The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 30 Toy Story

It is now mid-September, the third week after school started.

At this time, the heated discussion caused by the puppetry class has actually gradually subsided.

However, the appearance of new toys and chakra carving knives was like a depth charge, shocking the entire ninja school again.

As a result, the puppetry class easily regained the top spot in the Ninja School's hot topic.

By the way, the second place is whether Mr. Kimura has a girlfriend...

However, compared with new toys, the Chakra Knife did not attract much attention.

Because in the ninja world, keeping ninjutsu secret is a matter of course.

So even though Hideki didn't instruct them, the apprentices in the workshop reached a consensus not to reveal the specific information of the chakra carving knife to other students.

Therefore, other students thought that Chakra carving was just a technique used for handicrafts and did not take it too seriously.

On the contrary, the new toys quickly became popular throughout the school thanks to the extensive promotion of the workshop apprentices.

"Toys? We are not three or four-year-old kids anymore. How could we still like playing with toys?"

Many little kids scoffed at this at first.

But when they saw the new toys produced by the workshop with their own eyes, they were all instantly attracted to them and exclaimed how delicious they were.

Don't blame them for being weak-willed.

After all, the first batch of toys launched by Hideki are classics that have stood the test of time.

For these little kids who have only played with toy kunai and toy shurikens at most, it will naturally form a dimensionality reduction attack.

Not to mention that this batch of toys has been carefully selected by Xiushu, covering the needs of almost all types of children.

For example, yo-yo is loved by children of big ninja clans such as the Uchiha clan because of its high operability and convenience for showing off skills.

For ordinary boys, the gyroscope battle, which is easy to start and exciting, is also a good choice.

If the little girls don't like showing off or fighting, then the cute toy wood carvings will definitely satisfy them.

Although the prototypes of the wood carvings are all heroes of Konoha's past, this does not prevent the girls from using them to perform various house-playing scenes.

However, according to screenwriter and director Yuhi Kurenai, due to the severe shortage of female woodcarvers, they could only let some male woodcarvers perform cross-dressing roles.

As a special guest, Hideki saw the wood-carved version of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara in a love scene...

Because he was worried that Madara-sama would come and say some heartfelt words to him one day, Hideki made a bunch of wood sculptures of Uzumaki Mito overnight.

However, the scenes of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama being affectionate with each other while playing house do not seem to have completely disappeared.

This forced Hideki to ponder whether he had accidentally awakened some strange habit in these little girls...

——Even if the toys above are not to your liking, there are still educational toys suitable for all ages to choose from, which will definitely make everyone want to play with them.

In particular, the Rubik's Cube that Hideki strongly recommended was loved by those smart students, especially the children of the Nara family.

Besides, it’s true that these kids are really smart and talented.

In less than two days, they had already summarized the general formula for solving the 3x3 Rubik's Cube.

So kids like Yuhi Kurenai, who are both inexperienced and love to play, can finally experience the joy of playing with the Rubik's Cube.

However, Hideki has a love-hate relationship with these Rubik's Cube scientists.

Although their research helped to promote the Rubik's Cube, it also turned the toy from an intellectual toy into a toy for memorizing formulas and competing in hand speed, thus losing Hideki's original intention of allowing everyone to use it to exercise their spatial thinking ability.

In order to prevent them from continuing to harm other educational toys, Hideki decided to reward them with a pocket puppet beast as bait and gave them a very interesting Rubik's Cube problem:

How many steps are needed to restore a randomly scrambled Rubik's Cube?

This question doesn't seem difficult at first glance, and there is a pocket puppet beast as a prize.

So in addition to these smart people who started to study this problem day and night, many other students and even teachers also participated in this prize-winning guessing game.

Hideki can only express his deepest sympathy for this.

Because in his previous life, scientists had conducted decades of research on this issue, but had not reached a clear conclusion.

It was not until the development of science and technology that scientists, with the help of computers, finally found the number of God that had troubled Rubik's Cube enthusiasts for many years - 20. And if the computing resources they used were converted into ordinary home computers, it would take a full years to get the answer...

However, Hideki has great confidence in the intelligence of the Nara clan's children and believes that they should be able to solve this problem before Boruto begins.

Although this little episode was resolved, two days later, Hideki faced another problem that made him even more amused...

That was the magic of the new toy, which seemed even more exaggerated than he had expected.

This is naturally a great thing for a workshop that has not yet officially opened, but it is not an interesting thing for the Ninja School.

Because of everyone's enthusiasm for toys, it has begun to affect the normal teaching order.

Although the children are precocious, they are still just a group of kids under ten years old, and we cannot demand too much from their self-control.

I didn’t like to play before, simply because there was really nothing fun to do. It was not even as interesting as practicing.

But now with these toys as examples, the little ninjas' enthusiasm for learning has suddenly dropped to a lower level.

In order to deal with this situation, the Ninja School quickly formulated a new rule:
Students are strictly prohibited from bringing toys into the campus. If found, their toys will be confiscated!
As the instigator, Hideki was invited to the Hokage's office for tea again.

"Pocket puppet beast, puppet workshop, work-study program, and now there's this new toy..."

"Hideki, Hideki, why are you so troublesome?"

In the Hokage's office, the Sandaime sighed helplessly.

Hideki, on the other hand, stood obediently in front of the desk, with his head bowed, looking willing to learn.

But he was secretly complaining in his heart:

"Before you say that, Sandaime, please put down the Rubik's Cube in your hand..."

It seems that anyone who has a little confidence in his IQ will find it difficult to escape the temptation of the Rubik's Cube.

However, the Sandaime is indeed quite talented in this area.

He had just taken a Rubik's Cube from Hideki, and he successfully restored it in a short while. He is worthy of being called Dr. Ninja.

Resisting the urge to try again, the Sandaime put the Rubik's Cube into the drawer, then ignored Hideki's strange look and began to speak earnestly:

"Hideki, I know you invented these toys to enrich the entertainment activities for children so that they can combine work and rest."

"This is indeed a good intention, but we still have to be careful about the degree."

Although Hideki has not told many people the reason for combining work and rest.

But with the spontaneous promotion of Lin and Hong who heard of this idea, it has gradually become widely known.

The Sandaime had naturally heard about it as well, and he quite agreed with it.

In his spare time, he would occasionally use a telescope to inspect the girls' bathhouse, practicing the principle of combining work and rest.

He even sympathized with the martial arts master who proposed this theory...

So he didn't blame Hideki too much for the school incident, but just sighed and said:
"Everyone's hearts are set on playing wild now, and it may not be easy to calm down."

"Hideki, do you have any solution?"

As the culprit, Hideki naturally had to give some advice to the Sandaime.

He first said in a comforting tone:
"Hokage-sama, I actually don't think this problem is as serious as you think."

"Children just keep suppressing themselves for too long, so they play out of revenge."

"After a while, when they get tired of playing, they will naturally stop playing..."

This was indeed Hideki's true thought. He felt that the Sandaime and the others were making a big fuss out of nothing.

But it is obvious that this plan cannot satisfy the Third Generation.

So Hideki quickly added:
"Of course, if you want to speed up the process, I actually have a way."

"And if used properly, it might even turn a bad thing into a good thing..."

(End of this chapter)