1 month later...
But today is not only the day of my discharge but also the day of my freedom.
After checking the calendar next to me, I did a quick calculation and realized that 99 days had passed since I arrived in this place , which has earned the right to be called a corner of hell.
That's almost three and a half months.
Since the day Orochimaru told me I had bone cancer, he never wanted to take any body or blood samples from me. And he finally started treating me like a human being because he saw that I wasn't useful to him.
And there is another important thing, as if all this is not enough to make me happy and God really wants to apologize to me.
*door tapping sound*
"Come in!"
The door opened extraordinarily cautiously and he entered cautiously carrying a large tray.
A mountain of hamburgers was lined up on the tray, which I could see from where I was sitting.
Kabuto was hesitant to hand me the tray and I could see it in his eyes.
I can guess the reason for this hesitation.
"You prepared the sauce like I said, didn't you, Kabuto?"
"Look, I don't think that's a good idea, man. Until just this morning you couldn't eat anything but soup, and you remember, whenever you ate anything solid, you couldn't get out of the bathroom. What happened to you now?"
When he answered me, he was still standing there with a mountain of hamburgers, ready to run away at any moment.
[All your punishments have expired]
[Debuff - Bone melt, removed]
[Debuff-Chronic intestinal inflammation, removed]
I was about to answer Kabuto when the pain in my stomach and in my whole body suddenly disappeared. The feeling of a pain that has been there for a long time suddenly disappearing is very similar to the feeling you get at the end of an erection.
I almost lost control for a moment and made a strange noise.
Fortunately I managed to stop myself quickly enough and swallowed the moan that reached the back of my throat with a smile and asked Kabuto to give me my burgers.
"Kabuto, this is not my first time dealing with this kind of illness, okay? I'm sure I've been giving my body the opportunity to heal for long enough and the medicine Orochimaru gave me is quite effective. I think I'm ready now."
Kabuto was still not convinced. Dead fish eyes looked at me and asked if I was sure and I gave the same answer.
"Yes, I'm sure. It's my final decision. Let's do it."
When Kabuto still didn't hand over the tray, I surprised him by suddenly standing up and grabbing the tray.
All this time he must have been used to seeing that even if I got out of bed, I did so uncomfortably and slowly, so that he couldn't really hide the tray from me in his surprise.
"Like I said, Kabuto. I think I'm cured now. I want one last meal with you and then I need Orochimaru's permission to leave."
Kabuto, meanwhile, recovered from his surprise and sat across the bed from me with the Japanese liquor he had brought.
Normally eating in bed is uncomfortable for me, but since I think today will be my last day in this bed, it is no longer my problem.
When Kabuto ate one of the burgers he had prepared with my recipe, I saw the expression on his face that I had long wanted to see as the person who shared the recipe.
Since I have not been able to get out of bed for the past month, I spent this month doing something I have been planning for a long time.
One of my first answers to the question of how to make a living in this world was to open a burger stand here, but the burgers I made always paled in comparison to the other delicacies Konoha is famous for.
Even if I really opened a burger stand, it would probably be nothing more than an ordinary restaurant, and even that only goes so far.
Anyone who separated the two buns of a burger could easily get the full burger recipe. Probably within a week, the burger would be a menu item in every restaurant that sold meat. And that would mean the end of the small restaurant.
Unless there's a sauce that makes my burgers unimitable.
"I really should thank you, Kabuto. You're the one who made it possible for me to make this sauce in the past month... and don't worry, just like I promised, you'll get ten percent of the income from the restaurant I'm going to set up after I return to Konoha."
Kabuto can be a really good friend in some ways. For example, ever since I first told him I was going to open a restaurant and give him a share, he says he doesn't want anything from me, but I insist.
The main reason is that I knew that our friendship would wear out after we broke up, and even then I tried to maintain a bond with him. After all, even if he's not a Madara, he's still a strong enough villainous lead character.
"Why are you so sure Orochimaru will let you go? If you want, I can ask him for you. He won't refuse me because I am his student."
Kabuto put a big bite into his mouth, wiped his hands on his white apron and brought up the same topic again.
"Kabuto, even if you're Orochimaru's student, you can't often ask him for something as big as this, and most importantly, I can handle this on my own. I mean come on, look at me. We both know why Orochimaru is doing all these experiments. I don't have long to live and I've bought Orochimaru a lot of time by teaching you the basics. I don't think I'm worth ten million taels to him anymore and the kind of ransom offer I've prepared is much better than ten million taels."
"Orochimaru can still put you to work in the lab. You have proven yourself a good assistant. Let me ask him for it."
"No, Kabuto. He probably expects you to make such a request. More importantly, people like him don't like the presence of an insufficiently trusted person like me in his lab. And trust me a little. I've prepared a really good offer, and if he doesn't accept it, you can always take your chances."
Kabuto finally stopped talking about it and buried himself in the food again.
Apparently, my hamburger recipe had whetted even someone like Kabuto's appetite.
Wait for me, free and obese fire country. I'm coming!