Uchiha Itachi wasted no time talking to him. He activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and cast a genjutsu.
Dr. Kano fell under Itachi's control in an instant.
Then Itachi ordered Dr. Kano to lead the three of them into his underground research facility. There, Itachi saw Rize Kamishiro, who had been struck by the falling rebar.
There were also all kinds of scientific instruments.
Orochimaru grew excited the moment he entered.
Meanwhile, Itachi began questioning Kanou about why he had turned Kaneki into a ghoul.
Kanou's answer sounded exactly like something a Perverted Scientist would say.
Kanou wanted to learn what ghouls truly were, how their powers could be used in medicine, and where the boundary between humans and ghouls lay.
In truth, Kanou was not quite so deranged yet, but Kaneki's success as a test subject drove Kanou's obsession with creating half-ghouls to increasingly sick extremes.
To create a second Kaneki, he even began subjecting the half-ghouls he had created to inhuman abuse.
But in the end, he never managed to produce another Ken Kaneki.
Ken Kaneki was also the only one capable of becoming a dragon.
After gathering the information he needed, Itachi handed Dr. Kano over to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru was standing in front of the tank holding Rize Kamishiro, studying her through its walls.
"Orochimaru, this place is yours from now on. Kanou is still useful, so don't kill him!"
Itachi gave him that warning.
At Itachi's words, Orochimaru smiled. "Kanou is a treasure trove to me, too! Why would I kill him?"
Orochimaru still wanted to learn about this world's biology and its ghouls, so... Kanou remained very important for now.
Leaving Orochimaru in the underground laboratory, Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Shoyo departed.
Itachi planned to find Ken Kaneki and get Hyuga Shoyo an identity