After Yugito Nii caught and tortured him last night, Moriyue had not had time to check on Kaede and the others' dreams, so he could only set the matter aside for now.
The research team members Moriyue had previously taught a lesson to did not take the initiative to cause him trouble either. Thus, Moriyue settled into a regular routine: researching forbidden jutsu in the morning, testing forbidden jutsu in the afternoon, and exploring more uses for the Sheep Talisman at night.
He developed quite a few forbidden jutsu, though some of them were truly not very presentable. You could tell just from their names: "Water Release: Prostate Flowing Stream Jutsu," "Wind Release: Asthma Great Wind Breaking Jutsu," and "Fire Release: Roasted Chicken Jutsu."
Although some of them sounded wildly unreliable, the scientists still highly approved of Moriyue's abilities. After all, creating so many forbidden jutsu in one go made him quite the oddity. They had even heard that he had recently been trying to modify the Chakra dantian within his body, though nobody knew whether that was true.
Time passed second by second. Orochimaru had completely vanished after appearing that day. No one knew whether he had truly left Kumogakure, or whether he was secretly watching Moriyue right now, but at least he had not caused any trouble openly.
If things could remain peaceful like this, Moriyue would have been perfectly satisfied. His strength was growing by the day, and he could afford to wait. Yet heaven never seemed to grant people what they wanted. The more comfortable things became, the more trouble came swarming to the door.
That day, Moriyue and Yugito Nii went out to carry out a mission. Calling it a mission was not quite accurate; they were merely helping civilians gather medicinal herbs. Moriyue knew