Hyuga Sho readily accepted the mission.
Judging from Orochimaru's reaction, he had no idea that Mihai was a Storm Release Kekkei Genkai Ninja.
Moreover, since Hyuga Sho had taken over the mission,
Orochimaru enthusiastically taught Hyuga Sho a Ninjutsu.
--"Vanishing Facial Copy Technique."
"Hohoho... Sho-kun, watch closely."
Orochimaru stood inside the Torture Department's corpse display room.
Mihai's corpse had just been delivered here.
Beside it,
several corpses of former living people who had already been interrogated by other subordinates were lying there.
Orochimaru extended his hand, spread his five fingers, and pressed them against a corpse's face.
Sizzle...
Green smoke rose.
In no time, Orochimaru had completely peeled this person's face away.
Next,
he wiped the unlucky man's facial skin over his own face--
Orochimaru disguised himself as that person.
Even the Byakugan could not see through it.
That was because Orochimaru had disguised himself by fusing on a layer of living tissue.
It was practically a cloning and plastic-surgery technique.
Using the enemy's DNA and facial skin as a foundation, it covered his own face.
His voice, appearance, even his build and hair...
Everything changed into the enemy's appearance.
At this moment, even his skin color had changed.
It was as if...
"He put on a layer of human skin."
Hyuga Sho thought to himself.
Morino Ibiki was right. This Orochimaru really wasn't human.
The Ninjutsu known as the "Vanishing Facial Copy Technique" was B-rank, at the Jonin level.
It had been invented by Orochimaru.
It melted away and stole another person's features, then stuck them onto his own face.
That was how it appeared on the surface.
In reality, it recorded the enemy's DNA.
It could be used to disguise oneself an unlimited number of times.
For example... if the Vanishing Facial Copy Technique caused the facial skin