"Cough, cough..."
Orochimaru clutched his chest as he climbed out of the water, looking at the boy before him with lingering fear.
He had no idea why Jin had suddenly attacked. He had not been plotting against him!
Could it be...
Orochimaru's pupils abruptly contracted, and then his expression turned amused.
It seemed the truth was more complicated than they had imagined.
The way young people these days expressed their feelings...
Was actually so... unique.
"Hehe, how interesting."
With Orochimaru's intelligence, how could he fail to understand what had happened?
This fellow had never truly intended to kill Shisui Uchiha.
As expected, the Uchiha Clan's thinking could not be predicted by common sense.
Had he known, he would have stayed hidden and kept watching. That way, he could have seen what happened next.
What a shame.
This was all Kakuzu's fault for getting impatient. Otherwise, he could have kept enjoying the show.
"Did you figure something out?"
Sasori of the Red Sands asked curiously when he saw this. This fellow was quite intelligent.
He must have discovered something. Perhaps it would help with the battle.
Ever since Uchiha Jin had nearly killed him a while ago, he, the self-proclaimed genius puppeteer of Sunagakure, had been left with a psychological scar.
He dreaded anything similar happening again.
Even if Uchiha Jin did not use his Mangekyō Sharingan's ocular techniques, Susanoo alone was beyond what ordinary people could contend with.
That was the very move that had gravely injured him back then, and he had possessed no means of countering it.
It was not as though he could shatter Susanoo with a single punch.
That was clearly unrealistic.
"No."
Orochimaru gently shook his head at the question. It was better not to share this little discovery.
Otherwise, if Uchiha Jin heard him,