- I have plenty of time now, and meditating instead of being a guinea pig for these four enthusiasts seems like the best thing to do," the Sunovian puppet shrugged.
- Hey, we're improving you, not conducting dubious experiments! - came from the open door to the lab from one of the experimental scientists.
- 'Except you're testing most of them on me first,' the former Kazekage shouted back, 'which at this point I can't even really evaluate!
- You're too tenacious not to take the opportunity to waste the minimum number of test subjects available to us! - Was his reply. - Just try to argue that you're not!
Perfect Marionette muttered something to himself, but he didn't continue cursing, admitting defeat. Rasa's carcass was indeed very survivable, and with gradual improvement, it became even more unkillable, albeit a little slower to adapt the copy of my consciousness, but time was running out and there was no time for long safe research.
It was better to use a body that would not die instantly, adding to the work, but would give an opportunity to roll back the changes made.
Suffice it to say that this approach justified itself and thanks to the modifications made to the central nervous system, my reaction speed improved almost twofold, which became noticeable even in normal life and took some getting used to.
The Shikotsumyaku (Dead Bone Pulse) modifications to the muscle structure were almost complete, and I could begin the deeper modernization of my muscular frame, especially since my skeleton was better prepared for it than even an iryonin of my level would have been.
It was only a matter of tendons, but the lab kage bunshins had already given the green light, subjecting not only the former Kage but also Kaguya to the procedure. In a couple days, it was scheduled to be my turn at night time as well.
- Okay, that's all well and good, but that's not why I'm here," he turned to the black-haired shinobi, "I got word from Orochimaru that the ordered equipment will arrive tomorrow morning....
- ...which means that we can start deploying the second base in Oni no Kuni," the shinobi said, "since everything else is ready and dusting in the scrolls.
How nice it is to be understood half-heartedly! Of course, it wasn't necessary to come in person to deliver the news, but I'd recently caught myself thinking that this way of communication had become painfully habitual, and the need to convey my point of view to the usual interlocutors with words was starting to irritate me with slowness and fragmentation.
This was the first alarm bell that I did not ignore, and now I prefer to communicate more by means of the method created by evolution, leaving chakra only for special occasions and receiving reports from kampeki ningyo, to get to them in a short time would be too long and tense. I'm not going to run to the capital just to get the standard report that everything is fine, am I?
- Exactly," I nodded at him, "and so, due to the delay, I had to stay more than a month behind schedule.
- Not without benefit, considering my regained fitness," the nameless Sunovian hummed.
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