The Secret Orochimaru and the Pig Must Tell

A massive explosion rang out.

As the dust and smoke dissipated, the spot was already empty.

"Damn it, he actually got away!"

Kimura Takuya, who had braced himself for a grand battle, truly had not expected Orochimaru to flee.

He had deliberately taunted Orochimaru earlier, hoping to goad him into staying.

He never imagined Orochimaru would run so decisively.

"Takuya, what now?"

"Danzo still carries my soul energy; the two of them won't be able to escape. I wasn't paying attention to this side before, but tracking them now will be a piece of cake. However, we must leave. The Anbu are almost here."

With that, Kimura Takuya led the group away, erasing all traces of their presence before departing.

Not long after Kimura Takuya and his group left, a squad of Anbu arrived. They searched the entire pig farm, but aside from the blast marks left by the Spiral Cannon, they found only a few kunai.

Other than that, there were no findings whatsoever.

"Lord Ziyue, there are only signs of a struggle, but the number of people involved is unclear. Also, there is one very strange matter."

"Oh? What is it?"

Uzuki Yugao, with her purple hair, asked with a puzzled expression as she watched her subordinate hesitate.

"The boars here were all drugged with aphrodisiacs, but the sows were deliberately separated, and nothing happened to them!"

"And so?"

The expression beneath Uzuki Yugao's mask nearly cracked; her mouth twitched as she continued her inquiry.

But the Anbu continued, determined to shock.

"So, I boldly conclude: someone violated these boars! Lord Ziyue, those boars all look completely drained; I fear they've been violated at least ten times each!"

"Baka! Who would be so bored as to do something like this?"

Ziyue struck her subordinate on the head with the back of her blade and turned to leave, shouting fiercely at her teammates behind her.

"Continue the pursuit! Our target is Orochimaru and his subordinates, not some pig-molester!"

"But, Lord Ziyue, could this have been Orochimaru's doing? He violated all the boars in Konoha, leaving them all drained, so we won't have any piglets in the future and won't be able to eat pork!"

"Baka! How did you even get into the Anbu? Why would Orochimaru do something like this?"

"We ran into Orochimaru earlier, and he can turn into a snake, right? Even though he got away, he was still wounded by the Hokage. Snakes are very lecherous creatures; perhaps he was draining the life essence of these pigs to heal his wounds!"

The Anbu grew more and more absurd, offering all sorts of reasons to prove that Orochimaru had violated the boars.

Only at the very end did the group realize that this pig farm was actually owned by his family, and he was trying to get Orochimaru to pay for the damages.

"Even if I do want Orochimaru to pay, you can't deny that what I said makes sense, right? Snake demons really can absorb life essence to recover!"

"Enough! Continue the pursuit!"

"Hai!"

Seeing their captain lose her temper, the Anbu dared not speak another word, and the group continued their pursuit.

Outside Konoha.

Orochimaru had changed into a black robe embroidered with red clouds, and together with Kabuto and the pig-Danzo, he arrived at a private residence.

"Orochimaru, you're late."

"Sasori, there were some unexpected complications, but there were also some unexpected gains."

Sasori, still in his Hiruko form, saw Orochimaru and Kabuto return with a pig.

Even his expressionless puppet body seemed to reveal a hint of surprise.

"You should know that I don't need to eat, right?"

"Ahaha, this isn't a real pig. This is the shadow of Konoha, Lord Danzo."

"What?"

Sasori then listened as Orochimaru explained the situation regarding Danzo.

Even though Sasori had long since turned himself into a puppet, stripping away all his emotions, he was still deeply shocked to hear of such a thing.

[System Notification: Target analyzed. Soul energy signature confirmed. Potential for biological integration: 98%.]

"Incredible. This is truly a perfect work. While it differs from my human puppets, it is quite ingenious! If human heads and pig bodies can be combined, perhaps my human puppets could be assembled even more perfectly!"

As a top-tier puppeteer, Sasori saw the value of this pig at a single glance.

He was the sole creator of the Human Puppet technique, and Sasori's medical ninjutsu was also top-tier; otherwise, he would never have been able to maintain the vitality of his human puppets.

Not to mention that Sasori's grandmother, Chiyo, was a medical ninja capable of using resurrection ninjutsu.

Therefore, Sasori's attainments in medical ninjutsu were inevitably high.

The more he looked at the pig before him, the more he liked it, manipulating his puppets to poke and prod at it.

"Incredible. Only the head is human, while all other parts are those of a pig. How is the head kept alive like this? The connection points are so perfect; this is not something that can be achieved with ordinary medical ninjutsu."

"Haha, so you also understand the extraordinary nature of this technique? This is a masterpiece of Konoha's medical ninjutsu! Kabuto and I have studied it, yet neither of us could grasp the key to this jutsu."

Orochimaru pointed at Kabuto while speaking in wonder, and Kabuto gave a subtle, slight nod to Sasori.

Seeing that even Kabuto admitted he couldn't decipher it, Sasori couldn't help but be surprised; Kabuto was, after all, the spy he had sent to Orochimaru's side.

He knew Kabuto's capabilities very well, having even let Kabuto handle the processing of human puppets, so how could it be that even Kabuto was helpless?

Interesting!

"The reason you brought it here is to decipher this technique, isn't it?"

"Correct. We can work together to decipher this technique; how about we share the results?"

Orochimaru sensed Kabuto's small gesture but acted as if he had discovered nothing, simply inviting Sasori to join him in breaking down the ninjutsu.

Sasori hesitated slightly, voicing his concerns; after all, the leader of their organization was suffocatingly powerful.

"But the mission the leader gave us has not yet been completed."

"The mission is merely to collect intelligence on Konoha. Konoha has suddenly changed Hokage, and now there is the scandal involving the Hokage's advisors, as well as the truth behind Danzo's murder. Therefore, it is understandable for us to linger here for a long time, right? Besides, isn't Danzo the best source of intelligence? If we just heal Danzo, we can complete the mission and decipher the ninjutsu at the same time—isn't that perfect?"

Orochimaru shook his head, pointing out that Danzo alone would allow them to complete the mission, making it unnecessary to keep risking infiltration into Konoha to gather information.

Sasori felt this made sense; since it was a way to kill two birds with one stone, he agreed, though he put forward a request for the sake of security.

"Fine. But this place is no longer safe. Let's leave here first and find a new place to continue our research."

"No problem. I have a laboratory not far from here. It is very convenient, and the equipment is all ready to go."

Orochimaru had no objections to Sasori's proposal.

After all, this current location was only a temporary shelter.

It lacked any equipment, making it impossible to conduct research.

Furthermore, to conduct the research, they would first have to heal Danzo.

After Danzo regained consciousness, he recounted his ordeal, perhaps because reliving the tragic experience caused his mind to snap, rendering him unable to provide any further intelligence.

However, this was for the best, as it prevented Sasori from learning that the true ability of this ninjutsu was to bring the dead back to life.

He would just study it with him, kill him once the results were obtained, and then defect from the organization.

Orochimaru made this decision in his heart.

Sasori did not refute Orochimaru's words after hearing them.

He was naturally somewhat wary of Orochimaru's laboratory.

However, he felt that since he had a mole by Orochimaru's side, he had nothing to fear regardless of what tricks Orochimaru might play, so he nodded in agreement.

And so, the three of them and the pig left the area, heading toward Orochimaru's secret laboratory.

Yet, all of this had been monitored by Kimura Takuya from start to finish.

Danzo's sudden mental breakdown was no accident.

"Want to decipher my ninjutsu? Even my master couldn't learn it, so you two should just give up. Haha."