Inside Orochimaru's base.
"This is the 784th experiment. Experimenter: Orochimaru."
"Experimental assistant: Yakushi Kabuto."
"Recorder: Sparkle."
As Yakushi Kabuto continuously reported the data in his hands, he also kept helping Orochimaru conduct the experiment.
Orochimaru, meanwhile, nervously activated the machine before him once more and continuously adjusted its settings.
Before them stretched an enormous plaza, vast enough to leave one dumbstruck.
More precisely, it was a mechanical plaza constructed entirely from all kinds of machinery.
Layer upon layer of mechanical structures covered the plaza floor, interlocking to form a complex and precise system.
The central control hub of the entire plaza was located directly above it—the control platform where the three of them currently stood.
Sparkle gazed at the scene below, watching the equipment operate in orderly fashion, and could not help feeling moved.
"It looks like this experiment is nearing its end," she said.
Sparkle had truly never expected that Uchiha Yato had sent her to Orochimaru to do this sort of work. Nor had she expected Orochimaru's progress to be directly proportional to his genius.
During this time, Sparkle seemed to have become an entirely new person. She no longer went out causing trouble and stirring up mischief as she once had, nor did she search everywhere for amusement to pass the time.
Instead, she threw herself wholeheartedly into Orochimaru's work and became his capable assistant.
For Uchiha Yato, Sparkle's arrival was undoubtedly a tremendous help.
He needed Sparkle's assistance to calibrate the experimental equipment and handle various other trivial tasks.
And Sparkle had not let him down. She completed every task with remarkable efficiency and professionalism.
Yet for Sparkle herself, this experience held a different kind of meaning.
She discovered that she greatly enjoyed playing the role of Orochimaru's subordinate, as though she were living out someone