Seeing Asuka suddenly fall silent, Orochimaru's mood improved considerably.
Sometimes, seeing that assured look on the other man's face made Orochimaru wonder if he had mistaken him for someone else.
But whenever he recalled that the mark on Uchiha Asuka's Kusanagi Sword was identical to the mark on the Kusanagi Sword he had once lost, Orochimaru knew he had not been wrong. That sword was his! "Actually."
Orochimaru suddenly spoke, breaking the heavy atmosphere around them. "Ever since that sword was lost, I've had nothing but bad luck. It continued until my human experiments were exposed, Konoha put out a warrant for me, and I became an S-Rank Missing-nin."
Asuka raised his head and stared intently at Orochimaru's pale face. "If you walk by the river often enough, sooner or later you'll fall in. With the human experiments you conducted, it was only a matter of time before they were exposed."
Orochimaru shook his head. His gaze passed over Asuka and turned toward Allied Forces Headquarters as he sneered. "Don't sound so certain. You cannot imagine Konoha's darkness.
"I wasn't the first one to come up with the plan to use villagers as human test subjects."
As soon as he said that, Asuka fell silent as well.
Konoha's human experimentation program had begun with the Second Hokage, but using villagers as test subjects began after the Second Hokage's death, eventually producing Yamato, who possessed Wood Release.
Seeing this, Orochimaru chuckled softly, and the resentment in his heart quickly subsided.
As one of Konoha's former higher-ups and a participant in Konoha's core secrets, he had seen and taken part in many plans outsiders could never imagine. Because of that, he knew the hidden sides of the other higher-ups.
"Why are you still wasting words on him?" Ichikishimahime suddenly said.
She stared