It wasn't until Rasa opened the [Exchange] interface that he realized just how absurdly valuable Skill Points really were.
[Exchange Menu – Page 1 / 9,000,000,000+]
-Lightning Chakra Affinity – 10 SP
-Earth Chakra Affinity - 10 SP
-Wind Chakra Affinity – 10 SP
-Fire Chakra Affinity – 10 SP
-Water Chakra Affinity – 10 SP
-One-Tomoe Sharingan – 100 SP
-Two-Tomoe Sharingan – 200 SP
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-Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan (random 2 abilities) – 20,000 SP
-Rinnegan – Both Eyes (30,000 Skill Points)
-Low-Grade Favorability Fruit (1 Skill Point – usable on any target; increases favorability by +2 instantly)
-Mid-Grade Favorability Fruit (2 Skill Points – increases favorability by +5 instantly)
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-Mid-Grade Favorability Doubling Fruit (20 Skill Points – doubles a target's daily favorability gain, up to 100 cap)
-High-Grade Favorability Doubling Fruit (40 Skill Points – doubles a target's daily favorability gain, up to 200 cap)
-Oath of Devotion (20 Skill Points – grants a random 100-favorability from a stunning beauty of random status)
-Instant Max Favorability (600 Skill Points – raises favorability to 300 in 3 seconds; must be used face-to-face)
-Unyielding Devotion (500 Skill Points – raises a female target's favorability to 200 in 10 seconds, with 100x resistance to decline; face-to-face only)
-Eternal Bond (700 Skill Points – raises a female target's favorability to 300 in 3 seconds, with 100x resistance to decline and permanent even through reincarnation; face-to-face only)
Staring at the densely packed Exchange Menu, Rasa could barely believe what he was seeing.
So many powerful and absurdly effective items—many of them costing just a handful of Skill Points.
And after reading through the description of the favorability-based items, a wild but brilliant idea popped into his head.
A different kind of perpetual motion machine.
Rasa took a deep breath, his excitement building.
With this system... I don't even have to worry about my future anymore.
This wasn't just a cheat code—it was a full-blown power fantasy system. All he had to do was patiently build up during the early game.
To be safe, he decided to test his theory and muttered in his mind:
"Redeem one High-Grade Favorability Doubling Fruit and use it on Yashaka."
"Redemption successful. 40 Skill Points deducted. Remaining: 370 SP."
"Usage successful. Yashaka's favorability has increased from 9 → 18!"
"Host has gained 9 Skill Points!"
Just as he'd hoped.
Even favorability gained through items could be converted back into Skill Points.
Rasa's heart skipped a beat in excitement.
By his rough math—
Spending 40 points on a doubling fruit for someone, he'd start getting +2 favorability per day instead of +1, which converted back to +2 Skill Points per day.
In a few days, he'd break even.
But over time? He could get 100+ SP back from a single 40-point investment.
So long as he didn't waste SP early on combat skills or flashy techniques...
And focused purely on grinding up favorability with the right targets…
He'd be snowballing SP in no time.
Give it a few days and he'd be sitting on thousands of Skill Points.
It was basically free money.
Well—not entirely free. He had paid a price to activate the system...
Just one measly year of his lifespan.
But compared to what he was gaining? That was nothing.
Satisfied with the results, Rasa pulled his attention back to more pressing matters: the impending Third Shinobi World War.
He'd seen the Naruto manga and anime multiple times before...
But now that he thought about it, the last time was seven or eight years ago.
Once he got to college, he'd stopped keeping up with the franchise altogether.
And once he started working, his life became an endless cycle of numbing labor.
So most of the plot details had faded from memory.
Now that he was living in the world, that simply wouldn't do.
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Meanwhile, at the door, Yashaka, standing guard, suddenly shivered for no reason.
She instinctively turned toward the door, her beautiful eyes filled with worry.
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One hour later, the various senior ninja had finalized a basic framework for their strategy and began leaving one by one.
As he stepped out, Aoki Jōnin turned his head back to give Rasa one last lingering glance.
Rasa waited until everyone had left—especially Chiyo and Ebizō—before getting up.
For most of the past hour, he'd remained in quiet observation mode.
Part of that was him trying to recall canon plotlines.
The other reason?
He could reverse-engineer macro decisions using his memories from the original story.
But when it came to detailed operations, like tactical positioning or ninja deployments—
He was a modern civilian, not a military tactician.
Sure, he'd read some historical novels and base-building isekai...
But this was the Naruto world, and every mistake could be fatal.
No way was he going to play pretend general and make dumb assumptions.