At Orochimaru's mention of that child, Tobirama's face twitched, and he glanced guiltily at Hashirama.
Hashirama looked at Tobirama as well, scrutiny in his eyes.
Orochimaru was perceptive enough to guess why they had come from their reactions.
"It seems you're all here for the child the Second cultivated."
Tetsuya smiled and nodded.
"Yes. We heard Tobirama created an artificial child using himself as the template. We were curious, so we came to take a look.
By the way, Orochimaru, your artificial human project must have produced some results by now too. Let us see those as well."
"Of course. I had planned to wait until the children were a little more mature before sending someone to invite Boss Chiba over to witness the results.
But since you've already heard about it and come early, Boss Chiba, let's all go take a look."
As he spoke, Orochimaru stepped down from the floating platform and gestured for them to follow.
"Please come with me."
"All right."
The group followed Orochimaru into a white research building. There was little decoration inside, just white walls and ceilings, green wall tiles, and cool white electric lights illuminating the interior.
Apart from the necessary signs outside each laboratory, there were no other decorations in the entire building.
But as they went farther inside, the monotonous colors suddenly became vivid.
The walls abruptly shifted from calming cool colors to warm ones.
Cute stickers and decorations began appearing on the clean, tidy walls. The pictures looked like doodles kindergarten children had casually scribbled.
With their excellent hearing, they seemed to pick up the sounds of children laughing and playing.
When they passed through a cartoon-decorated door, their eyes lit up.
Well, now. Had they walked into a kindergarten?
The room was floored with foam mats and filled