Sounds like Hazō's been hanging out with Rock Lee or something.
Come to think of it, as missing-nin standing in opposition to the group who enforce international agreements, we no longer have any reason not to violate the Rock Lee Non-Proliferation treaty...
[Χ] Buy a You-
- wait, no, we'd have to level taijutsu, never mind.
Ah, he does have minions! Or at least one minion. I was kind of expecting the Sound Four, or whatever they'd be called.
Also happens to Kei. And Orochimaru, though he at least has the excuse of having probably the highest social skill in the setting*, even if it's Intimidation. Hazō hasn't had one yet though.
* I figure up at the top there's Pain's presence (but he's dead), Oro's intimidate, Ami's presence, Kabuto's rapport. Maybe there's a deceit-spec up in the top ranks, it's not like we'd know.
Yup - random Orochimaru fangirl.
Like I said.
Wait, is that a thing he can do?
Possible reading comprehension failure, but I don't recall any previous mention of a dome existing
Ah, and that's why Oro doesn't have his own Wakahisa. They might need someone in Mist enforcing this, which is good because if so it limits the amount of manpower at the rift.
Okay, this actually makes sense. I'm now much less worried about his motives.
This kind of thing is why I occasionally gripe about us being bad at running a research program.
Anyone remember if we ever difficulty-checked it?
So I think he's hiding something significant, but it's not combat-relevant against the rift site.
Fortunately, we're also hiding something significant that's not combat-relevant against the rift site.
Flagging this as interesting phrasing, not the more normal "I plan to spend several hours brainstorming and reflecting". Not sure what to read into it. Playing with intentional shadow clone divergence for alternate points of view, maybe? Cognitive bioseals? Or maybe he just has a brainstorming procedure and there's nothing weird to it.
I favor just not using it, except perhaps briefly at opportune moments such as during the initial bombardment (assuming it can be turned off). It hinders our side much more than theirs.
I basically trust his judgement on this, considering that he's worked with them in the past.
As I thought, they'll keep the summoners on different teams when possible, but it appears I'd overestimated Konan's tendency to stay in Rain.
I predicted Kisame at the rift site because Kagome's approach to rift opening with graphoseals requires huge amounts of chakra. Does Oro not buy this, or has he not thought of it? I lean towards the latter, AFAIK he never familiarized himself with our pre-Runecrafting dimensionalism work that they stole, so there's no reason he should know this about it. If so, worth mentioning it to him.
But aside from all that, if he thinks that 4+ of them including Itachi are guarding the rift, why was he willing to attack it without us? I just don't believe that Oro + Leaf would have much chance of winning that without clone/boss rush or relevent runes which he claims not to have.
Orochimaru lived in Leaf with Naruto as Kage longer than we did, you'd think he'd know this, even if he is pretty reclusive.
So how long will the surgeries + recovery take, assuming we do agree to them?
