The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 2 Lesson Preparation
After the opening ceremony, the Sandaime left the school quickly. It seemed that he was very busy with work.

The class teachers took their students back to the classroom to start the new semester.

After Hideki said goodbye to Inuzuka Jape, he returned to his office.

His office is located on the first floor of the teaching building. Although the space is not large, it has been cleaned very cleanly, which saves him a lot of effort.

After all, Hideki has decided to make some major adjustments to the teaching plan in order to deal with the crisis of puppetry's bad reputation.

In order to catch up with his first class tomorrow, he has to start working now.

Hideki first sat in his seat and took out a notebook to read.

It records the teaching plan he had previously formulated, and the content mainly refers to the half of the puppetry textbook of Sand Village.

However, what Hideki is in charge of is just an elective training course after all, and he cannot ask students to focus most of their time and energy on it like the puppeteer apprentices of Sunagakure.

Therefore, he had already made significant cuts and modifications to the content of the teaching materials and developed a teaching plan suitable for the physique of the Konoha babies.

Puppetry can be roughly divided into two parts: puppet making and puppet manipulation.

Considering class time and practicality, Xiushu decided to make puppet manipulation the main content of the course.

As for the puppet-making part, since it requires learning a lot of professional knowledge and the results are slow, Hideki plans to treat it as an advanced content and do it after selecting talented students.

It is enough for ordinary students to master how to make and repair some simple ninja tools.

Even in terms of puppet control, Hideki actually only intends to teach the most basic parts.

Because he was once a ninja school student, he never hesitated to underestimate the students with the worst intentions.

Just talking about the most basic chakra line manufacturing technology in puppet control, it is probably enough to make students who haven't even learned how to climb trees or walk on water suffer.

Therefore, in Hideki's vision, students would be thankful if they could learn how to create and briefly maintain chakra lines by the end of the semester, and use them to trigger some simple mechanisms.

In this way, students will have an additional good means of fighting the enemy, and as the result of the first semester of the puppetry course, it should satisfy all parties.

——Of course, the premise of all this is that the course can proceed smoothly...

Now Hideki has realized that people's prejudice against puppetry is more serious than he thought, and it may not be so easy to achieve this teaching goal.

You know, learning puppetry itself is very boring.

If students still have prejudices against puppetry, they will not be able to persist.

That's why Hideki decided to use an entertaining teaching method, hoping to ignite the children's passion for learning puppetry.

"The key lies in the way of practicing chakra lines..."

Hideki stroked his chin and pondered for a long time before he gradually sorted out his thoughts.

"We must make it as novel and interesting as possible without reducing the efficiency of cultivation."

"It would be best if it is so interesting that students are willing to practice on their own even outside of class, so as to make up for the lack of class time."

Hideki felt that he had finally caught a glimpse of inspiration, and quickly took out another tattered notebook from his pocket and opened it.

This notebook records information about the ninja tools and puppets he has invented over the years, as well as ideas that he has not yet had time to realize.

Hideki thought that perhaps the practice of chakra lines could be made more interesting by transforming one of the inventions into a teaching aid to assist in practice.

"It must be able to fully train everyone's ability to control chakra lines, and it must be interesting enough. It would be best if it could be used in actual combat..."

Hideki muttered to himself as he flipped through his notes.

But after looking through it for a long time, he still couldn't find the ninja tool that suited his taste.

It was not until he almost reached the beginning of the notes that his eyes rested on one of the pages.

"Mini-Puppetmon 1.0... I really miss it."

Hideki said with a hint of emotion.

It turns out that Hideki was born with an ordinary background and was born with a limited amount of chakra, so in order to reduce consumption, he decided to go the route of a small puppet after initially mastering the puppet technique.

This small puppet beast 1.0 was the first result that he spent a lot of time creating.

Because its main purpose is reconnaissance and luring the enemy, its appearance is generally chosen to be various cute little animals.

Moreover, Hideki spent a lot of effort on materials and manipulation to make them look lifelike.

However, due to its small size and Hideki's limited puppet-making skills at the time, this type of puppet beast could only be equipped with some small mechanisms and hidden weapons inside, and its lethality was not high.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, Hideki could only prepare himself to treat them as disposable ninja tools, and reluctantly stuffed a lot of detonating talismans inside them...

Therefore, he nicknamed this 1.0 version of the small puppet beast "Cute to the point of explosion".

It was with this small puppet beast that could explode at any time that Hideki began to emerge on the battlefield.

However, the price he paid was that he was very hated during that time, and even attracted the resentment of many small animals.

Because after he succeeded repeatedly, the ninjas from the enemy village, who were paranoid, would always ruthlessly use AOE ninjutsu to attack all the cats and dogs within their field of vision...

Since even real ninjas find it hard to resist the temptation of small puppet beasts, using them as teaching aids would be a sure win and would definitely be very popular.

Unfortunately, this small puppet beast may not be able to serve as a teaching aid now.

Because with the students' current level, let alone controlling them to come alive, even just making them move simply with chakra lines is difficult to do, and it is difficult to use them for practice.

But this idea was so attractive that Hideki couldn't help but wonder whether it could be further modified to meet the requirements of being a teaching aid.

But it seems impossible to complete the design and transformation before tomorrow's class. "It seems like it's time to use that trick..."

After some thought, Hideki realized that this problem was beyond his ability and decided to resort to the last resort.

——Everyone thought that Hideki’s success came after he got that half of the puppetry textbook, and attributed his success to talent and luck.

However, what they didn't know was that the reason why Hideki was able to learn puppetry by self-study was actually a ninjutsu he created himself...

It is said that during a break during the Second Ninja World War, Hideki accidentally heard a missionary speech given by an old monk in the market.

It’s just that the sect he promoted was a little special, it was actually the legendary Ninja Sect.

Hideki was also surprised at first how someone could know about the Ninja Clan from a thousand years ago.

But on second thought, the legend of the Six Paths Sage has been passed down to this day, and he has even become the existence of the creator god. So it is very likely that some of his diehard followers have passed down the Ninja Sect he founded to this day.

The old man didn't talk about any practical stuff, but just promoted the Ninja Sect to everyone by telling the story of the Six Paths Sage teaching the world.

It's a pity that just like a thousand years ago, what everyone really wants is ninjutsu that can bring them practical benefits, and they have no interest in ninja sects that achieve mutual understanding through chakra.

So the old monk could only leave sadly in the end.

In fact, Hideki did not get any direct benefits from the old monk, but the philosophy of the Ninja Sect still lingered in his mind like the melody of a song whose name he could not remember.

After several days of hard thinking, Hideki finally figured out the problem and came up with a rather bold idea:

"According to the original work, the Six Paths Sage explained the true meaning of chakra in order to connect the spiritual energy of people through chakra, so as to achieve the ultimate peace where people can understand each other without words."

"But the warlike humans eventually failed to live up to the expectations of the Six Paths Sage. They chose to use chakra to connect their own spiritual energy and physical energy, thereby amplifying the chakra in their bodies and converting it into force."

"Then here comes the interesting question..."

"What would happen if I used chakra to connect myself to my own spiritual energy?"

This idea may sound far-fetched. After all, where in the world can one find another "self"?

Indeed, in the laws of most worlds, creating an incarnation with the same thoughts as oneself is a very high-level ability that is not within the reach of mortals.

But what’s interesting is that the ninja world where Hideki lives is exactly an exception.

With the help of magical chakra, one can easily have a second "self" by learning the Shadow Clone Technique of level B difficulty.

In order to verify his guess, Hideki spent almost all his savings to buy a scroll of Shadow Clone Technique from the black market, and then spent several months to learn it.

On the day he learned it, he couldn't wait to start experiments, connecting his own spiritual energy with the spiritual energy of his shadow clone through chakra.

As a result, thirty seconds later, Hideki's head exploded...

Complete book.

——Well, to be precise, Hideki’s shadow clone’s head exploded, and then disappeared in a puff of white smoke.

Although it looked like the experiment had failed, Hideki, after covering his forehead to endure a severe headache, let out a rare and unbridled laugh.

Because this experiment was more successful than he had imagined.

In those short thirty seconds, Hideki found that his mind became clearer and sharper than ever before.

And this sharp thinking also allowed him to instantly figure out the reason.

When people's spiritual energies are connected through chakras, they can communicate without language.

When his spiritual energy and that of his shadow clone were connected through chakra, because they came from the same source, the communication efficiency was terribly high, and a large amount of information could be exchanged in an instant.

This also means that Hideki can use the shadow clone's brain to assist himself in thinking in real time.

To put it in an analogy, it is like a single-core CPU becoming a multi-core CPU, or a single computer becoming a cluster of multiple computers.

The brains of the original body and the shadow clone are closely connected through chakra, the "computing power" is directly doubled, and the thinking speed is naturally greatly improved.

The reason why the shadow clone's head suddenly exploded was because its thinking speed was too fast, which exceeded the load that the shadow clone's brain could bear.

Moreover, in subsequent repeated tests, Hideki discovered that the human brain is different from a CPU that can only perform simple calculations. In the process of thinking about a problem from all angles, it can more easily inspire and capture fleeting inspiration.

It is said that Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

But he actually said something else: That 1% of inspiration is even more important than 99% of sweat.

Therefore, the result of Hideki's experiment was not as simple as making him think faster, but it enabled him, who was originally just an average person, to become a true genius in a short period of time.

So, Hideki Kimura, who had neither a heaven-defying cheat nor amazing talent, finally created a genius cheat for himself more than ten years after he came to the ninja world.

Considering that this technique essentially allows the main body and the shadow clone to have a high-speed discussion in the mind through chakra, and the brain needs to work at a crazy high speed when using it, Hideki gave this technique a very appropriate name:

The art of brainstorming.

However, Hideki discovered that in order to achieve real-time communication between the original body and the shadow clone, a large amount of chakra was required every moment.

Limited by the amount of chakra and the endurance of the shadow clones, even after many improvements, Hideki can only be a genius for three minutes at most a day.

But three minutes a day add up to a lot, and gradually bring about earth-shaking changes in Hideki's life in the ninja world.

In fact, Hideki was able to master puppetry through self-study thanks to this ninjutsu.

How to continue to improve the effectiveness of this ninjutsu is also one of the important topics for Hideki to return to Konoha this time.

But before that, his most important task now is to use this technique to find a solution to the problem at hand...

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(End of this chapter)