Chapter 219 - 219 (2/2)
”If you want to carry on with that nonsense, I'll just excuse myself!” As she said that, Koharu turned around to leave.
Danzo stood up and stopped her: ”Koharu, wait a minute! We really have something important to call you for today.”
”What the hell is it? Hurry up!” Koharu turned and said impatiently.
”Here's the deal! We want you to help us collect a few war orphans under the age of 10. You can see how dire Root's situation is right now. I need new blood to supplement my troops, and this had always been something you did. Believe me; I'll make it up to you!”
Koharu remained silent for a while, and then finally agreed to fulfill Danzo's request. After so many years of being their comrade, she just couldn't let him down.
With that settled, she eventually left the place. With that, Homura's face changed and he said: ”Danzo, is that Orochimaru really capable of making Wood Release using Ninjas?”
”He should be able to pull it off; he and I made a deal.” Danzo said faintly.
”I hope he can really do it! For this plan, we gave of a lot of our authorities to Minato, just to make him less vigilant. If this fails, the price would be too heavy.”
”Homura, you can rest assured! Wood Release is the Will of Fire's most powerful heritage. As long as we can reproduce Wood Release using Ninjas, we'll be able to retrieve what we sacrificed tenfold!”
”I hope so!” Homura sighed and left as well.
A few days later, Danzo took over a dozen children to Orochimaru's lab. They were all the orphans under 10 years of age that he could find.
”Orochimaru, I've got what you requested. You can start, right?”
After Orochimaru checked the children, he nodded with satisfaction, and told Danzo that he'll begin experimenting immediately.
Once in the Lab, Ryo frowned upon hearing the crying of all the children, and he felt very uncomfortable.
”Ryo kun, Danzo has only sent these few children this time. What shall we start with?”
Ryo quickly answered: ”Orochi san, we don't have to get all of these children to participate in the experiments. I have a way to determine which among them may become Wood Release users, and which ones who simply could never pull it off.”
Orochimaru frowned, having some doubts about Ryo's intentions: ”Ryo kun, you're not just trying to save these children, are you?”
Ryo did not think that Orochimaru would so easily guess his purpose. In fact, that was the main reason why Ryo wanted to participate in these experiments in the first place; to make them less horrible then what happened in the Manga.
Being one who learned modern medicine in his past life, he could not tolerate the mere idea of non-ethical human experimentation, let alone doing that on a group of children.
However, Ryo did not admit this, and instead explained very calmly: ”Orochi san, you already know that I've acquired genes from Hashirama's genome; you also know of my clan's secret techniques. Using both factors, I can perceive the children's vitality, and judge whether or not they could withstand the 1st's cells.”
Orochimaru listened to him silently. After some thought, he decided to temporarily agree with his suggestion.
Ryo was finally relieved. What he had just said was actually half-true. He could indeed perceive the children's vitality, but that was not enough for him to predict the results of the experiments.
His actual plan was to look into the children's memories one by one, to try to find the Manga's Yamato. This way, he could let Orochimaru fulfill his wish of witnessing Wood Release, while sparing the lives of all the children…