"With his scientific literacy not even up to the level of a layman, he couldn't have researched such a creature,"
"Orochimaru is the most likely possibility,"
"Next, it would be Yakushi Kabuto, who defected just before the Chunin exams. He's Orochimaru's disciple, but he also harbors his own ambitions,"
After ending the call, Sakura contacted Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru, tell me, is the monster in the northwestern part of the Land of Red related to you?"
Facing Sakura's projection, Orochimaru smiled, "Leader, what does this have to do with me?"
The issue with Yakushi Kabuto truly had nothing to do with him.
Though Yakushi Kabuto was his student...
But Sakura didn't ask about their relationship, did she?
"Don't play dumb. If it's not you, then it must be Yakushi Kabuto. He is your disciple, let him show himself," Sakura's Chakra projection through a body abandoned by Orochimaru, solidified into form, creating a clone that appeared before Orochimaru.
