"Cool. After that, pin Doctor Yakushi down and beat him like a festival horse until he gives us the results of his tests on Noburi." His eyes went wide as he suddenly noticed his wording. "Not literally! Don't literally injure him, just convince him, in socially acceptable ways that will not cause us problems, to stop faffing around and tell us what we need to know."
"On it." The redhead was uncharacteristically serious, bordering on grim. Hazō made a mental note to keep track of that; the last thing he needed was his social expert breaking from one too many accumulated shocks.
I'd just like to point out how awesome Hazō is being here. Noticing his potential fuck up and correcting it, and then noticing that Mari might be being unstable. He's come a long way from being Mr. Foot-In-Mouth, and it's showing.
"Pfah!" Noburi made an effort to shake off the aggravation. "I guess I'll just have to settle for dropping Gamabunta on your head any time you and your clones get too uppity, Mr Mew. Since, y'know, I'm going to be the most utterly overpowered Summoner there's ever been." He grinned. "Seriously, I'll charm the socks off the Toads and have them lining up to make contracts with me, and then I'll be able to summon ALL of them. An entire clan of Toads, raining down on my enemies! Beat that, Mr Me-And-My-Clones-Are-So-Awesome."
We might want to make sure Noburi's feeling okay about this. He seems like he might be legitimately worried about falling behind. Let's not let one of the few pillars of sanity in Gōketsu end up like the rest of us.
- Focus on getting the Merchant Council to authorize the ideas you've already pitched them. (1. The storage seal subscription service and 2. the storage seal bank.) If you leave them alone then it will probably take them a week-ish to decide if they want to let you do one or both of those. If you sic Mari on them that can probably be sped up.
- Pitch new ideas to the Merchant Council.
We should hold off on 2 until after 1 is complete. If we start pushing too many ideas through the MC at once they'll freak out. If we let them pass these first two ideas though, and let them see how the world doesn't immediately go crazy, they'll be much more likely to accept the other ideas.
Try to organize a jutsu exchange pool as described in the chapter
This actually sounds like a very interesting idea.
Try to push your way into the negotiations happening with Rock
NOOOOOOOOPE.
Send out some of your ninja, possibly with Noburi and his mist drain, to capture chakra critters and start building your chakra farm
Hmmm. This is a lot more viable now, since we can keep the enclosure outside of Leaf and away from the Shimura compound.
As a start for brainstorming, how about:
- Location: Far away from the Shimura compound and the walls of Leaf.
- Structure: dig a wide but very shallow (~1-2 ft deep) pit. Make MEW walls. Make sure the walls are extra thick.
- Water supply: Divert a small stream to run through the pit, keeping it submerged in water at all times. Make MEW grates in the wall to allow the water in one side and out the other.
- Chakra Beasts: Use chakra drain to collect plant and fish type chakra beasts. Ideally ones that don't prey on each other. Make sure that none of them can climb the walls, and that everything is large enough that it can't escape through the grate.
- Feeding: Climb the walls, throw in whatever you think they eat. The plants should be able to survive on sunlight, dirt, and water. The fish are the main things you'll need to feed. Probably cut up some chakra beasts and toss them in every day (drain first).
- Draining: Noburi can stick his finger in the stream (probably best to stand upstream) and drain the inhabitants.
- Adding More Beasts: Drain, and toss over the walls. In the long run we'll probably have a lot of the inhabitants die out or eat each other, but I expect enough to survive that they can repopulate it through mating.
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