Chapter 10: Snatching a Puppet
Chapter 10: Snatching a Puppet
At this moment, there was only one thought left in Kuroto’s mind, ‘it was really over this time’.
With the experience level of a strong ninja at the level of someone like Sasori, once the unexpected effect is lost, it will be extremely difficult to succeed in a sneak attack the second time. And fighting against Sasori, even if it is only a trivial scratch, Kuroto will lose his fighting ability due to poisoning, and there is no freakin way he wouldn’t be getting injured if he fought against Sasori.
Therefore, the failure of this sneak attack meant that the victory or defeat has already been decided for Kuroto.
In the very instant, the Sandaime Kazekage’s puppet was attracted by the Rein Wheel Pull and was held by Kuroto through the neck with one hand, so it lost the control of the magnetic Dun due to being disconnected with the Chakra strings, the iron spears in the air collapsed and turned into black iron sand that scattered all over.
Looking at the Sandaime Kazekage’s puppet held by Kuroto, from a distance, Sasori’s face was extremely red from embarrassment. At this moment, he was both surprised and suspicious, and even a little frustrated.
Although Kuroto’s heart was a little frustrated due to messing up the one opportunity he had of successfully repelling Sasori, but Kuroto still maintained his calm façade on the outside, and the slightest anger was not visible on his face.
In this way, for a while, the two people who were both a little cautious of the other side confronted each other silently.
This kind of confrontation made Kuroto, who was lacking confidence in his chances of survival, made even more nervous, and at this moment, he was surprised to find that the Chakra in his body was constantly rushing to the Sandaime Kazekage’s puppet he was holding.
The abnormal change protruded, Kuroto still did not dare to show any signs on his face, staring coldly at the opposite Sasori.
Feeling the chakra in his body pouring more and more into the Sandaime KazeKage’s puppet, Kuroto’s courage became more and more empty, he was thinking that he had finally awakened the Tenseigan with such difficulty, and if he lost his life in the first battle his heart can’t accept this result.
When about two-thirds of the Chakra in the body poured into KazeKage’s Puppet, the puppets held by Kuroto suddenly twitched disorderly.
With the twitching of the puppets, the iron sand that had previously been scattered out of control also floated.
Sasori was startled when he saw this and shouted: “Damn, you actually know how to use puppetry? Who are you? Why were you here to meet with the assassination team of the Sand Village?”
“Sand Village’s assassination team!?”
Listening to the Sasori’s question, Kuroto’s heart stunned.
The identities of the corpses that fell beside the Sasori before were indeed Sand Villages’ assassination squad! This undoubtedly means that Sand Village has also participated in Konoha’s cleansing operations, and it also means that all the senior leaders of Konoha have acquiesced to this cleaning.
But that’s not something he can deal with right now!
Suppressing the resentment for the decision-making body of Konoha in his heart, Kuroto brought his attention back to the current fight.
After the initial ignorance, he now understood why the KazeKage’s puppet was suddenly activated by him.
According to the vague memory of previous lives, the Tenseiagn, like the Rinnegan, has a similar great ability, which is to control puppets.
The method for the Rinnegan to control the puppets is using the black stick. Pain’s six paths are all puppets under the control of Nagato’s Rinnegan, while the method of the Tenseiagn to control a puppet is to inject the Tenseigan chakra. Once a sufficient amount of the Tenseigan chakra is injected, It can even activate souls within the puppets, allowing them to acquire a certain degree of intelligence and autonomy.
In Kuroto’s impression, Otsutsuki Toneri relied on this kind of puppet, and the main body did not show up in the Ninja World initially, so he easily defeated the Hyuga Patriarch: Hiashi Hyuga who was close to the Kage level, and sneaked out of the village taking away Hyuga Hanabi.
After comprehending this point, Kuroto had a thought. Without the control of the Chakra line, under Kuroto thoughts, the puppet of KazeKage slowly floated, posing an attacking posture to the opposite Sasori, as if guarding Kuroto from the front.
At this moment, Kuroto said indifferently, “I am not interested in getting rid of Sand’s missing-nin. We don’t need to fight anymore.”
Sasori’s face was now sullen and fuming with rage hearing Kuroto’s words: “Taking away my beloved collection, do you think I will let you go?”
Even Sasori also faintly felt threatened, in the face of these never seen before mysterious methods, that Kuroto used to control the KazeKage puppet. At this moment, he had listed Kuroto as a powerful enemy who could threaten his life.
Kuroto smiled: “This puppet retains most of its combat power. I have to say that you are indeed a genius in making puppets.”
This smile is not Kuroto’s pretentious gesture, but he really felt happy at this moment, because he has Sandaime KazeKage’s puppet under his control, therefore he has the flying ability in his hands, so it is up to him whether to stay and fight or just run away.
And the reason why he didn’t leave the battlefield immediately and continued to have a word with Sasori was simply to buy time to think of a method to hide his identity to avoid future trouble from Sasori’s pursuit of revenge.
After all, Kuroto doesn’t want someone like Sasori to be after him all the time, Kuroto knows that if he displayed a little carelessness going against Sasori he will definitely lose his life, so he doesn’t want Sasori to be coming after him.
“You can control the puppet without using the chakra thread, how did you do it?” After a pause, Sasori suddenly tilted his head and smiled evilly: “Forget it, when I catch you, everything will be clear!”
After that, Sasori took out a red scroll.
With Sasori’s soft words, the scroll was suddenly thrown, and a group of figures flew out of the scroll, floating around him.
These figures are all puppets wearing red cloaks. There are as many as ten puppets. They have different shapes, some carried knives, some with swords, and some with huge shurikens.
Sasori smiled and said: “Red Secret Skill, Performance of Ten Puppets!”
Looking at the scene in front of him, Kuroto said secretly: “It seems that Sasori at this time has not yet mastered ‘Performance of a Hundred Puppets’, but even the ‘Performance of Ten Puppets’ is not something I can deal with!”
Wouch… wouch… wouch…
Amidst the shaking of the puppets, the ten red robe puppets pounced on Kuroto.
Kuroto’s brow furrowed, and he raised his hand again to make a Rein Wheel Push.
After losing two-thirds of the Chakra, he actually had no combat effectiveness, so he used the Rein Wheel Push to bounce off the ten red robe puppets that had fallen on him, and immediately jumped on KazeKage’s puppet.
In an instant, the iron sand in the sky turned into a pair of iron wings, and KazeKage’s puppet flew away with Kuroto towards the corpse of Mitsui at the far end.
Sasori who was repelled away with the puppets, secretly cursed: “Damn it, this is another unknown technique!”
Sasori feels a headache thinking about the strange and unknown techniques that can be performed at will without the need for the seal, but through this confrontation, he also keenly perceives that the effective range of the strange Push and Pull technique is only about 15 meters, so he immediately changed the engaging strategy, and a puppet was manipulated to launch a long-range throwing attack on Kuroto.
However, KazeKage’s puppet who was under Kuroto’s control hardy needed Kuroto’s command to use Magnet Dun and blocked all the incoming Kunai and Shuriken attacks.
Sasori who was chasing after Kuroto saw this had his face sinking, and he felt as if he was slapped in the face by his masterpiece.
Soon, under the control of the Sasori, all the throwing weapons of the ten red-robed puppets were replaced with a thousand bones that had been hardened with poison.
Since Magnetic Dun can’t control non-metals, so KazeKage Puppet changed part of the iron sand into a hemispherical shaped shield that protected Kuroto from behind.
Tink… ding…
For some time, the sound of Kunai and Shuriken, hitting the iron sand ball wall continued coming as Kuroto was making his escape…
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