Orochimaru had created a body with incomparably great potential for his future use.
In theory, he had already touched the threshold of immortality. He only needed to keep changing bodies to live forever.
To Shin, this was an absolute taboo. Immortality was far too distant a concept for him, but if Orochimaru were allowed to continually extend his life, he would forever remain a mountain pressing down on Shin.
The reason Shin had come to Orochimaru's laboratory this time was to find that body and destroy it.
But when he entered that room, the sight before him left him stunned.
All the machinery was operating normally, and every reading was perfectly normal.
Only the figure inside the round glass container was no longer the young man he had seen last time.
It was Anko!
Yet the Chakra emanating from Anko was exactly the same as that of the young man's body from before!
Shin was dazed for a long while before realizing that Orochimaru had given the body he created to Anko!
Why... then where was Orochimaru himself?
He quickly found the switch among the instruments and pressed it.
"Shin."
Orochimaru's voice suddenly rang out through the room, coming from every direction. It was followed by a laugh with an indecipherable meaning, chilling him to the bone.
Shin had searched the entire laboratory and determined that the voice had likely been recorded beforehand.
Orochimaru knew he would come...
"Shin, have you come to cut off my retreat?"
The voice came from all around him, low and hoarse, like a thin wire passing through paper, deeply unpleasant to hear.
Shin stood motionless and silent in the quiet room.
Orochimaru knew he would make a move against him.
The reason he had not acted against Minato was because he wanted to see