast maintenance base, take out the exchange voucher, and prepare to exchange it for the summoning beast, the falcon.

"This is the Falcon, it doesn't look like it."

Sasuke Umino looked at the summoning beast chicks in the cage, but found that they were completely different from what he had imagined. Less than half a month after hatching, these chicks already weighed more than ten pounds and did not look like falcons at all.

Instead, it looks a bit like an eagle on steroids.

The ninja world is full of wonders. If it were in the previous life, the Hayabusa, which is the fastest and as fast as a bullet, no matter how long it was, could not be as huge as the chick in front of him.

"They're still small now. These five summoning beast chicks all have the blood of the desert giant falcon. When they grow up, their wingspan will be at least 20 meters. They can fly with seven or eight ninjas on their backs without any problem."

The accompanying spiritual animal caretaker explained while carrying two large buckets of fresh animal blood and flesh to feed these falcons.

The caretaker of the spirit animal looked at the falcon that was constantly snatching food and patted the iron cage.

"Dabai, if you take away your brothers and sisters' food again, I won't feed you next time."

As soon as he finished speaking, the snow-white falcon, which was obviously a size larger, immediately became quiet.

Obviously he understood the meaning of the words.

"Huh?" Umino Sasuke's eyes lit up.

As expected of a high-level psychic beast chick, its spirituality is very high. Its intelligence is equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old child.

The summoned beast caretaker noticed Umino Sasuke's interest in Baymax, the Desert Falcon, and kindly reminded him, "Baymax has already shown signs of reversion to its ancestral form. I think it won't take long for him to generate chakra. However, I must remind you that once you exchange something, it's non-refundable. I assume you're still a Chunin, right?"

"What's wrong with being a Chunin? What's the problem?" "It seems you don't know the maintenance procedures for summoning beasts."

The caretaker of the spirit beast was also a chatterbox, so he explained it in detail.

It turns out that the maintenance of a summoned beast is not as simple as signing a contract with a sealing scroll, especially for a giant summoned beast.

Small psychic beasts are easy to deal with. You can always keep them with you. They don’t eat much, so the cost of maintaining them is not high.

But giant spirit beasts are a different story. The amount of food they eat alone is a huge expense. It’s okay for vegetarian spirit beasts, but for pure carnivorous spirit beasts like the falcon, the maintenance cost is at least several times higher.

Just look at this white falcon in front of us. It eats over a thousand taels of meat every day, which is thirty thousand taels a month.

This is still the fledgling stage. When it grows to a hundred kilograms, it will cost at least 300,000 taels a month, which is 3 million taels a year. This does not include the various miscellaneous expenses of the Konoha Summoning Beast Breeding Base.

Fortunately, when it reaches adulthood, the spirit beast has acquired a certain self-protection ability and can be raised in a place with abundant food resources.

When needed, use psychic techniques to summon it out. Otherwise, if you keep maintaining it like this, anyone will go bankrupt.

"If you let our Konoha Spirit Beast Breeding Base take care of your chicks during their fledgling, juvenile, and sub-adult stages, you can get a discount of 9%. If you don't have enough money, you can even take out a loan. However, I don't recommend taking out a loan. You should do what you can."

"I plan to keep it with me and take care of it myself for a while."

"Are you on a mission on the front lines? These falcons are still in a rapid growth phase. If they're hungry one day and hungry the next, it will seriously affect their development. I suggest you reconsider this."

The summoned beast caretaker wanted to continue persuading, but was still rejected by Umino Sasuke.

The maintenance cost that seems very expensive to others is not a problem at all for him.

If it were in Konoha, it would be a considerable expense, but on the front line of River Country, which is rich in aquatic products, with the effect of infrasound waves shocking fish, there would not be a shortage of meat.

So, Umino Sasuke called the staff of the Sealing Class and used the advanced psychic scroll to directly contract Baymax.

The contract went very smoothly. However, Dabai was extremely intelligent, had strong ancestral bloodline, and was extremely arrogant. After being forced into the contract, he became very emotional, with a decadent attitude that he could not resist but could adopt a non-violent non-cooperative approach.

Sasuke Umino had no intention of keeping the eagle awake, so he directly unsealed the scroll and took out a large number of various dried fish. He then weighed the high-level summoning scroll in his hand. With a sweet date in one hand and a big stick in the other, the extremely intelligent Baymax quickly made a wise choice and became his summoning beast.

After completing the contract with the summoning beast, Umino Sasuke's purpose of this trip was basically accomplished, and he finally officially entered a rare vacation mode.

Tekudō was still so sensible and familiar with the place. He treated everyone to a one-stop service until the sun was about to set. Then the four of them, along with a dog and a falcon, reluctantly left Shinano Castle and rushed back to the front-line patrol area.

The handover with Ebi's squad went very smoothly, and the Sand Ninja was also very tactful and did not choose his defense zone to break through today.

(End of this chapter)