During the ten years in the first genjutsu world, Yanbai deliberately sealed away Orochimaru's memories from before the age of five, making him believe he had been born and raised in that world.
Everything in the illusion was realistic down to the smallest detail.
At least from the very beginning, Orochimaru had never suspected that everything he experienced was an illusion.
Everyone around Orochimaru seemed to truly exist, but in fact, they were all fabrications of Yanbai's.
Orochimaru grew up like an ordinary child. With no foundation of knowledge, he started in the first grade of elementary school and progressed all the way to secondary school under Yanbai's guidance as a single parent.
During that time, Orochimaru experienced everything a normal child would.
When he entered his rebellious teenage years, Orochimaru began to take an interest in the father he had never met.
Although Yanbai played both father and mother, Orochimaru still felt it was not enough.
To Orochimaru, no matter how capable someone was, that person could only fill the place of one person in his life, not two. He needed a father and a mother, not Yanbai alone serving as both sexes.
In Orochimaru's eyes, Yanbai would always be his gentle, elegant mother, unruffled by any crisis.
Orochimaru saw Yanbai only as his mother. He needed a stern, powerful father.
Then, when Orochimaru turned fifteen in the genjutsu space, Yanbai ended their first journey through the illusion and unsealed Orochimaru's buried memories.
When he first learned the truth, Orochimaru struggled to accept it.
To Orochimaru, Yanbai was the mother to whom he owed an immeasurable debt of gratitude.
But later, Yanbai smiled and told Orochimaru, "You will always be my child."
Orochimaru soon came to terms with those feelings and cooperated fully with Yanbai.
Then the second genjutsu