"Neji, I've long admired you. Your pills have helped me quite a bit..." Orochimaru raised his head and licked his lips with his tongue, a sinister smile curling across his mouth.
Over the past six years, aside from organizations such as Konoha's Anbu and Danzo Shimura's Root, the individual who had purchased the most Flesh-Repair Pills was actually Kabuto Yakushi, acting on Orochimaru's behalf. Even among the Advanced Flesh-Repair Pills, which were sold only in limited quantities and cost fifty million each, one had been sold to Kabuto Yakushi.
Neji Hyuga believed that highest-grade Flesh-Repair Pill had already reached Orochimaru's hands.
As for whether Orochimaru had dissolved it for research, that was unknown.
"Is that so? It was only a transaction. Go ahead and finish what you're doing. We can talk after you're done." After speaking, Neji Hyuga turned to Tenten and Rock Lee on either side of him. "Tenten, Rock Lee, go find the other teams and take their Earth Scrolls."
"But..." Rock Lee looked at Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno below, hesitating.
"They'll be fine," Neji Hyuga said with calm certainty.
"All right." Rock Lee glanced at Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha, then at the rather eerie Orochimaru. He nodded firmly before he and Tenten each vanished in a Body Flicker.
"It seems you know me well, Neji." Orochimaru's snake-like pupils sharpened, like a venomous serpent about to strike, radiating extreme danger.
"More or less. Orochimaru, one of Konoha's Legendary Sannin, an S-rank rogue ninja—I know a little about what you've done and what you intend to do." Neji Hyuga smiled. "But don't worry. I have no interest in changing what you want to do."
"Hm?" Orochimaru narrowed his eyes as though assessing Neji Hyuga.
Their gazes met, sending terror through Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha.
They had