Orochimaru had chosen this moment to make his move against Kabuto as well, but he had used himself to sell Kabuto a dream, giving him a new direction amid despair.
Lin Chongshu did not need to go through so much trouble. For Nonō, there was already a ready-made dream before her.
"What about the orphanage? What about all the orphans inside?"
Nonō collapsed to her knees, covering her face as she broke down. "What else can I do? Since Danzo has decided to eliminate us, no matter what happens, the orphanage will cease to exist..."
She raised her head to look at Lin Chongshu. The wariness had vanished from her eyes, leaving only a hollow emptiness, as though everything within had been drained away.
Lin Chongshu took the opportunity to offer the drowning Nonō her final straw. "If I had no solution, why would I have come to recruit you?"
When someone drowning in darkness saw a hand above the water, whether that hand meant to save her or press her under, she would still cling to it with all her strength.
Nonō raised her head, and a faint light appeared in her eyes. "You have a way to save the children? God will surely bless you."
Lin Chongshu paused. He suddenly recalled that, in the original story, Nonō had dressed like a member of the clergy at the orphanage, and the entire Hidden Leaf Orphanage seemed to have some sort of faith in a deity.
But it made sense. Without some faith, who would care about orphans in troubled times?
"I don't need God's blessing! I need you. As long as you listen to me, I'll help you keep the Hidden Leaf Orphanage."
If Nonō had heard those words under normal circumstances, she would have weighed them over and