Hashirama frowned, anger rising inside him as he looked at this person who looked neither male nor female.
If he had understood correctly, Minato had said this man was his master's junior fellow disciple, which meant...
He was Little Tsunade's teammate, yet he had defected from Konoha?
The nerve!
If he wanted to conduct human experiments, he could just use people from other villages. How could he turn his hands against his own comrades?!
Pah! For the sake of peace in the shinobi world, he really should not do anything that violated human ethics like that.
Look at Tobirama. He only experimented on people who volunteered.
Though that had been while Hashirama was still alive. Hashirama had no idea what Tobirama might have done after his death.
Back to the matter at hand, this Orochimaru had actually gone straight to bullying a junior two whole generations below him, and even wanted to take away Karin, who was under Mito's protection.
What a disgrace!
Where were his morals? Where was his humanity? Where was Mito's chakra?!
If he really brought Mito out, Hashirama's days ahead would not be easy.
Wait, those snakes... and that name.
I remember!
He seemed to be a descendant of the clan of Ryūchi Cave heirs. Hashirama seemed to have met him as a child back then, too.
Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, Mount Myōboku...
Was it fate?
Many thoughts ran through Hashirama's mind. He shook his head, then called out to Naruto.
"Naruto, let me take over now. Orochimaru isn't an opponent you can handle as you are."
"His strength is nothing that Zabuza from before could even begin to compare with."
And that was indeed the case. The Konoha Sannin were among the shinobi world's strongest fighters. In this age without Six Paths-level figures appearing, their