This puppeteer is a bit... well...

Chapter 34: Starting with Rasengan Smash in the Face

The silver-haired girl curled up, her hands crossed in front of her, and her exposed skin was visibly stained with a metallic black.

The chakra cannons and kunai fired by the knight puppet struck it, producing a metallic clanging sound, but they couldn't damage it in the slightest.

"Snapped!"

With her feet touching the ground, the silver-haired girl landed amidst a multitude of puppets.

An Lushan manipulated the puppets, wielding weapons and attacking the girl in the middle.

But then she squatted down, her left hand on the ground, her right fist raised, and then she slammed it down onto the ground.

"Boom!!!"

With a deafening roar, the earth cracked open, forming a spider web-like pattern, before collapsing and turning into a crater several meters deep.

The violent force spread out, blowing away the rushing puppets, and even An Lushan, who was directing and controlling them from afar, was blown away.

Amidst the smoke and dust.

The mechanical bird suddenly flew out and slammed into An Lushan, sending him flying like a cannonball and crashing hard into a distant tower.

Yin bent her legs and pushed off the ground.

The earth suddenly split open, and the person was launched into the sky like a cannonball, heading straight for the man embedded in the tower wall.

"Are you kidding me!"

An Lushan roared and his body emanated purple chakra.

The cracks on its body caused by the impact healed rapidly, then it suddenly expanded, bursting open its clothes and transforming into a giant mantis puppet.

Before he could even make a move, Silver's fist struck, the violent force causing the mantis puppet to smash through the wall, rush inside, and then fly out from the other end.

Ryuji, piloting a mechanical bird, flew in from the other side, the six-barreled Gatling gun protruding from its beak gathering scorching chakra.

Goodbye!

Ryuji waved to the flying mantis, and a basketball-sized orange fireball shot out.

"Bang!"

The fireball collided with the mantis in mid-air, unleashing an energy ball tens of meters in diameter, which then contracted and exploded.

"boom!"

Flames shot skyward, and scorching waves of air rolled and swept in all directions.

"Is he/she dead?"

Sarah grabbed Ryuji's shoulders and stood up, watching the dazzling fireworks.

Ryuji, however, had a solemn expression as he stared at the subtle fluctuations in space.

An Lushan was a rogue ninja from Sunagakure known as "Hyakuzu," who traveled from a world more than twenty years in the future through the Dragon Vein.

According to the original historical trajectory, he would cause the dragon vein to erupt by self-destructing, resulting in the Fourth Hokage adding another layer of space-time attribute seal to the original seal of Loulan.

However, An Lushan is now dead.

The dragon veins will not erupt, the Fourth Hokage and others will not notice An Lushan's conspiracy and come to investigate, and no additional seal will be added to the existing seal.

In this way, it would be impossible to travel through.

But An Lushan had already traveled through time.

A contradiction has arisen in spacetime, necessitating correction or the splitting of the world, creating parallel lines.

"They're here."

The space suddenly began to vibrate violently, then abruptly calmed down.

The surrounding environment has changed.

I was still in Loulan, but I was no longer in the same spot, and Sarah was nowhere to be found.

Night turned into day, the sky was filled with released balloons, and the Loulan people, who should have collapsed, were still singing and dancing on the ground.

That seems to be the case, but Ryuji can't be sure.

The reason he couldn't be sure was because he had an extra memory in his mind: a constantly rotating and compressing chakra dumpling was summoning towards his face.

The person holding the dumpling was a bright-haired, energetic young man in an orange tracksuit.

I'm fucking idiot!

The sudden turn of events made Ryuji instinctively want to curse, but his experience as a ninja, gained from long-term missions, allowed him to suppress the urge to swear.

It was too late to dodge or defend with ninjutsu.

But the metal plate attached to the temple extended outwards, and at the critical moment, the parts of this exoskeleton armor combined to form a thin and transparent mask.

"Rasengan!"

With a booming voice, a chakra dumpling was smeared onto Ryuji's face.

"Bang"

Long Er spun around and flew out, crashing headfirst into a tall tower in the distance.

Through the smoke and dust, he saw the mechanical bird knock Naruto away through the hole, but he didn't think anything of it.

He lay on his back in the pile of rubble, staring blankly at the ceiling.

In search of the energy source to power the mechanical city, a Sand Village ninja named "Ryuji Ayaki" came to Loulan.

Then, just as he was about to kidnap the Queen of Loulan and seize the Dragon Vein, Konoha ninjas who had traveled from another time stopped him.

Driven by his desire for the Uzumaki clan's physique, the Nine-Tails, and Ashura's chakra, Ryuji temporarily abandoned the Queen of Loulan and turned to fight the Konoha ninja who had traveled from another region.

As a result, just when victory was within reach, more Konoha ninjas appeared.

Ryuuji was outnumbered by five, but Naruto found an opening and slammed a Rasengan into his face.

"The Konoha investigation team and Naruto arrived in Roran ahead of time. Is this the trajectory after the time-space correction?" Ryuji stood up, supporting himself on the ground, his shattered mask falling off with a clatter.

He reached out and moved the remaining piece, then came to the hole he had created and looked outside.

Naruto and Minato Namikaze have disappeared without a trace. The mechanical bird is being chased by the knight puppets, and once again, an ace aerial battle unfolds in the towering Loulan.

"This is probably the worst-case scenario."

Ryuji's most anticipated development is the world splitting apart and developing into parallel storylines.

This way, they can completely break away from the original Naruto world.

However, spacetime correction is also acceptable.

However, there are many possible development trajectories after the time-space correction, such as the centipede never actually traveling here.

But in the end, it turned into a Rasengan being thrown at his face right at the start... With Ryuji's reaction and the amplification from his exoskeleton, he could have easily dodged it.

But given the sudden shift to that situation, he had no choice but to accept it head-on.

Why did things develop to this point?

Is it that this world wants to kill itself for causing the time-space contradiction, or is it that the world's darling "Naruto" is being favored?

Ryuji didn't know, but he knew that no matter what happened, what he was going to do would not change.

To seize the Dragon Vein and test whether the world revolves around Naruto.

"I'm being treated as a major villain now. Whether it's Konoha or Centipede, they'll both target me, making it a bit difficult for me to seize the Dragon Vein."

Even disregarding Naruto and Minato's group, the centipede alone would be difficult to deal with.

The reason Long Er was able to resolve the situation so easily was because he had shut down the dragon vein beforehand.

If the dragon veins hadn't been closed, this guy would have unlimited chakra and could regenerate infinitely, greatly increasing the power of his various puppet ninjutsu and making him extremely difficult to deal with.

"I have not seen the sealing formation or the closing process of the trajectory after the spacetime correction, nor have I been able to analyze it through the observation instrument using Hong's body. I need to go back and establish the project first."

"Once you decipher how to use the seal, you can completely control the dragon vein."

Long Er quickly made a decision, once again swapping bodies with Hong, and went to the studio to initiate a project to analyze the sealing formation.

(End of this chapter)