A dim basement.
"Danzo, still refusing to repent?"
"Hmph! This old man will never submit to you! Don't think I don't know that you'd never let me go, even if I did!"
"Oh, you've got quite a lot of resolve. Well, goodbye, then. Orochimaru, let's go."
Orochimaru glanced over coldly. Picking a fight with the ruler was a good way to get yourself killed!
"Let go of this old man!"
"Smack!"
"Drip!"
"Drip!"
"Sizzle!"
"Aaaaaah!"
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