Ninjas risked their lives for money to fight and kill one another. Back then, ninjas couldn't even be called humans; they were tools. Life was utterly miserable—you needed money to eat, money for shelter, money to buy clothes, money for everything.
Without money, survival was impossible.
This was entirely different from the education he had received since childhood. In the Empire, the basics of survival cost nothing. You could eat at the mess hall, and if you fell ill, you simply went to bathe in the Ganges water; any illness, no matter what it was, could be cured. Housing was provided by the Empire.
Chapter 88