For Orochimaru, who had already seen Yuhara's corpse, seeing a living Yuhara now was naturally an immense shock... That corpse definitely hadn't been fake, and this living Yuhara had to be the real one as well.
But Orochimaru's shock lasted only an instant. He soon felt relieved. Someone like Yuhara couldn't have died so easily. That wasn't to say Yuhara's strength had reached the point where he could protect himself at any time, but rather that someone like him, who knew so many secrets of the ninja world, naturally had secrets of his own. It was precisely because of that unknown information that he possessed the ability to "return from the dead."
If someone knew this and that, then he would certainly prepare a "contingency plan" for the most critical situation he might encounter... Not to mention, wasn't Orochimaru himself the same?
Orochimaru then keenly sensed that the Chakra of this Yuhara was clearly different from before.
"Two against one. It seems I'm the one at a disadvantage." Orochimaru's gaze lightly swept over Jiraiya before settling back on Yuhara.
Originally, Orochimaru only had to deal with the seriously wounded Jiraiya, which still felt relatively easy. But with Yuhara added to the mix, that was hard to say.
No, if they continued to clash, it would definitely be more complicated than merely "hard to say."
Even so, Orochimaru decided to bluff a little. "However, after fighting someone like that so fiercely, it's impossible for you to have fully recovered your former strength by now—especially after losing a life."
That statement was based on personal experience. Little Orochimaru had only just "died" once not long ago, and it had taken him until these past two days to recover his strength... By comparison, Yuhara and Little Orochimaru were remarkably similar. Even the bizarre