"What exactly was this treasure?"
Suigetsu watched the few people disappear before his eyes and muttered to himself.
He knew the purpose behind the founding of the Technology Development Bureau: researching things, much like what Orochimaru had done in the past.
But in this time of peace, what kind of treasure could make Tobitake Tonbo, a hero of the Shinobi World, care so much?
Yet he had even allowed Orochimaru, someone under surveillance, to see it. Suigetsu could not figure it out.
"Forget it. I heard Konoha opened some kind of burger joint. It's a new product developed by Gourmet Ninja, and apparently it's pretty good. I'll go try it."
Unable to understand it, Suigetsu stopped trying. Thinking of the advertisement he had seen today, he practically started drooling.
They passed through all manner of futuristic areas and went by countless guards before a laboratory appeared before them.
A1 was written above it.
It was the Technology Development Bureau's highest-grade laboratory.
"Oho, you even set up so many layers of barriers to protect it. Your treasure must be something extraordinary," Orochimaru said.
He could sense the barriers surrounding the laboratory.
Layer upon layer.
Tobitake Keigo also looked curiously at the laboratory.
"This is the Thirteenth District of the Technology Development Bureau, the safest place in the entire bureau and where the highest-grade laboratories are concentrated.
"Of course, aside from all kinds of equipment and experimental instruments, there is nothing that needs guarding for the time being.
"My treasure isn't here either. All right, let's go in first."
Tobitake Tonbo infused his chakra into the device beside the gate and waited for fingerprint and pupil scans.
Then, layer after layer of barriers opened a passage, and he led the other two inside.
Orochimaru followed behind, curiously examining his surroundings.
He