The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 54 Grouping and Selection
It's Tuesday again.

The Ninja School was once again filled with an atmosphere of anticipation and excitement today.

The reason is very simple. The little ninjas who were taking the puppetry class had been waiting for several days, and finally the time came for teacher Hideki to distribute the pocket puppet beasts!

Although this made other students feel a little jealous, they were also secretly looking forward to the puppetry classroom that would soon be open to all students to play with puppet beasts.

However, everyone did not forget that the teacher said that students who did not hand in their homework would have their pocket puppet beasts temporarily delayed from being distributed to their groups.

Therefore, most students not only finish their homework early, but also supervise each other.

Therefore, those lazy kids who like to put off their homework until the last minute enjoyed the VIP treatment of completing their homework under the supervision of a dozen classmates.

In order to avoid someone forgetting to bring their homework or not having enough words and getting rejected by the teacher, everyone selected Ebisu, the oldest and most trustworthy one, as the representative to go to each class in advance to check and collect the homework.

Of course, this is what Ebisu said.

Everyone actually thought that this kind of troublesome matter should be left to the nosy Ebisu...

Regardless of the process, when the puppetry class officially started and Hideki walked into the classroom, he saw 108 homework books neatly placed on the podium.

In addition, what caught Hideki's eyes were the little ninjas' big eyes that were like wolves and tigers, exuding greed.

Hideki was surprised and amused by the children's enthusiasm, and couldn't help but sigh:

If only this was the desire for puppetry!
It's a pity that what everyone covets is not the puppetry, but the body of the puppet beast...

He picked up a few homework books and flipped through them, finding nothing wrong. Then he looked at the children's big, expectant eyes, and Hideki couldn't resist. He had to give a French military salute and said,

"Well, originally the grouping thing should have been discussed last."

"But since everyone is looking forward to it, let's divide them into groups first..."

"Long live Teacher Hideki!"

The anticipation exploded instantly, and the cheers of the little ninjas immediately swept towards Hideki.

The cheers lasted for a long time, so much so that Hideki had to shoot a bunch of chakra lines into everyone's ears and whispered:
"If you keep making noise, we'll start the class."

Although his voice was not loud, Hideki's words were clearly transmitted to the ears of the little ninjas through the invisible chakra lines.

As a result, everyone's heated minds suddenly cooled down, and they all quickly covered their mouths and dared not say a word.

The classroom suddenly became quiet, and Hideki nodded with satisfaction.

This technique of transmitting secret sound invented based on the principle of the traditional telephone is indeed very useful and cool every time.

Then Hideki also began to announce the group list he had prepared in advance.

Because there are a total of 108 students, Hideki decided to temporarily divide them into groups of six, with a pocket puppet beast assigned to each group.

In order to balance everyone's fighting power, Hideki first assigned the sixteen most powerful students to different groups as the core.

Then he arranges suitable teammates based on the characteristics of the core players.

For example, Yuhi Kurenai was addicted to playing house with Puppetmon, so Hideki asked her and her playmates to form a drama group.

Nohara Rin has already begun to study the use of chakra lines, and Hideki has assigned her several young girls with good chakra control, hoping that they can learn and promote each other and form a chakra line specialist team.

Ebisu forms an intelligence team with the Four Eyes Corps, who are good at intelligence gathering.

Genjian and students who are good at using ninja tools form a ninja tool team.

In addition to his love for torture instruments, Ibiki also seems to be quite interested in various traps and mechanisms, so Hideki also found a few students who like to set up puppet beast obstacle course to form a trap team with him.

As for Asuma, who was said to be getting along better recently, Hideki specially prepared a few civilian students with strong personalities and a bit of hatred for the rich for him to prevent him from relapsing into his old ways, so that even if he wanted to, he couldn't act like the son of the Hokage...

Finally, there is the kid Obito. Out of a compensatory mentality for the fact that he seemed to have been treated badly before, Hideki found a few good guys to form a group of good guys for him to prevent him from being ostracized again.

Because the groups were mostly divided based on personality and hobbies, everyone except Asuma was quite satisfied with their teammates.

The fact that they can't be in the same group with the person they like still makes some precocious boys and girls sad, such as Obito and Asuma.

Eh, so Asuma is the biggest loser?

Hideki said that he was absolutely fair and just, and did not target his son because the third generation's funding was not smooth.

After the grouping, it was naturally time for the little ninjas to distribute the pocket puppet beasts, which they were most looking forward to.

In order to satisfy everyone's wishes as much as possible, Hideki asked everyone to discuss in groups and choose the puppet beast they most wanted.

A moment later, Hideki received a note from each group regarding the results of the discussion.

But the more I looked at him, the weirder his expression became.

"Out of eighteen groups, fourteen chose Charmander."

"Why didn't I know Charmander was so popular?"

The young ninjas in the audience looked at each other in bewilderment, not expecting that they all had the same idea. As the culprit, Obito whistled with a guilty look on his face, feeling very annoyed.

I'm so stupid, really.

If I had known, I wouldn't have told everyone that Charmander was going to learn how to breathe fire just for the sake of showing off.

After the teacher’s demonstration, everyone already knew that Charmander was not weak, and now they knew that it would learn to breathe fire, so of course they would choose it as the puppet beast of their group.

If I wasn't assigned to Charmander in the end, wouldn't that be like shooting myself in the foot! ?

"To be honest, I'm a little disappointed."

Hideki put the note down and shook his head slightly.

Only after seeing that everyone started to listen attentively did he continue.

"I think everyone chose Charmander as the group's puppet beast after knowing that it would have the ability to breathe fire."

"It's nothing, considering there will be a lot of tests and competitions in groups in the future, it's normal for everyone to make such a choice."

"only……"

At this point, Hideki shook his head and sighed:

"What really disappoints me is why everyone thinks that only Charmander can be upgraded?"

Ok?
The little ninjas' eyes gradually widened, and they seemed to begin to realize what their teacher meant.

Hideki spread his hands and continued:

"You know, for the sake of balance, I made sure that each group's strength was about the same."

"So how could I possibly let Charmander stand out among the puppet beasts?"

Seeing that many young ninjas' eyes had begun to sparkle, obviously they understood what he meant, Hideki no longer kept them in suspense and shook out three puppet balls from his sleeves as usual.

Click, click, click, bang!
After a few transformations, three familiar pocket puppet beasts appeared in front of Hideki.

"Charmander, Sparkle."

As Hideki spoke, Charmander opened its mouth and spurted out a small flame forward.

Oh my god, Charmander can breathe fire!
While the little ninjas were delighted, they couldn't help but complain in their hearts.

Obito was so excited that he stood up and clapped, his hands turned red.

Hideki rolled his eyes at him and continued:

"Squirtle, Bubbles."

In response, Squirtle opened his mouth and spit out a series of bubbles.

“So beautiful.”

Bubbles shining with colorful lights flew all over the students' heads, and the little girls couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

However, the little boys were a little skeptical about the actual effectiveness of this move.

Finally, Hideki said: "Bulbasaur, Leaf Blade."

shhhhhhhh!

As soon as he finished speaking, several leaf-shaped shurikens shot out from the mechanism of the seed on Bulbasaur's back and nailed to the ground not far away.

"Wow……"

The concealed and sharp long-range attacks have attracted the favor of ninja tool enthusiasts like Xuanjian.

"Teacher, please give me a chance. I want to choose again!"

"Yeah, let's discuss it again, it will be quick."

The young ninjas began to request to reselect their puppet beasts.

After seeing that Squirtle and Bulbasaur have their own upgrades, everyone naturally no longer has to stick to Charmander that can breathe fire, but can choose their favorite Puppetmon.

"It's not impossible to choose again."

Hideki clapped his hands to get everyone quiet, and then said in a playful tone:

"But are you sure you want to discuss this now?"

"If you want to know the real essence of Pocket Puppetmon - the Puppetmon Transformation System, I will start to introduce it next..."

(End of this chapter)