After hearing Chihane's voice, Orochimaru turned and walked toward him, waving for the ANBU member to leave.
Orochimaru then approached the desk, an eerie smile curling his lips as he asked, "Chihane, can you guess why I called you here today?"
The moment Chihane entered the room, he had noticed that something was off about Orochimaru today.
Not only was he not busy reviewing documents and assigning missions as usual, but his tone was also nothing like the way he normally spoke to Chihane.
Orochimaru preferred to keep everything concise. If there really was something important, he would have told Chihane directly as soon as he arrived, rather than beating around the bush and making him guess.
But given Chihane's current mastery of Observation Haki, no one could possibly fool him by using the Transformation Technique to impersonate Orochimaru right before his eyes.
Then another terrifying possibility occurred to Chihane. Once the thought entered his mind, he could not shake it, and he asked Orochimaru in alarm, "Teacher Orochimaru, you're not planning to make me handle all this, are you?"
Chihane pointed at the small mountain of documents and mission scrolls piled on the desk. He could hardly believe it, but deep down, he suspected his guess was right.
Why else would Orochimaru have left every single document untouched today, something he almost never did, and summoned him at the busiest time of the day?
Orochimaru did not answer immediately. He simply watched Chihane in silence, that eerie smile still lingering on his lips.
Orochimaru found Chihane's expression quite amusing. Since meeting him, he had never seen Chihane so flustered.
Chihane had always struck him as a precocious boy who would not feel the slightest fear even if the sky fell and the world came to an end.
Who would