Chapter 45 - 45 (1/2)
”Ryo Kun, where are you going? Weren't you ordered by Sarutobi Sensei to make these healing stones?”
”I've been making them of the past 3 months, the village should have reserves.” Ryo answered Orochimaru.
”There isn't such a thing as too much of this kind of stone. Ryo Kun, you haven't answered me, where are you going?”
”Orochimaru san, I was going to Konoha's library to read about Wind Release Jutsus.”
”Wind release?” Orochimaru stared thoughtfully at Ryo.
”Yes. We are about to go to war. I want to learn as much as possible before it starts.”
”What does Konoha's library have to do with leaning Ninjutsu?”
Ryo explained: ”Minato Nii-san has a team of new Genins to train, and Jiraya san has missions he has to accomplish. I only have the library to go to.”
”Wind release? I master that. Should I demonstrate the Jutsus to you?”Orochimaru who was really interested in Ryo found his chance!
”Sorry for making you go through the trouble Orochimaru san.” Ryo nodded after staying silent for a while.
As one of the legendary Sannin, Orochimaru's strength was amazing. And at this time, he didn't use [Living Corpse Reincarnation], so his soul was not defected and less susceptible to Genjutsu.
On the 3rd training ground, he demonstrated a variety of wind release Jutsus in front of Ryo, ranging from C class all the way up to A class.
What was special was not just the flawless demonstration, but also the fact that he explained the characteristics and disadvantages of wind release with great detail. Ryo had to admit that when it came to knowledge of Ninjutsu, he exceeded even Jiraya.
After he finished with the demonstration, Orochimaru sat down to have a chat with Ryo.
”Ryo Kun, you are also a medical Ninja. What is life to you?”
This question reminded Ryo of the Manga. As a result of his parent's death, Orochimaru began his quest to finding the meaning behind life. The more he explored, the more he found how fragile and short it was.
He was a Ninjutsu genius, so his contempt for life's fragility and shortness, made him try to find the Ninjutsu for immortality.
Through the years of research, he became more and more indifferent to other people's life and death, and has increasingly resorted to unscrupulous methods. He ended up using Ninjas and even children from his own village, Konoha, as test subject.
The 1st time Ryo saw him in the anime, he perceived him as the most evil of all. The reason was very simple: No one who's good would kill their own loving teacher.
However, Orochimaru's image began changing little by little. The way he survived and clinged to life just like a snake, along with the character development over the course of the story made Ryo feel that he was a really interesting person.
After that, his return to save Tsunade during the war made was badass.
In his past world, Ryo was raised under the red flag of capitalism, accepting a materialistic look at life during his education, and he was also a medical worker. This all made him really intrigued by this character that seemed to have no god but science.
Every time he tried to evaluate the characters of the story, it went on like this: ”Some believed in willpower, others believed in the bloodline, others believed in ocular power, and others believed in Taijutsu, many believed in hard work. But Orochimaru, and only Orochimaru, believed in science.”