Standing beside him, Karin could not help muttering a comment at the sight of his utter despair, her eyes brimming with disbelief.
"Orochimaru... you didn't really..."
She left the sentence unfinished, but her meaning was obvious.
The moment she said it, Karin instinctively backed away several steps, putting plenty of distance between them. She looked at Orochimaru with undisguised disgust, her entire body radiating discomfort.
She had seen all kinds of bizarre experiments and insane stunts from Orochimaru, and had long since developed nerves of steel.
But what had been revealed today truly went beyond anything she could accept.
Orochimaru's mouth twitched uncontrollably. He was utterly speechless, frustration choking him.
He had long since ceased to care about physical forms. Possessing bodies, reincarnating, and changing vessels were merely tools for his research.
He had never cared about inhabiting a woman's body. It did not bother him in the slightest.
But giving birth truly shattered every limit of what he could stomach!
Orochimaru stood silently in place, his narrow eyes devoid of emotion and his face expressionless. The air around him was bitterly cold.
Only after a long while did he silently commit that name to memory-Uchiha Sen.
"Uchiha Sen... well done."
"I'll remember this debt."
On the surface, he remained as calm as still water, betraying neither joy nor anger. No one knew what schemes and murderous intentions lurked in his heart.
In Konoha, the entire dessert street fell into absolute silence.
Uchiha Itachi stood motionless in the dango shop. His normally composed, unflappable face had lost every trace of its usual calm.
The Three-Color Dango he had just picked up fell straight to the ground with a soft plop, rolling far away and collecting dust from the street.
Yet Itachi did not even notice. His eyes remained fixed on