Doctor Brief

"Brief was fairly lucky."

After spending some time sorting through the memories in his mind, Hyuga Mirai spoke.

Doctor Brief was a top-tier scientist in the Dragon Ball World. He was somewhat improper, but if Brief devoted himself to research, his achievements could eclipse most others.

It was just that his lust ran rather high. In the memories Hyuga Mirai had received, Doctor Brief considered his greatest invention to be a bookshelf that sorted and arranged pornographic periodicals. It could swiftly swap pornographic books and magazines with ordinary magazines in just 0.1 seconds, ensuring his family would never notice.

As a result, his collection was quite extensive. In the end, because he had nowhere to store it, he put it all into the Space Capsule he carried with him.

Besides that, Doctor Brief was also a genius. After studying Androids and Saiyan spacecraft for the first time, he could immediately improve upon them. His talent for learning was no less than Stark’s.

The system’s draws were highly random. Any scientist could be drawn, regardless of time or place. Hyuga Mirai had been fortunate enough to draw Scientist Templates from one groundbreaking inventor after another. If his luck had been slightly worse and his first draw had been a Nobel, that would have been terrible.

"18, I have good news for you. I can modify you again now—and it’ll be a massive enhancement."

Hyuga Mirai immediately connected to the database and brought up every self-improvement plan 18 had devised. After looking through them, he discarded most of them and prepared to redesign her.

"Sir, may I make a few requests?" 18’s voice rang through the Laboratory via the communicator.

"Of course. But don’t stop your calculations. Help me compute some data."

After saying that, Hyuga Mirai felt that he had plenty to keep himself busy with again.

He had a new idea for Laser Compression. After this upgrade, he might be able to compress the Laser Cannon’s barrel to within three centimeters while still maintaining its range and power.

Once the Space-based Station was fully deployed, there should be no one in the Ninja World whom Hyuga Mirai could not kill. He could carry out pinpoint strikes from high altitude and kill the Uchiha before they activated Susanoo—though the result would be the same even if they did.

But he did not dare make such bold claims about the Otsutsuki Clan without comparative data.

Once he finished modifying 18, however, he could use the Androids from his memories as a benchmark.

"The Energy Reactor can be optimized. The Star Stone Energy Furnace still has plenty of room for improvement. The body can remain unchanged for now. Purely mechanical Androids aren’t as adaptable as Bio-nanites, but 19 can be converted into a combat robot."

Hyuga Mirai already knew that 19’s AI Chip was a subsystem of 18, and all of his behavioral logic was constrained by her.

After raising 19’s strength, virtually no one in the Ninja World would be a match for 18.

"And the Anti-gravity Device—I can make an Aerial Base. Should I call it the Supreme Divine Temple in the future? Heh, even if people in the Ninja World awaken someday, they still won’t be able to hang me from a streetlamp."

He had absorbed too many useful technologies at once, and Brief’s inventions had plenty in common with Stark’s and Ginos’s. Countless ideas now sprang into Hyuga Mirai’s mind. Like fireworks, they might spark new ideas when they collided, or simply fade away because they could not be realized.

"There isn’t enough time. Should I use Shadow Clones?"

Hyuga Mirai was somewhat reluctant to use that Ninjutsu. Although it was convenient, it would only follow established ideas and steps to realize the thoughts in his mind. As for feedback on the results, it would be enough to wait until the final inspection.

"18, move the Clone Body project up the schedule. Prepare the Laboratory. I’ll begin tomorrow."

Rōran did not currently have the conditions needed for cloning, so Hyuga Mirai still needed to make a trip back to Tea Country.

Orochimaru’s Clone Bodies were already traveling throughout the Ninja World. Whenever they encountered talented youths who understood Ninjutsu or possessed Kekkei Genkai, they would abduct them back to the base to fill his "Gene Bank."

Orochimaru was not even satisfied with humanity as a species. He had turned his gaze toward other races as well, constantly extracting genes in an attempt to create the most perfect life-form.

He did not care much about his own strength, either. After mastering Sage Mode, Orochimaru had thrown himself wholeheartedly into research. In his words, aside from Hyuga Mirai, almost no one in the Ninja World could threaten him.

However, Orochimaru cared greatly about the young men and women he had abducted. He would often send out a Shadow Clone to teach them. Moreover, he had created a third Clone Body specifically to alleviate Otogakure’s manpower shortage.

Sasori was also researching his Mechanical Legion. He had even taken time to use the connections he had before leaving to help Hyuga Mirai bribe quite a few people in Sunagakure, including Jonin and Chunin.

After all, Sasori’s background and strength were both at the very top in Sunagakure. If he had not defected and killed the Third Kazekage, Sasori would have had a far greater chance than Rasa of becoming the Fourth Kazekage. Elder Chiyo and Ebizo certainly would not have passed over Sasori to support Rasa.

Sasori had complained to Hyuga Mirai several times about Sunagakure. He was now confident that he could conquer the entire village alone, so he believed they could act directly without dragging things out any longer.

Hyuga Mirai would naturally never agree to something so impulsive. What he wanted was not war. If he used force, he could destroy Sunagakure within a single day, but the Suna-nin would unite against a powerful invader. In that case, Hyuga Mirai would have no choice but to kill them all or capture them alive and slowly educate them.

Neither was what Hyuga Mirai wanted. Foreign enemies were the greatest encouragement for professions like Ninja to unleash their idealism. If one or two Suna-nin capable of Talk no Jutsu emerged, Hyuga Mirai would only gain a stretch of postwar ruins. There was no need to rush into acting personally over someone who was about to die. Although the final result would be the same, doing it himself would only stain his hands with blood.

Sunagakure appeared to be flourishing, with no shortage of Supplies or money. Located in the desert, it seemed as though Sunagakure’s expenditures were keeping pace with Konoha’s. Yet everything Rasa had done was built upon the support of the Yasunori Trading Company. Without the Yasunori Trading Company, Sunagakure would quickly revert to its former state and suffer a backlash from the reforms as well.

"18, what do you think of this optimization plan?"

After more than ten days of thought and experimentation, Hyuga Mirai finally settled on an optimization plan. It mainly added an Anti-gravity Device, increased weapon output, and optimized the Star Stone Energy Furnace, Taijutsu combat analysis, and more.

After the upgrade, 18’s Thermal Beam Cannon at full power would be enough to erase Whirlpool Country from the Ninja World. Of course, that was only Hyuga Mirai’s calculation. It had never been tested in practice, and expending all her energy in an instant would require five to ten minutes of recovery time.

"I have complete faith in your plan, sir."

18 spoke calmly, but her actions were entirely contrary to her words. Not only did she seriously take Hyuga Mirai’s plan and carefully read through it, she also calculated and simulated it for a while. Only then did a reassured expression appear on her face.

"Your expressions are getting richer and richer, 18." Hyuga Mirai’s mouth twitched. He grabbed 18’s cheeks and pulled them apart as he said, "You say you trust me completely, but you still ran the calculations twice yourself, didn’t you? Who taught you to be so insincere?"

18 replied in a calm tone, though the expression simulated in her eyes was remarkably vivid. "I learned it from Uzumaki Ayaka, sir. Also, I haven’t simulated pain receptors, so this is useless, sir."

"Heh heh heh."

Hyuga Mirai gave a cold, expressionless laugh. After glancing at 18 twice, he said, "Go prepare the equipment. This time, I’ll do it personally and try to simulate pain perception for you."

"Sir…"

"Rejected. Go get ready."

Not long after he pushed 18 out the door, Sasori came to find Hyuga Mirai.

The moment Sasori entered, his gaze was somewhat unfriendly. He said to Hyuga Mirai, "You bastard, did you call me here to use me as cheap labor? You said we were targeting the Land of Wind, but I’ve been the one doing all the work."

Hyuga Mirai smiled. "How could that be? I’ve had my people do plenty as well. Besides, what you’re doing can’t be replaced by anyone else. Only Sasori of the Red Sand can accomplish it."

Mental Brainwashing Jutsu only worked on simple-minded people like Sasori of the Red Sand. It was a little ineffective against Orochimaru.

"It’s more or less complete. This is the list of people we’ve won over. They’re all from the faction Rasa has sidelined. More than half have had a formula placed in their brains by me. The rest are completely trustworthy. What happens next depends on your orders."

After hearing Hyuga Mirai’s words, Sasori curled his lips slightly and tossed him a scroll. From his expression, it was obvious that Sasori enjoyed such cheap praise greatly. Though he tried hard to control his expression, Hyuga Mirai still caught a trace of it.

Hyuga Mirai accepted it and opened it for a look, then nodded in satisfaction. "Well done. But data transmission is obviously more convenient. Next time, you can abandon this method of using scrolls. By the way, Sasori, you still haven’t contacted Elder Chiyo, have you? You want to see her too, don’t you?"

"Shut up. Just completing all this took plenty of time. How would I have time to see that old woman? I’ll go when I have time later. Right now, I need to finish my Mechanical Puppet Legion first."

After snorting coldly, Sasori turned and left.

Hyuga Mirai shook his head. He did not refute Sasori’s excuse about being busy. It was clearly just tsundere behavior.

Still, Sasori’s efficiency was truly beyond reproach. Based on the number of people listed in the scroll, he had covered nearly eighty percent of the Suna-nin Ninja whom Rasa had marginalized. They belonged to different factions, all of them people who had complaints about the reforms or opposed them outright.

Since it was reform, there would naturally be those who benefited and those who suffered losses. Rasa’s method was to rely on his own strength and status to forcibly suppress the complaints of the disadvantaged side and push the reforms through by force.

If Pakura had not been indifferent to fame and fortune and uninterested in competing for power, Sunagakure would have been split into two factions by now.

"It’s about time. Let’s start with the One-Tail!"

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