Hiruzen Sarutobi carefully explained everything that had happened since the Nine-Tails Incident to Orochimaru.
After being bombarded with so much information, Orochimaru took quite a while to recover.
"So the Konoha in the Otherworld is a hundred times stronger than ours? Hokage Torifu came here to help Konoha?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded. "That's right. Hokage Torifu came to help us, and it seems he also wants to promote his mobile game."
"By the way, you should have a phone by now, right? They're selling like crazy out there. The villagers love them, and they're very affordable. They're good for more than just games, too—you can take photos. It's the best of both worlds."
Orochimaru pulled out the phone he had bought an hour earlier.
He had noticed a scent and immediately gone to investigate, so he hadn't paid much attention to the device.
Now that he thought about it, the phone had been made in the Otherworld. It was clearly popular, so it must have something special about it.
After fiddling with it for a while, Orochimaru had learned the basics. When he saw the Naruto game on the screen, he tapped it.
"Naruto... What an interesting name."
When Hiruzen Sarutobi saw the familiar screen appear, he explained some of the game's mechanics to Orochimaru.
"The main appeal is the story. You can also duel people you're randomly matched with in 3v3 battles. It all comes down to your skill. Even I can't put it down these days."
As he spoke, Hiruzen Sarutobi took out his phone and started a match.
Orochimaru was a little surprised. The old man was so set in his ways—had he really learned to use something meant for young people?
Playing games was something Orochimaru never would have imagined seeing in Hiruzen Sarutobi's vocabulary.
Orochimaru could