RNP Chapter 28 Tsunade's Guilt and Orochimaru's Traits
Chapter 28 Tsunade's Guilt and Orochimaru's Traits
Orochimaru?
Qingyu put down the towel he was using to wipe his sweat and turned to look at Tsunade.
"Why did Lord Orochimaru suddenly contact me?"
Tsunade's gaze drifted to the ceiling, then to the few leftover chicken bones on the coffee table, before finally settling back on Qingyu's face.
"He heard about your genius and asked to meet you."
Kiyoyu stared into Tsunade's eyes.
"Tsunade, tell me the truth."
"I'm just telling the truth."
Tsunade felt a little guilty, but she was still defiant despite her lack of conviction.
"If you're lying to me, I'll never bring you alcohol again."
Tsunade's expression froze instantly.
If there's no wine to drink, then it's better to kill her.
"Actually, it's like this..."
Tsunade changed her sitting posture and put her legs off the coffee table.
"Orochimaru's side is temporarily short of an assistant to do odd jobs for two or three days, so I was thinking... why don't we give you a try?"
Qingyu kept looking at Tsunade.
Tsunade felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze, so she decided to give up and act recklessly.
"Alright, alright, that bastard Jiraiya didn't lend me money this time, it was Orochimaru who lent it to me."
"So Tsunade took a kickback and sold me out?"
Qingyu's question hit the nail on the head.
"You can't say that, can you even sell this...?"
Tsunade's voice grew softer and softer until she finally turned her head away, unable to meet Kiyoyu's gaze.
Qingyu took a deep breath.
He knew it.
In this household, Tsunade is the local tyrant, he is the little male servant, and Shizune is the little female servant.
When the local tyrant was short of money, he would sell his male and female servants without batting an eye.
"Doesn't he have shadow clones? Orochimaru-sama can't possibly not know how to do that."
Qingyu wondered why Orochimaru would be short of menial workers.
"Shadow clones also accumulate fatigue."
Tsunade waved her hand, becoming unusually serious.
"Do you think shadow clones are some kind of all-purpose tool?"
"All the pain and fatigue experienced by the shadow clones will be transmitted back to the original body the moment they are released. If too many shadow clones are created, the original body may even be exhausted to death."
Tsunade said seriously.
Upon hearing this, Qingyu did not refute it further.
What Tsunade said was indeed true.
The mechanism of shadow clones is essentially a double-edged sword; the fatigue accumulated when the shadow clone disappears is instantly poured into the original body.
Therefore, many ninjas know the ordinary "Shadow Clone Technique," but the "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique" is a forbidden technique.
The single-target effects of these two techniques' shadow clones are the same; the only difference is the maximum number of shadow clones that can be created.
Aside from monsters like Naruto, whose chakra reserves are ridiculously high and who have the protagonist's aura, no one dares to use shadow clones as ordinary clones.
"Alright."
Qingyu sighed.
Since there's no way to avoid it, then we have no choice but to go.
Looking at it from another angle, Orochimaru might trigger some good traits.
After all, he is the number one scientist in the ninja world, and his whole body is a treasure.
Qingyu was also very curious: what exactly would this man who pursued immortality lose?
Tsunade visibly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Kiyoyu had agreed.
She stretched comfortably.
She was only wearing a loose nightgown, and as she stretched, the thin nightgown was pulled tight, outlining her curvaceous figure without reservation.
The hem was also lifted up, revealing her slender waist.
Qingyu's gaze was uncontrollably drawn to it, but then quickly looked away.
Unaware of what was happening, Tsunade lazily yawned, got up, and swayed her hips as she walked towards the bedroom, leaving Qingyu with only two swaying back views.
Qingyu subconsciously glanced at it again.
Ok?
He frowned slightly.
Logically speaking, from this angle, there should be a triangular outline below the silhouette.
Could it be...?
Empty?
Qingyu banished the dangerous thought from her mind and turned to walk towards the backyard.
After resting for a while, he still needs to memorize medical knowledge.
Allocating time this way will prevent it from affecting my sleep at night.
Qingyu would never leave her fatigue for the next day.
……
a few days later.
Qingyu followed Tsunade through the streets of Konoha and arrived at a secluded research institute on the edge of the village.
The research institute has a very ordinary appearance; the gray-white walls are covered with ivy, making it look like an ordinary residential building.
But the moment he pushed open the door, Qingyu saw many shelves filled with bottles and jars, containing all sorts of specimens he couldn't name.
Orochimaru stood in a laboratory at the end of the corridor, holding a test tube in his hand, observing the color of the liquid inside under the light.
Hearing footsteps, he put down the test tube and turned around.
It was a face so pale it was almost bloodless, with golden vertical pupils, like the pupils of a snake.
Upon seeing the newcomer, Orochimaru revealed an expression that could be tentatively described as a smile.
"You're here, Tsunade."
Orochimaru's voice is rather hoarse.
"Yes, I've brought the person."
Tsunade crossed her arms and gestured with her chin toward Kiyoyu.
Orochimaru's gaze fell on Qingyu.
Those golden vertical pupils looked Qingyu up and down, then down and up again, scrutinizing her completely.
Lending money to Tsunade was just a casual thing to do.
A few hundred thousand taels is nothing to him.
Conducting an experiment can easily require an investment of several million taels of silver.
What truly interested him was Qingyu herself.
Recently, he has been helping Danzo Shimura research how to balance the side effects of the Sharingan.
While the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan is powerful, its consumption of chakra and the burden on the body are equally astonishing.
If a transplant is performed on a person from another ethnic group, and that person is not strong enough, they may not only fail to gain strength, but their body may also be weakened, becoming a burden.
Moreover, most of the test subjects who received Sharingan transplants experienced rejection reactions.
This reminded him of Qingyu.
The only person in the entire Hidden Leaf Village who naturally possesses the bloodlines of both the Senju and Uchiha.
Orochimaru had noticed this child long before Qingyu enrolled in school.
However, due to Qingyu's sensitive identity and the barrier of Tsunade, he has not taken any action.
Now that Tsunade has offered him this opportunity, he has no reason not to accept it.
"Lord Orochimaru."
Qingyu greeted them first, her attitude neither humble nor arrogant.
"Just call me Orochimaru."
Orochimaru took a few steps closer to observe Qingyu.
[Collectible trait detected: Wish for Immortality]
[D-Rank Trait: Wish for Immortality]
[Effect: You have a desire for immortality, increasing the maximum number of cell divisions.]
[Collectible trait detected: White Snake's Regeneration]
[D-Rank Trait: Regeneration of the White Snake]
[Effect: Legend has it that the White Snake represents luck and rebirth, increasing Yang Release chakra by 20%.]
Qingyu was startled.
Two traits.
I lost two D-level traits after just one meeting.
Moreover, the effects of these two traits are not simply ability bonuses.
The desire for immortality directly affects the upper limit of the number of cell divisions.
This means that his lifespan limit has been significantly increased.
It's important to know that a normal person's cells can only divide a limited number of times in their lifetime, and the appearance of this trait is like adding a few more increments to that limit.
Kiyoyu suspected that Hashirama Senju died so young because his passive ability "Unmarked Healing" was constantly draining his life force.
Human cells have a limited number of divisions, even ninjas are no exception.