Chapter 347 “Something in human skin”!
"Don't think that if you say that, we will let you go immediately, Langui."
Nara Shikano glanced sideways at Nara Langui, not appreciating the latter's "praise" at all.
We are all Nara ninjas, who doesn't know who's true nature?
Want to casually drop a sentence and slip away to rest?
If it was a normal matter, Nara Kano could still turn a blind eye.
But this is a campaign for Hokage!
Can you show off some energy?
"...Okay."
Nara Langui's expression froze, and the solemn expression he had just moments ago immediately collapsed. He raised his chin with one hand and analyzed boredly.
"Brother Minato is favored by the Third Hokage. This is a normal thing.
" Putting aside the credit and prestige gained by Brother Minato in the three battles, he also has the support of Jiraiya, the Sannin behind him, and Mount Miaomu, a holy place, promoted the name of 'Son of Prophecy' for him.
"If I were the Third Hokage and wanted to find a follower in the village to accompany the Five Shadows Conference, I would also choose Brother Minato. He is young, handsome, powerful, and has a high reputation... "But to accompany the Third Hokage to the Five Shadows Conference
, It's not necessarily true that Brother Minato can become the next Hokage.
"Isn't the third Mizukage from the next village the most striking example?"
In recent times, the Nara clan has collected and compiled a lot of information about the first Five Kage talks.
All three people here know that the third Mizukage once accompanied the first Mizukage to attend the Five Kage Conference, but the position of the second Mizukage was taken away by the Oniden Gengetsu of the Oniden clan.
If we have to analyze the reasons, we can only speculate that during the second-generation Mizukage campaign, the overall strength of Oniden Genzuki was better than that of the current third-generation Mizukage.
Isn't this very similar to the current situation in Konoha?
Sarutobi Hiruzen preferred Namikaze Minato and planned to take him to attend the second Five Kage Conference.
However, in terms of overall strength performance.
Nara will definitely not lose to Namikaze Minato when he takes Gui!
If the position of the Fourth Hokage is obtained through a "showdown", Nara Langui is confident that he will not lose to any opponent.
Now, he is still stronger.
After listening to Nara Langui's analysis, both the old patriarch and his son nodded in approval.
Only the qualifications to participate in the Five Shadows Conference.
This little thing cannot affect the overall situation.
"Except for Brother Minato, what have everyone else done recently?"
Nara Langui thought for a while and narrowed down the target range.
"Ignoring those who are obviously accompanying him, what has Orochimaru done recently?"
In fact, in Nara Langui's heart, Orochimaru is also destined to accompany him.
Not to mention that Nara Langui has a lot of negative information about Orochimaru in his hands.
Just say a little.
The backer behind Orochimaru is Shimura Danzo.
And the background of Namikaze Minato is Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Purely natural pressed.
Even without the existence of Nara Langui, Orochimaru is destined to be unable to compete with Namikaze Minato.
But...
strategically, we despise the enemy, but tactically, we value the enemy.
Nara Langui doesn't want to lose his chain at such a critical moment.
"No..."
Nara Shikaku shook his head and frowned slightly.
"Lan Gui, you may not have noticed this information before. In fact, Lord Orochimaru has not appeared in public for a long time. "Even when he was
sitting on the battlefield of Grass Country, Lord Orochimaru had been He lives in seclusion. Except for a few close friends, few people can see him.
"After returning to the village, Lord Orochimaru basically did not go out for activities.
"In the past week, Lord Orochimaru has only appeared in public once. About four days ago, he went to the torture department in the village.
"I asked the ninja who was in charge of the torture department at that time. His evaluation of Lord Orochimaru... was very bad." "
What?"
Nara Langui raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Did Orochimaru attack the ninjas of the Torture Department?"
"That's not the case. After all, we are all companions in the village." Nara Shikaku shook his head quickly. He didn't have a good impression of Orochimaru either. But the other party was a high-ranking Sannin after all.
"It's just that according to the ninja of the Torture Department - Ihiki Morino...
"The Lord Orochimaru he saw did not look like a human being, but like... something wearing human skin.
"Shikaku, are you sure the person you asked is correct? " "
Nara Shikano was stunned for a moment and looked at his son in surprise.
"I have dealt with Orochimaru many times. His temperament is a little cold and arrogant, and he is indeed not easy to get along with, but he is not like you in any way. That's what he said.
"Still wearing human skin... Isn't Orochimaru a human?"
"I just repeated the words of the torture department ninja."
Nara Shikaku spread his hands, looking helpless.
"After all, I haven't had personal contact with Lord Orochimaru for a long time...
" But Morino Ihiki doesn't seem like someone who likes to exaggerate. "
Nara Langui was also deep in thought while listening to the conversation between the old patriarch and his son.
He was quite familiar with Orochimaru's life experience.
After failing to run for the Fourth Hokage, Orochimaru defected to Konoha directly because of the discovery of human experiments. , and then wandered in the ninja world, embarking on the road of being completely inhumane.
Especially after various "cursed seals" were developed, it is really difficult to define Orochimaru's personal life state.
But Nara Langui does know a little bit better.
Orochimaru's "body state" is indeed complicated.
But his "soul state" is not necessarily the same.
No matter how Orochimaru "spits me out" or "snake spits me out", he always has only one soul.
This will be revealed later . It can be seen that Uchiha Itachi's Ten Fist Sword can completely "ban" Orochimaru.
If Nara Shikaku just said that there is no problem.
It can only show one thing - there is something wrong with Orochimaru's soul!
'Could it be said that Orochimaru Have you embarked on the path of soul research? Have you even started research on the art of reincarnation? It feels like the time is not right...' '
If it weren't for the art of reincarnation, what other reason could Orochimaru's soul have? Something went wrong?'
'Reincarnation from dirty soil? The art of Yamata? Or...a curse seal? '
One idea after another flashed through Nara Langui's mind, but due to the lack of intelligence, it was impossible to draw accurate conclusions.
"No matter what, if there is nothing wrong with what Shikaku said just now, then this is good news."
Nara Shikano stroked his beard, temporarily discarding those difficult questions and directly focused on the key to the problem.
"It's not important why Orochimaru became like this.
"What's important is that as a strong competitor of the Fourth Hokage, Orochimaru's current state is very wrong. Even ordinary ninjas will be intimidated when they see him.
"Then this way, Orochimaru is doomed to fail in the jonin class voting!"
According to Nara Shikaku's introduction, the ninja named Morino Ihiki is just an ordinary chuunin, with certain skills in torture. talent.
But even the chuunin can detect Orochimaru's problem, how could the jounin with better overall quality not discover it?
Even though Orochimaru's personal condition is not as bad as Nara Shikaku said.
But the "monster in human skin" theory is only half credible.
It was basically impossible for Orochimaru to successfully run for the Fourth Hokage... The
three of Nara and Gui continued to talk about the fourth generation Hokage for a while, and finally finalized the general campaign plan before talking about another major event.
"Lan Gui, what are you going to do with that 'empty area'?"
Orochimaru must have a reason to start research on the art of immortal reincarnation.
But the original comic didn't write it...it's very awkward.
In other words, this is a BUG.
I personally think that Orochimaru started researching the art of immortal reincarnation because there was something wrong with his body.
It does not refer to issues such as "aging" or "mutation".
[Personal speculation] It was because Uchiha Itachi cut off one of Orochimaru's arms, and then Orochimaru began to reincarnate.
If there is a chance in the future, I may make an analysis post on this issue. For now... I can only stay at speculative conclusions
(end of this chapter)