"Renya-san, the medical fees!"
Tsunade hurried over to Renya with Sasuke and Boruto, unceremoniously stretching out her hand as she loudly demanded payment.
Renya: "???"
Medical fees? What medical fees?
He didn't even ask Tsunade for help—on what basis should he be paying medical fees?
But when he looked at the two people behind Tsunade, he immediately understood.
"Boruto, didn't I tell you to go to the Konoha Hospital?"
Renya said with some annoyance.
Originally, going to the hospital wouldn't cost anything. Now, he was being extorted by Tsunade instead.
This girl had probably lost badly in gambling recently—most likely she was about to demand an outrageous price.
"I thought Tsunade-san would treat me for free…"
Boruto said weakly.
In his timeline, Tsunade-san also seemed to charge injured patients for treatment.
Sasuke, who had just woken up, hadn't grasped the situation yet. He assumed it was just a normal medical fee—at most a few hundred thousand ryō.
"How much? I'll pay."
After all, Tsunade treated him. No matter what, it shouldn't be Renya's responsibility to pay.
If this guy paid, then Sasuke would have no grounds to cause trouble.
Tsunade's eyes lit up when she heard that. She hadn't expected this shabby-looking guy with one missing arm to actually be able to pay his own medical fees.
If she'd known, she wouldn't have come all this way.
"Three million ryō." Tsunade extended her hand. "Pay up!"
With this money, she would have the capital to head to the casino and win everything back.
Today, she was definitely going to win back everything she had lost—with interest.
Those lost funds were just temporarily stored in the casino anyway.
If she quit gambling, then she'd truly never get them back.
Sasuke: "???"
Three million ryō? Isn't this robbery?
Where would he even get that much money?
He had earned some money while wandering before, but after returning to the village, he discovered that his house still had a mortgage.
As a husband, he couldn't possibly let Sakura handle it alone, right?
So he handed over all his money to Sakura to pay off the mortgage.
Now he was completely broke—emptier than empty.
Three million… he'd probably have to pawn his Sharingan to Orochimaru to get that kind of money…
"Forget it, I'll pay."
Seeing Sasuke's awkward situation, Renya knew he had no money.
"Tch, if you've got no money, why pretend to be such a big shot?" Tsunade said irritably. "Just wasting my time!"
She looked down on Sasuke's behavior of acting tough while being broke.
Only Boruto shrank his neck slightly. If he remembered correctly, Tsunade initially only asked for 100,000 ryō…
As for why she suddenly raised the price after hearing Renya-san's name, he guessed she probably took Renya as a sucker.
"Here. Don't go gamble it away again." Renya wrote out a check for five million ryō. "Gambling really can ruin a family."
He genuinely feared that one day Tsunade might lose so badly that she'd sell off the house he gave her.
At that point, she might end up homeless.
Poor Dan Katō—working himself to the bone doing missions every day, yet his earnings weren't even enough for Tsunade to squander in a couple rounds at the gambling table.
"Renya-san, you don't understand." Tsunade happily took the check, patting her chest as she swore confidently,
"I'll definitely win it back today! When I make money, I'll treat you to a meal!"
Renya: "…"
Treat me to a meal? I'd be lucky if you don't make me cook.
As for winning it back? Don't even think about it.
Whenever Tsunade wins a bet, something bad always follows. Fortunately, she almost never wins at the gambling table.
So as long as you don't gamble with her directly, there's no problem at all!
"Fine, as long as you're happy."
Renya had completely run out of ways to deal with Tsunade's gambling addiction.
If anyone was to blame, it was Hashirama-sama—always dragging little Tsunade into playing dice when he had nothing better to do.
Now the grandfather and granddaughter duo were famously known in Konoha as walking cash cows.
A few years ago, there was a gambling addict in the village who played a few rounds with them at the table.
Later, he somehow bought a luxury house and started living a good life with his wife and children, never stepping into a casino again.
Every time he saw Tsunade and Hashirama on the street, he would greet them warmly, calling them benefactors.
Since then, Renya never gave Senju Hashirama any money, instead entrusting the household funds to Uchiha Madara.
If Hashirama wanted money to gamble, he had to ask Madara.
If Madara was in a good mood, he'd give him a few hundred thousand ryō. If not, no amount of pleading would work.
Hashirama had secretly come to Renya several times to complain, saying Madara had changed and refused to give him money.
In the end, Senju Tobirama had to step in and drag him away…
As for these problem children at home, Renya truly didn't know what to say.
In Orochimaru's words—Konoha might as well just collapse already!
"Goodbye, Renya-san! Just wait for my good news!"
With that, Tsunade left happily.
Renya shook his head helplessly. The money he just gave her would soon come back to him.
Tsk, what a simple and unpretentious investment.
If Tsunade wins, she treats him to a meal. If she loses, he loses nothing.
Well, whatever—he did care about the younger generation.
"Um… thank you."
Uchiha Sasuke hesitated for a moment before finally expressing his thanks.
As he grew older, he was no longer as rebellious and arrogant as he had been in his youth. Perhaps he had come to terms with things, or perhaps time had smoothed his edges.
"No need to thank me. If you didn't know me, Tsunade wouldn't have charged you that much."
Renya understood Tsunade's nature—at most she would charge around a hundred thousand ryō, and if she was in a good mood, she might not charge anything at all.
It was only because Boruto knew him that she came over and demanded an outrageous price.
This kind of thing had happened several times before.
Boruto scratched his head awkwardly upon hearing this.
If he had known, he wouldn't have mentioned Renya-san's name.
He hadn't realized that in this timeline, Renya and Tsunade had this kind of relationship.
"Didn't manage to defeat Ōtsutsuki Urashiki?"
Renya suddenly asked.
He recalled that Sasuke had been brought back by Uchiha Fugaku and the others.
That being the case, it seemed he really hadn't beaten Urashiki.
But it was understandable—Urashiki's abilities were unusual, making him difficult to deal with using conventional means.
Moreover, Sasuke had lost an arm, so his strength must have been greatly reduced.
"When you have time, install a prosthetic arm," Renya said. "Losing an arm will definitely weaken your strength."
Uchiha Sasuke fell silent.
After the battle at the Valley of the End, he had chosen not to replace his missing arm as a form of punishment and reminder for his past crimes.
Furthermore, he was worried that implanting Hashirama cells like Naruto might cause rejection.
So he had never gotten a replacement arm…
"If you change your mind, you can ask Orochimaru to cultivate one for you. He's in the lab doing experiments."
Orochimaru would surely be happy to help—after all, it would give him a chance to study an Uchiha with the Rinnegan.
Renya didn't insist, only mentioning it casually.
He believed that Sasuke with both arms could unleash greater power.
Otherwise, he might easily become just another roadside…