Soji Decided to Stay Out of It

"Hm? Orochimaru, have we met somewhere before?" Shisui quickly picked up on that implication in Orochimaru's words.

But no matter how hard Shisui tried to remember, he couldn't recall ever having had any contact with Orochimaru.

Even before Orochimaru defected from the village, when they had both been in Konoha, Shisui didn't remember ever seeing him.

After all, Orochimaru had defected before Nine-Tails Night, and Shisui hadn't even graduated from the Ninja Academy at the time!

Moreover, during Orochimaru's later years in Konoha, he had been almost wholly devoted to research. There was even less chance that he would have crossed paths with Shisui, who had still been a Ninja Academy student.

Yet Shisui could hear from Orochimaru's words that the man had seen him before, which left him somewhat confused.

After getting nowhere with his thoughts, Shisui gave up.

He figured that perhaps, back when he had been in the village, Orochimaru had happened to see him while he himself hadn't noticed Orochimaru.

That was normal. With his strength back then, how could he possibly have paid attention to something like that?

But Shisui never could have imagined that when he and Soji had passed through the Land of Sound, Orochimaru had watched him from the shadows.

Even now, Orochimaru still somewhat regretted not making a move back then.

"Mm-hm, who knows? Perhaps we met somewhere else in the past?" Orochimaru did not reveal to Shisui that the Land of Sound was his headquarters.

Shisui frowned, but seeing that Orochimaru had no intention of explaining, he did not ask further.

Still, to be honest, Shisui truly had a terrible impression of Orochimaru!

"Let's keep moving. The Daimyo of the Land of Fire won't be easy to assassinate. We need to plan ahead. Otherwise, if we fail in one strike,