"What?"
Luo Mang's jaw dropped. He stared at Orochimaru, who was holding up three fingers. Had the man lost his mind?
What did he mean by asking him to find a way to neutralize it?
And how had he even reached that conclusion?
Besides, was he sure the problem with the fusion wasn't a rejection reaction?
Had his own cells simply failed to reject the foreign cells and been overwhelmed instead?
As for neutralizing them, that just meant suppressing them, didn't it?
That seemed to be the idea.
Even after figuring that out, Luo Mang still couldn't understand why Orochimaru had come specifically to ask him to find a solution.
He had lived in Konoha for as long as he could remember. Only a month ago had he left Konoha and come all the way to Rock Shadow Village.
He had barely traveled anywhere. How was he supposed to understand the real shinobi world?
Outside the plot, he knew nothing about the shinobi world.
This really was asking too much of him. Still, if he had to think of someone...
Who besides Hashirama himself could suppress those cells?
Someone stronger than Hashirama?
Boom!
An idea suddenly exploded in Luo Mang's mind, and he looked at Orochimaru in disbelief.
Orochimaru's lips curled slightly. When Luo Mang looked over, he nodded gently, as though he could read minds and knew what Luo Mang was thinking, confirming his guess.
"You've got some nerve!"
"Forget whether I can even do it. Just three favors? That's nowhere near enough."
"Let's just forget it."
Luo Mang rejected him outright.
"If you don't want a fight, leave now. Don't touch the people around me, and I won't kill anyone for no reason."
Orochimaru didn't leave. Instead, his eyes narrowed. "Heh."
"So you understand. Just a tiny bit