Could I, Orochimaru, Actually Become a Saint One Day? My Little Brother Is Good at Everything

For researchers, there were two major problems they could never avoid. The first was funding.

Purchasing equipment, gathering materials, building and maintaining a base—all of it required enormous amounts of money.

No researcher could possibly be unhappy at the sight of funding.

Orochimaru had suffered greatly in the past.

While conducting research, he had also needed to frantically carry out missions to earn money. Otherwise, his research simply could not continue.

Yet even an S-rank mission only brought him a little over a million in income. Lower-ranked missions paid even less, and every mission consumed a great deal of his research time.

That sense of being torn in two had nearly driven Orochimaru mad.

I just want to quietly do research. Why is that so difficult?

Then Uchiha Dan casually pulled out an amount of money more than three times what Orochimaru had earned over all those years. How could he not be thrilled?

Moreover, Uchiha Dan had said that Tsunade's future earnings at Konoha Hospital would also be continuously invested into their research.

Over the past few days, Tsunade and Uchiha Dan had communicated quite a bit.

In the end, Tsunade still decided not to conduct research together with Uchiha Dan.

Originally, Tsunade had not wanted to be separated from Uchiha Dan, so she had proposed joining the research team.

But when she saw him readily agree, she calmed down instead.

She had promised Uchiha Dan that she would become Hokage, and she was preparing to take action.

The first step was to raise her prestige and prepare to intervene in Konoha's Medical Department.

If she devoted all her time to research, the position of Hokage would only drift farther and farther away from her.

Besides, just as Orochimaru had said, she truly was not someone who could patiently