Listening to Orochimaru's emotion, Uchiha Tatsu nodded.
"No one is immortal, right?"
"Yes. Nothing is eternal. Even existences like the Sage of Six Paths have disappeared in the long river of history." Orochimaru sighed.
"Aging, and then dying without leaving a trace, life is really an empty thing. Now that I am just twenty years old, I have already deeply felt this thing." Orochimaru said.
"Chen, how do you view life?" Orochimaru narrowed his golden snake eyes and asked suddenly.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Uchiha Chen did not directly answer this question.
In his opinion, Orochimaru's enthusiasm for him was indeed a bit too much.
How could a twenty-year-old Jonin ask such a question to a nine-year-old brat
"Haha... It seems that I asked abruptly." Orochimaru smiled rarely, with a hoarse but magnetic voice.
"I had a strange feeling when I first saw you. I felt that you were different."
"I have observed you for a long time, and I feel that you are a little out of tune with this world. Although you are just a child, I feel that you have a mature soul. This is really interesting."
Uchiha Chen became alert, Orochimaru must be too keen.
"I feel like you are like a gust of wind that will eventually move the whole world. So, I think your answer should be interesting."
Orochimaru paused and continued, "From the day my parents died and I became an orphan, I have been prepared for death."
"However, even if I am like this, the moment I go to the battlefield to fight, I will unconsciously feel very small. This is a completely different feeling from fighting during a ninja mission."
"Death, death is everywhere. When you look around, there are corpses all around. Some belong to the enemy, some are our people. Some are even your contemporaries and good friends."
"And what do you get in exchange for those many sacrifices? Just a lot of experience and knowledge in war."
"Life is such a boring thing."
Orochimaru poured himself another glass of wine.
"Yes. We are all ordinary people. All people are pursuing happiness, but not everyone will achieve happiness." Uchiha Chen nodded.
Orochimaru's eyes were calm and a little sad. After repeating what Uchiha Tatsu said, he seemed to think of something he had lost but could never find again.
After a moment of silence, Uchiha Tatsu picked up the dish in front of him with the chopsticks in his hand and asked.
"Is the war about to begin?"
"Yes, some places have become a mess. The friction between the Country of Rain and the Country of Grass is getting more and more serious." Orochimaru said
"Both the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth have begun to station a large number of troops on the border. If they are allowed to continue to station a large number of troops on the border, once a war breaks out, Konoha will immediately be at a disadvantage."
"Then why did you come back under such circumstances?" Uchiha Chen already had a guess, but still asked with narrowed eyes.
Orochimaru smiled and said in a hoarse voice, "It was the Sandaime Hokage who called us back. The Jonin mission book has been issued."
While smiling, he picked up the peanuts in front of him with his chopsticks and put them into his mouth.
"We will come back as the leading jounin for your group of students." Orochimaru said in a hoarse voice.
"Leading a Jonin team? But we are only in fifth grade and haven't graduated yet." Uchiha Tatsu asked doubtfully.
"Yes. It's just because you haven't graduated that I have to take you on a mission now."
"Once the war starts, no one will have time to take care of you like a nanny. At that time, you children will go directly to the battlefield."
"You genin are the future of Konoha. That's why the third generation old man spent a lot of effort to bring us back. He just wants you to experience the first war when there is no war."
"Once a war breaks out, the genin will always suffer the heaviest casualties in the war."
"Because there is no psychological experience and no adaptation time. We create such an experience just so that the first time you see blood is not in a war. It is always good to have less death."
Uchiha Tatsumi nodded.
"So, Orochimaru-sama, are you my leading Jonin?"
"That's right. It was originally scheduled to be Tsunade's. But the Uchiha clan leader temporarily requested that it be replaced by me." Orochimaru said pointedly.
Uchiha Tatsu said nothing.
Uchiha Mountain... is such a big problem.
"What about Tsunade-sensei?"
"After she went to the teacher for comment, she then broke the door of the Hokage's office."
“…….”
"In the end, after Tsunade extorted two thousand taels from the teacher, she went directly to the casino."
“………”
"Oh, that's it. It seems that in the eyes of Teacher Tsunade, I am worth only two thousand taels." Uchiha Tatsu said helplessly as he touched his hair.
At this time, the owner of the tavern served another roast chicken.
"Well, I'm so sorry. It costs you money. You treat me much better than Mr. Tsunade." Uchiha Tatsumi smiled sheepishly.
However, there was no look of embarrassment on his hands. He picked up the chopsticks and wanted to eat the chicken.
"Don't worry. This chicken is not prepared for you." Orochimaru said, "These are reserved for distinguished guests."
"Dignified guest?"
Orochimaru did not answer Uchiha Tatsu's question, but silently bit his finger, "Psychic art!"
When the seal was completed, Orochimaru pressed his bloody hand to the ground, and white smoke came out. When the smoke dissipated, a small white snake more than one meter long was revealed.
It's just that the snake has two small purple horns on its head.
"Here." Orochimaru picked up the chicken.
The little snake's mouth suddenly opened, then became bigger and bigger, and it swallowed the whole chicken.
Yep, I’m not afraid of choking to death!
After the white snake finished eating the chicken in its mouth, it showed a satisfied expression.
It first glanced at Orochimaru, and then looked noncommittally at Uchiha Tatsu who was regretting the roast chicken.
But that look in his eyes made it look like Uchiha Tatsu was just a piece of trash that had been placed in the wrong place.
“…….”
"Is this kid? He's a little too young." After glancing at Uchiha Tatsumi, White Snake began to speak.
It licked its lips with its tongue and stared directly at Uchiha Tatsumi.
"It doesn't matter, you will need this scroll sooner or later." Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Give it to me."
White Snake did not speak, but still spit out a sealed scroll from his mouth.
"This is a psychic contract. Write your name here in blood."
After pulling the scroll open, Orochimaru pointed to a blank space on it.
"I think you should already know the seals of the psychic art from Jiraiya's stupid apprentice.
"Starting from tomorrow, you will go on missions with me. This contract can be regarded as a gift from me, the teacher."
After writing it, the snake swallowed the contract again, and then went back through the magic of spiritualism.
Then, Orochimaru also turned into smoke and disappeared.
Damn this chicken is a shadow clone again.
Uchiha Tatsu touched the corners of his eyes and smiled.
However, his smile immediately solidified.
A terrible thing suddenly occurred to him.
Orochimaru left without paying...