"Oh?"
Orochimaru cupped his breasts with both arms, puffed out his chest, and said, "It's a pity that more people prefer larger ones. The rare value of flat chests will eventually be swept into the trash, unwanted."
Orochimaru didn't want his chest to grow too large. Its current size was just right; it didn't hinder movement and wasn't too small.
"Ugh..."
Ichikishimahime looked at the pale peaks bouncing with Orochimaru's movements, her face flushed, and the sake bottle in her hand shattered with a bang.
"You big-chested bad woman! I'll fight you!"
The water in the hot spring enveloped the bottle fragments, which then fell to the ground.
Orochimaru controlled the water flow with one hand and placed the other on Ichikishimahime's head to prevent her from getting close.
"I'm just speaking the truth. Why are you getting angry?"
Orochimaru sighed lightly, as if saying the truth was very difficult.
Crack—!
Ichikishimahime, almost exploding with anger, transformed into a white snake and bit Orochimaru's right hand between his thumb and forefinger.
"So easily provoked."
Orochimaru looked amusedly at Ichikishimahime, who had directly reverted to her original form, as if he felt no pain.
"Doesn't it hurt?"
Ichikishimahime changed back to human form, looked at the wound on Orochimaru's right hand between his thumb and forefinger, and swallowed the blood in her mouth.
"Want me to try biting you?"
Orochimaru opened his mouth, revealing sharpened teeth, scaring Ichikishimahime, who scurried away like a startled rabbit, unfortunately stepping on the sake bottle fragments.
"The wound has already healed."
Orochimaru showed Ichikishimahime the healed wound. "This is the Regeneration Technique I developed, but it's not yet perfect."
"It seems even if I bite you, you won't get hurt."
Orochimaru looked at Ichikishimahime's fair, delicate feet.
"Ouch—!"
Ichikishimahime belatedly felt the pain in her feet.
"Are you an idiot?"
Orochimaru raised a hand to his forehead. She had thought Ichikishimahime's Sage Body wouldn't get hurt. She had thought too much; without protecting herself with Sage Chakra, she would still get hurt.
"It's all your fault! If you hadn't scared me, hiss! How would I have stepped on the bottle fragments?!"
Ichikishimahime sat on Orochimaru's lap, grimacing in pain. She had wanted to enjoy the hot spring, so she hadn't used Sage Chakra to protect her body, and this was the result.
"It'll be better soon."
Orochimaru carefully picked out the bottle fragments embedded in Ichikishimahime's sole, treated the wound with Mystical Palm Technique, waved his hand to make the blood on the fragments disappear, and used Wind Release Chakra to create a wind that rolled up the bottle fragments and threw them into the trash can.
"Why did you do that?"
Ichikishimahime looked at Orochimaru's actions of cleaning up the blood, puzzled.
Orochimaru explained, "To prevent unnecessary trouble, it's best not to leave substances containing cells like blood anywhere, lest others exploit them."
"Aren't you being a bit too cautious?"
Ichikishimahime didn't think her blood could be used for anything.
"It's never wrong to be cautious..."
Orochimaru didn't believe he was the only one researching biotechnology in this world. Looking at Ichikishimahime, who was still sitting on his lap, he said, "How much longer do you plan to sit on my lap?"
"Ah..."
Ichikishimahime remembered something, leaned into Orochimaru's arms, and looked at him with expectant deep blue eyes, suggesting, "Shall we try?"
"I'm not interested in being casual partners with a thousand-year-old loli, and I don't need casual partners."
Orochimaru rejected Ichikishimahime's suggestion without hesitation and got up to leave.
"Why?! Am I not pretty? I can't say I'm sexy, but I'm very cute!"
Ichikishimahime floated beside Orochimaru, pointing at her cheeks with both hands, completely unashamed of her words.
"What matters is emotion, not desire. Desire is merely a seasoning for emotion."
Orochimaru used Water Release Chakra to absorb the water droplets from Ichikishimahime's skin and hair, put a yukata on her, and couldn't understand her peculiar thought process.
"Hmph, hypocrite!"
Ichikishimahime's cheeks puffed out slightly.
"That's not hypocrisy, it's a bottom line."
Orochimaru poked Ichikishimahime's forehead, enunciating each word: "It! Is! A! Bottom! Line! People must have a bottom line!"
"But I'm a snake! What does having a human bottom line have to do with me, a snake?"
"..."
Orochimaru looked at Ichikishimahime in shock, rendered speechless by her words. After a long pause, he said, "You have a point."
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