I am the most popular character in Naruto!

"……I have no idea."

Chiaki shook his head blankly, looking at Orochimaru with a complicated expression.

If Orochimaru was able to understand the soul and the truth about death, then would she also have the opportunity to understand the truth about her own time travel?

Even...back to Earth?

Qianqiu was stunned by her own thoughts.

Is it really possible to go back to Earth?

but……

Chiaki looked up at Orochimaru in a daze. On Earth, "Chiaki" was just a lonely, shut-in otaku, but in this world, she had so many bonds, so many things she couldn't bear to part with...

Even if she could go back, would she want to go back...?

Chapter 88 The Temptation of Aunt Snake

"I understand, after all, this research direction is too broad."

Noticing Chiaki's blank expression, Orochimaru smiled and said, "This is a subject worth studying for a lifetime. There's no rush."

"Let's get started. Maybe later I'll need to study the influence of human gender and emotions on the soul."

"I'll research gender transformation when the time comes, and you'll have to help me experience emotions, Chiaki."

"Um……"

Qianqiu was so absorbed in the thought of returning to Earth that she hadn't realized what Orochimaru was talking about, and just mumbled a reply.

But a few seconds later, she suddenly realized what was happening.

What...

Orochimaru wants to research gender transformation?

Wouldn't he really turn into Snake Aunt?

And I also have to help him understand the emotions?

Huh?!

Doesn't this bring us back to the question that Snake Auntie asked herself out of a perverse sense of humor?

Is this... a confession?

A confession from Snake Aunt?

"Um... Aunt Snake, are you kidding me?"

Chiaki stared blankly at Orochimaru, who licked his lips and smiled sinisterly.

"Who knows?"

"Hey—don't make fun of me!"

Chiaki scratched his head with his hands in a fit of anger. He could throw away the question of whether or not to go back to Earth. What he needed to deal with right now was Snake Aunt's confession!

Orochimaru simply smiled, stood up from his chair, and waved to Chiaki.

"Come on, I want to test a ninjutsu."

"what?"

With her messy pink hair, Chiaki stood up blankly after Orochimaru.

Aunt Snake, what exactly do you want from me?

Orochimaru casually pressed a button on the wall, and a hidden door suddenly opened, releasing a strong smell of formaldehyde.

Chiaki frowned slightly and followed Orochimaru into the dark room.

"I have preserved some corpses of ninjas from other countries here, which can be used for the next experiment."

Orochimaru pointed to something, and Chiaki looked closely. Several troughs were filled with pale-faced corpses and formalin.

These corpses, due to their defeat in battle, were either disemboweled or missing limbs; the scene was extremely gruesome and would be quite disturbing for ordinary people.

"how do you feel?"

Orochimaru stared intently at Chiaki, who merely frowned and said, "Next time, please wash it before putting it in formaldehyde, otherwise it's easy for bacteria to grow and cause illness."

Just kidding, the Resident Evil series is also within Chiaki's hunting range, okay? Besides, she's a medical ninja, so this level of corpses is acceptable to her.

"……it is good."

Orochimaru smirked. Chiaki was just that good to him. If it were Tsunade, she probably would have exploded long ago.

Experimenting on corpses is still considered a great disrespect in this era.

Of course, besides Orochimaru, another man once did something similar that was extremely disrespectful.

"Qianqiu, let's try to restore the life force of the corpse first."

Orochimaru separated the corpse from the other body in a separate container. This corpse looked intact, with no parts missing, which was a way of taking care of Chiaki's senses.

Restore vitality?

Qianqiu pricked up her ears and breathed a sigh of relief.

In other words, Orochimaru is no longer planning to continue on that topic and has returned to his research on the soul.

That's wonderful...

I was almost scared to death by Aunt Snake.

what?

Will we face this problem again in the future?

Then leave it to my future self. What does it have to do with me now?

"learn."

Qianqiu nodded quickly, then changed her mind and asked, "Aunt Snake, you want to test whether the restoration of life force can allow the soul to return to the body, right?"

"That's right. Does the soul actually exist within the body? What is the relationship between life force and the soul? And what is the relationship between the body and life force?"

Orochimaru laughed maniacally, "We need to unravel all these secrets step by step."

"As expected of the Second Hokage's experimental subject, it would be great if his research data had been preserved."

He looked at Qianqiu with regret, and Qianqiu shrugged.

She didn't really care about being called an experimental subject, since after transmigrating, all the memories of this body had disappeared due to Tobirama Senju's seal.

"The only information I have access to on this topic is the only one available."

Orochimaru squinted and said, "The secret technique created by the Second Hokage, Impure World Reincarnation!"

"Reincarnation from the dirty soil!"

Chiaki exclaimed in surprise as well. Orochimaru looked at her with surprise and a hint of expectation, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Qianqiu, do you know this technique?"

"Ah... um... I think I've heard of it, but I don't know the specifics..."

Chiaki blinked innocently. How could she not know about this ninjutsu that almost determined the outcome of the Fourth Shinobi World War?

He only mentioned the specific principles... but he didn't write them out in AB either!

"That's right..."

Orochimaru shook his head slightly. "It's normal to have heard of the Impure World Reincarnation. After all, Chiaki should be one of the key figures in the Second Hokage's research on the Impure World Reincarnation, an experiment in immortality."

"It's such a pity that all the data has been destroyed. We have to start the experiment from scratch..."

He seemed a little disappointed, but quickly cheered up.

"Since the Second Hokage succeeded, there's no reason why we can't. Besides, we're working backward from the Edo Tensei experiment, which is simpler than his method!"

Orochimaru thought for a moment and handed a scroll on the table to Chiaki. "Take a look at this first. It's the method for casting the Impure World Reincarnation. I haven't figured it out yet."

"Although the spell can be cast, it is very strange that it cannot bring the corpse back to life as described in the text."

"Perhaps I failed to capture the soul of the deceased."

Orochimaru said helplessly, "When it comes to research topics, he becomes very talkative."

It was precisely because he couldn't understand the principles of the Impure World Reincarnation that he hurriedly pulled Chiaki, a key figure in the experiment, to conduct experiments and research on the soul together.

"what……"

Chiaki took the scroll, touched her cheek, and asked shyly, "By the way, Aunt Snake, is it really okay for me to come into contact with the Impure World Reincarnation technique? Isn't it a sealing technique?"

"What's wrong?"

Orochimaru tapped Chiaki's forehead, grinned, and said, "Don't forget, you are someone who doesn't need to follow the rules."

"oh oh……"

Chiaki touched her forehead, unsure how to face Orochimaru.

Nodding foreheads is a very intimate gesture, and Chiaki's wild thoughts, which she had finally managed to suppress, resurfaced.

Aunt Snake is too close to and trusts me too much...

Speaking of which, is Snake really going to change her gender and experience a romantic relationship with herself?

Although I really admire Snake Aunt's looks... and also want to be close to girls...

But something just doesn't feel right...

Huh?

If gender conversion were developed, wouldn't I be able to turn back into a boy?

Etc., etc……

If he were to turn back into a boy, Kushina definitely wouldn't want to be close to him, because Minato would absolutely not allow it.

Similarly, Tsunade would also give up on getting close to herself because Jiraiya stopped her.

So, all that's left... is Snake Auntie?