"Rescue them?" Orochimaru tilted his head, his expression innocent. "You can try."
He raised his hand and pointed at the two containers.
"The containers are made of glass incorporating Rōran Special Alloy, over fifty centimeters thick, with three layers of electromagnetic sealing runes embedded inside. Even if you use Sukunahikona to shrink the containers! The containers themselves are nonliving and can be shrunk!
But the nutrient solution inside, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, and Urashiki Otsutsuki are all living things and cannot be shrunk. If you shrink the containers, they will be submerged in the nutrient solution."
"If you try to break the containers by force! The electromagnetic seals on their outer walls will release a high-voltage current the instant they are attacked, strong enough to instantly pierce any chakra shield on your body."
"If you try to store the containers with Daikokuten! Sorry, but the containers are connected to the laboratory's energy supply system. Forcibly storing them will trigger the self-destruct sequence. When that happens, not only will you fail to rescue them, but you will watch them... disappear before your eyes."
Every word Orochimaru spoke was like a knife plunging into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's heart.
He had been seen through completely.
His abilities, his habits, his way of thinking... they had studied everything about him thoroughly.
"So," Mayuri Kurotsuchi picked up where he left off, his smile growing even brighter, "the only way to rescue them is to personally open the containers' safety locks without triggering any alarms! And only Orochimaru and I know the passcodes. Would you... like to torture us?"
He spread his arms in a welcoming gesture.
"Be our guest."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fell silent.
It was not that he could not fight. Even with his strength still unrecovered, he was confident he could defeat these two scientists! Dangerous though