Naruto found a wife; that's truly cause for celebration.
Orochimaru licked his lips, smiling.
He didn't really care about that; he was more concerned with whether Neji's power had been fully developed.
That was what was useful to them.
Satoru: "Hey, I didn't expect you to care about this. Good news, my wife is pregnant again. When are you two single guys going to invite me to your wedding banquet?"
Indeed, he was going to have another child.
Hearing Orochimaru bring up this topic, Neji's situation was no longer important.
His fourth child.
He had already accomplished his goal of coming to this world.
Now, it was about continuing to live, raising these descendants well, and providing them with a good living environment.
"No, who wants to know you're having another child?" Orochimaru was speechless.
He just mentioned it casually, and you latched onto it.
However, he had already come to understand Satoru's mischievous nature.
Instead of engaging with him, he turned to Kabuto and said, "Collect the data. We need to develop other projects now."
Kabuto: "Understood."
Kabuto now listened to Orochimaru because he genuinely provided money.
In just these few days, the orphanage's environment had begun to improve.
Many Ninja architects were hired to renovate the buildings.
Numerous types of teachers were brought in to educate the children at the orphanage.
A small amusement park was even built for the orphanage children to play in.
They were now eating nutritious food.
He was very grateful to Lord Orochimaru now.
After joining the Technology Development Bureau, the orphanage's development had been too rapid.
It was like it was on a rocket.
That guy, Satoru, really had a lot of money.
"You guys are so boring. Although Neji's project is important, for humans, reproduction is also very important.
And being able to experience a different life while reproducing offspring,
that's much better than your endless research, isn't it?
After all, all research is for solving problems encountered in life."
Satoru complained.
Two research fanatics.
They had even passed on many habits to his son.
Now, Keigo only slept four or five hours a day, constantly running off to research his own things.
If he hadn't already mastered Chakra, Keigo would probably have died suddenly by now.
At such a young age.
Orochimaru: "You don't understand me."
Kabuto: "You don't understand Lord Orochimaru."
"What the hell, what have you two been hiding from me?" Satoru heard their tone and felt as if Orochimaru had given birth to a child.
"I'll go pick up Neji. You two chat." Kabuto ran out of the laboratory.
Orochimaru silently opened a screen, displaying a baby submerged in a liquid.
The baby's breathing was steady, as if it could breathe even in the liquid.
There was also some data displayed.
"Technology Development Bureau, District 5, Experimental Project, Clone." Satoru read it out word by word.
So it was in District 5; no wonder he didn't know.
And it was hidden too well.
"Don't worry, this is a clone created using my life information.
Of course, I wouldn't create someone exactly like me. His clone also incorporates other elements,
including Hashirama cells, and some Ōtsutsuki body information.
This is what you're best at; I added it there."
Orochimaru smiled proudly, looking at the baby.
"From now on, he will be my child. The process of conceiving life is also something worth researching."
"You're amazing."
Satoru was speechless.
Asexual reproduction.
Speaking of which, is Orochimaru male or female now?
He looked at Orochimaru curiously.
"Neji is back. His Chakra is a bit over-depleted. He probably isn't used to these eyes,
leading to overuse due to unfamiliarity with the consumption."
Kabuto helped Neji walk back.
Orochimaru ignored Satoru and quickly stepped forward, using Ninjutsu to place Neji on the examination table.
He began controlling the machines to conduct research on Neji.
Neji didn't resist, just lay there quietly.
"Suddenly gaining power can indeed be disorienting, just like Sasuke back then.
Fortunately, Neji's talent is much better than Sasuke's in some aspects."
Satoru watched as data points were generated one by one.
In his perception, the neural reactions remaining on Neji had disappeared.
Orochimaru was already able to decipher his nerves and suppress them.
What an amazing scientist.
Fortunately, in these past few days, his development of forced execution had progressed further.
It had already reached an atomic level of depth.
He didn't believe that at this point, what Orochimaru researched could still be suppressed.
Aside from occasionally coming to the Technology Development Bureau to ask Orochimaru for data, he spent most of his time in Kaguya's Starting Ball Space, using Orochimaru's research on Urashiki's data to interpret Kaguya's body.
He was also making progress.
--- Konoha Office.
"What, Neji possesses such power?" Hyuga Hiashi, summoned by Kakashi, arrived here.
Hearing Kakashi's words, he was extremely shocked.
Around them were also Naruto, Hinata, and Hanabi.
It was hard to imagine that an attack of such intensity could have been accomplished by Neji.
How did he do it?
Hanabi: "Big Brother Neji is so amazing, hmm—though I didn't see how amazing he was."
She had already fallen asleep in Toneri's palace and had no sense of participation at all.
No, her eyes had been used by Toneri.
So, she did have some sense of participation.
Naruto: "Yes, Neji's power has already surpassed the Five Kage."
He had witnessed it firsthand.
It was too incredible.
Hyuga Hiashi smiled slightly: "That's truly wonderful."
The Hyuga Clan had now abolished the Caged Bird system.
He felt relieved about this.
However, he was also curious how Neji came to possess such strong power.
"Where is Neji then?" Hiashi asked.
He didn't see Neji's figure here.
Kakashi: "He went to the Technology Development Bureau. I heard that Satoru had assigned him a confidential mission before, and it seems that mission is related to Neji's increase in strength. It's likely they've indeed developed something extraordinary."
Recently, Tenten had often come to bother him.
Just to get Neji out of the confidential mission.
It wasn't that Tenten didn't understand the importance of confidential missions.
But for two people deeply in love, it was an agonizing situation.
"Human experimentation?" Hiashi immediately thought of this.
The director of the Technology Development Bureau was Orochimaru, after all.
Kakashi: "With Satoru watching over him, he's at ease. Moreover, the three elders of the Technology Development Bureau just solved the problem of the meteor falling from the sky."
The power of the three just now showed him the potential of the Technology Development Bureau.
Especially with Neji also being a part of it.
However, there was one problem.
It seemed they had developed some technology behind his back and hadn't reported it at all.
Originally, he hadn't paid attention because Satoru was overseeing it.
Now that everyone in the Technology Development Bureau had undergone such strong changes, he had to make them account for it.