(Ai chan, I want to make a secret base inside konoha.) Shinichi spoke to Ai.
(Why not just take over Danzo's root? You can get rid of Danzo who is a heinous criminal that hides behind the pretense of greater good, just replace Danzo with your clone and store all his memories into a magic stone so your clone has access to memories as needed.) Ai spoke.
Shinichi cast his [Clone] skill to make 20 clones and sent his clones that transformed into adults and left.
(Shinichi sama, isn't 20 clones an overkill? Just one is enough, as it has the same powers as you) Ai asked
(If I have idle power, then I should always spend it to quickly handle things. I can make ten thousand clones with the same power as me, so 20 is just less than 1%.) Shinichi replied.
"Even one of your clones can destroy the whole Konoha and won't even get a scratch) Ai spoke.
(Sending 20 clones is cool!) Shinichi replied.
(Shinichi sama, we need to deal with Orochimaru too, he is also a criminal) Ai suggested.
(I will just take the most precious thing from him and see his misery as he did to others, I will take away his knowledge and lower his IQ so he wants to do things that he is not capable of.) Shinichi spoke his plan.
(Shinichi sama, you are truly a devil, but you are also amazing.) Ai spoke
(Getting praised by my own skill? Does that make me a narcissist? Shinichi wondered.
(I am part of your consciousness, but I have a different personality, and my thought process works like that of a female, as you had chosen female when you got the skill [Mana Mind], so I am a different person but also the same.) Ai replied.
Shinichi's clones entered Danzo's base while using [Stealth] skill and located him, put Danzo to sleep with [Sleep], backed up all his memories into a magic stone, killed Danzo, and got rid of the corpse, and one of the clones transformed using [Transform] skill to take Danzo's place.
Then nineteen clones went to Orochimaru, put him to sleep, took all his memories related to knowledge into a magic stone, and erased memories from his head. The clones also reduced his short term memory limit so he could only keep two to three things in his head and made other changes in his brain using magic to make him not get excited for knowledge and experiments, and then the clones disappeared with a poof when everything got done.
The next day Orochimaru woke up, and he did not know anything that happened yesterday.
As soon as he realized that he was not able to think properly, not able to calculate things in his mind, and did not know what to do, he was not able to recall any knowledge, but he knew that he had acquired knowledge in the past according to his memories. He grabbed a technical book about human anatomy and started reading, but as he read one paragraph, he could not understand a thing, got bored, and threw the book.
Orochimaru: What the hell is happening with me? What is wrong with me? Did I hit my head in my sleep or something?
Orochimaru felt so miserable that he wanted to kill himself, but he also could not be able to decide that properly. His gaze went to a book, Icha Icha Tactics, that Jiraiya had sent him. Even the title that sounded foolish to him in the past seemed interesting now, he grabbed the book and started reading it, and he got lost in reading the book and forgot all the misery.