Manda saw that Orochimaru did not immediately resort to beating it up as soon as they met, but instead said he wanted to talk.
Having long since prepared to slip away, Manda looked at Orochimaru with suspicion. It was truly because it had been beaten to the point of terror these past few days; old wounds had yet to heal while new ones kept appearing, leaving its entire body in agonizing pain.
If not for the Senjutsu chakra, it would have suspected that Orochimaru would have long since taken it apart to make snake soup. Now it had also grown wiser, thinking that even if it couldn't afford to provoke him, it could at least hide from him.
Chapter 43