Are formulas important?
If you say important, they're very important. If you say unimportant, also unimportant!
Important because this thing broke through the window paper, representing creativity.
I don't tell you, you'll never know!
Unimportant because just having the formula is useless!
What truly has value is the prepared product!
Wanting to prepare the product requires not just the formula but also every single item the formula involves!
These two are indispensable!
Just like the medicinal bath formula Aoha discovered from [Complete Basic Naval Physical Training Method], without money to purchase medicinal ingredients, it was just waste paper!
If he had plenty of money, he naturally could enjoy it alone.
But the problem was that he was poor!
If not for risking life and death fighting the Uchiha once, obtaining one hundred thousand ryo compensation, he couldn't even afford one medicinal ingredient set, much less use it!
So taking it out to exchange for all resources he could currently use was the most correct and the smartest method.
He had no losses whatsoever while obtaining many good things he could use now. He could also harvest Hokage and many people's favourable impressions, increasing his importance and weight. Simultaneously, he could opportunistically cling to powerful backers, making the Uchiha want to trouble him cautiously...
Benefits were truly endless!
So he got a bit carried away until hearing Mikawa-jonin's dry cough. Only then did he notice Minato's gradually darkening expression.
"Uh, did I raise too many small requests..."
The requests were indeed all small, but couldn't withstand being truly numerous. A full dozen or twenty. Truly gave him a headache!
So Minato cleared his throat, not preparing to let Aoha continue.
"I know all these requests you raised. However, what I can promise you is only giving you certain training resources monthly. Too much won't work! As for the medicinal bath supply, this request is reasonable, can be satisfied. But can only give you one package daily. You also said that this item, long-term use will produce certain drug resistance. Recommending once daily use. You said this yourself. Don't tell me you don't remember?"
What else could Aoha say? Only blaming himself for being loose-lipped. Could only dejectedly nod.
Though the vast majority of conditions were lightly swept away by Minato's single sentence, the most basic bottom line was still preserved.
Monthly training resource allocation, just this one item could save him several tens of thousands of ryo. Moreover, as time passed, he'd earn only more!
As for medicinal bath supply, needless to say. Not only solving his immediate urgent need, but also saving one hundred fifty thousand ryo monthly. For him, this was simply a huge sum!
Must know even Mikawa-jonin, working hard an entire year, only earned three or four million ryo, but still obtained by risking enormous danger doing missions.
And him?
Not needing to do anything, annually receiving training resources (including medicinal baths) worth over two million ryo for free.
Simply wonderful~
Of course, this business could earn far more than this.
But so what?
He, a small brat, couldn't swallow such a huge cake. Better taking it out to share, nicely letting himself eat full without overstuffing.
Moreover, no pressure whatsoever. If the sky collapsed, there was still the Hokage and them holding it up.
Greed was original sin!
However, setting sky-high prices, paying on the spot, Aoha still strived for more: "Actually, the extra portion I wanted was prepared for Mikawa-jonin. Mikawa-jonin helped me greatly. I've always wanted to repay him..."
Silently standing aside like a wooden statue, Mikawa trembled hearing this sentence, but still said coolly without expression: "I don't need..."
But after finishing, seemingly feeling this cold tone might make Aoha misunderstand something, he immediately added a superfluous explanation: "My taijutsu is very ordinary. Normally also don't use these medicinal ingredients. No need for village expenses."
He spoke truthfully. Already nearly 40 years old, his physical condition long since set. Moreover, he wasn't a taijutsu-focused ninja. Daily training was always moderate. Naturally didn't need to use medicinal bath methods to strengthen himself.
Ultimately, the medicinal bath Aoha provided was most suitable for foundation-building children, then body-technique ninja like Gai. Help for others wasn't great, but also not completely useless.
People like Mikawa-jonin, conscientious, dedicating their entire lives to the village, naturally wouldn't waste village resources for such trivial gains. This had nothing to do with whose goodwill. Purely awareness issues!
Meanwhile, Minato earnestly considered...
Obviously, Aoha's wanting to repay Mikawa-jonin's approach greatly suited his appetite, also giving him new impressions of Aoha.
This is a good child who knows gratitude!
Though causing trouble abilities were somewhat large, also somewhat vindictive...
But he's a good child!
Plus, Mikawa-jonin, he also greatly appreciated. Moreover, one of his own...
So he decided.
"Mm, Mikawa-jonin reported meritorious service. Since you don't need this, then exchange it for another reward. I, in the Hokage's name, permit you to select one ninjutsu from the village's recorded collection to learn. How about it? Satisfied with this reward?"
This method didn't set precedents either. Many ninja in the village, after establishing great merit, could learn corresponding ninjutsu as remuneration or rewards.
After all, reaching the jonin stage, money and such were no longer their first pursuit targets.
Various ninja villages' collected numerous ninjutsu naturally came in handy at this time.
Of course, some dangerous forbidden jutsu, major clans' secret techniques and such definitely weren't included. Even S-rank ninjutsu numbered almost none. But so many ninjutsu, even just A-rank and below, were sufficient.
After hearing this news, Mikawa-jonin was somewhat dazed.
He wasn't without selecting ninjutsu before, but those were all rewards obtained after painstakingly completing difficult missions.
Yet this time, just leading the way, moving lips, saying two sentences yielded such rewards. This truly made him somewhat mentally confused.
Though Mikawa-jonin's personality was rather rigid, he wasn't foolish.
Nobody disliked having too many ninjutsu. Moreover, it could improve his strength. So after hesitating, he still couldn't refuse this temptation.
Moreover, he knew this harvest was completely because of Aoha beside him.
This feeling was very strange...
Just like you selflessly helped a destitute vagrant, then the next day this vagrant found you, even gave you a box of gold bars, then while you were dumbstruck, bashfully said: "Thanks!"