Ever since that day, Pakura had gone three or four days without seeing Vegapunk. When she occasionally asked the researchers here, she heard that he was working on her enhancement modification plan.
Pakura had always felt uneasy about Vegapunk's so-called radical modifications. Although she had never formed factions in Sunagakure, her strength alone had ensured her high status and authority. She knew something of the dark side of the major shinobi villages and their human experimentation.
Among the Five Great Shinobi Villages, aside from Konoha, Sunagakure was perhaps the most advanced in human research. Otherwise, such a horrifying creation as the Human Puppet could never have emerged. Because Pakura understood the horrors of those human modifications, she had been restless these past few days.
At first, she could still rely on her naturally resolute will to suppress those wild thoughts and keep her fear from showing. But as time passed and she thought more and more, her anxiety over gain and loss had become impossible to hide.
So when she saw Vegapunk again, Pakura's expression was extremely strange. She was like a patient who had gone to the hospital for certain symptoms, watching a doctor in a white coat hold her examination report as he prepared to speak.
Before the doctor came out, she desperately wanted to know the results at once. Yet when the doctor truly stood before her, she wished the wait could last a little longer. That was probably the contradiction she felt.
"Alright, lie face down on that bed!"
After giving Pakura an injection, Vegapunk spoke directly. As Pakura lay facedown on the bed, she cautiously asked, "Was that an anesthetic?"
"What are you thinking? That was your modification serum!"
Vegapunk looked at Pakura as though she were inexplicable, then impatiently waved his hand. "Enough, don't