"If that's the case, aren't you worried that Itachi will come after you with his life on the line if he finds out... Orochimaru?"
After Aizen's smiling voice fell from the throne, Orochimaru, clad in a black-and-white uniform, slowly emerged from the shadows at the side.
A sinister smile rested on his long, pale face as he looked at Aizen seated upon the elevated throne and chuckled hoarsely.
"Even if Itachi risked his life, how much of a threat do you think he could possibly pose to me... Your Majesty...?"
As he spoke, the corners of Orochimaru's mouth rose slightly.
With a faint rustling sound, a slender white snake, seemingly made of bone, slowly crawled out from Orochimaru's sleeve.
Its soft body was slender and beautiful, carrying an unusual allure.
Like a cute, bashful little girl clinging to her father, the white bone snake slowly coiled upward around Orochimaru's shoulder, loop by loop. Finally, it quietly poked its head out from beside his neck and gazed at Aizen alongside him.
"Hiss..."
The thin white bone snake fixed its reddish-yellow pupils on Aizen as it lightly flicked its tongue.
At the sight of it, even Aizen, seated upon the stone throne, could not help leaning slightly forward. He looked at the little white snake with admiration and spoke in a magnetic voice.
"I never expected you to have reached this stage, Orochimaru..."
"In that case, the current experimental data should already be sufficient to allow a large number of Hollows to control their Hollowfication, correct...?"
Hearing Aizen's words, Orochimaru's lips curled slightly as he replied hoarsely, unable to conceal his excitement.
"Of course..."
"Through the experiments based on the changes that occurred in Kidomaru and Kimimaro, I have not only become a Hollowfication user, but gone a step further—I have reached