Everyone has something they pursue.
Just as Orochimaru had always pursued immortality.
Hyuga Sho was also pursuing ever-greater strength.
Orochimaru knew that no one could stop him.
He knew that no one could stop Hyuga Sho, either.
What he could do now
was keep exploring and find ways to defeat Hyuga Sho's various split personalities one by one.
When everyone else was helpless, he would step forward, use the results of his scientific and Ninja Science research, and become the savior...
Ugh... the savior?
"Heh heh..."
Orochimaru had never considered becoming any kind of savior.
All he wanted
was to maintain the stability of the Shinobi World as an experimental ground.
After all...
If the world was gone, what would there be left to research?
Before long...
Orochimaru dissected and studied White Zetsu, and obtained some results.
"Heh heh, Sho-kun, just as I thought, aside from its appearance and functions, White Zetsu has none of the physical characteristics of a human..."
What did that mean?
White Zetsu could breathe, but it did not need to breathe.
White Zetsu possessed vitality, but it was different from humans.
White Zetsu had no heart, no liver, no lungs, and even... no meridians.
Yet it could move freely, and Chakra could still circulate.
If he had to describe it,
White Zetsu was like a lotus root.
When Orochimaru cut the lotus root, it became slices.
When the slices were connected, they could still move.
"It looks a little like Li Goudan..."
Hyuga Sho murmured.
"What?"
Orochimaru asked.
"Nothing..." Hyuga Sho shook his head.
Some jokes and implications were understood only by Hyuga Sho himself.
"Some inexplicable will allows a life-form like White Zetsu to move..."
Orochimaru examined the White Zetsu slices under the microscope.
Back then,
Miyashiro En's wife... Legal Loli married woman Junko