（ orochimaru, her mind supplies instantly. she knows that he helped in the war. she knows that he was once her master's precious comrade. but she has read the reports on what was found in his laboratory before he was driven from konoha, photographs of vivisected bodies and horrific experiments. people like yamato were the lucky ones. 'lucky'.

and then, she's still furious over what he did to sasuke. the agony of the curse mark, the psychological torture and the years with him that orochimaru took from her and naruto.

no amount of mercy would stay her hand.

she pulls up both her legs, heels balanced on the edge of the seat, wrapping her arms around her knees. the chair is large enough it seems to swallow her up. ）

Often... bad people will do just enough good things to make people doubt themselves when it comes to discerning their intent. It sounds to me like that's what this vampire was doing.

（ danzō, too, comes to mind. ）

As for me... there's a man in my world who wants immortality at any cost. He too fears death. He's hurt or killed many people over the years, many of whom I knew and cared for. He helped us win a war, but I don't think that will ever be enough to make amends for his actions.

（ we don't talk about boruto. ）