Sky Curtain: Short Video Commentary on Konoha Villagers

People from all the different timelines were puzzled by this.

After all, encountering a puppeteer on the battlefield is quite troublesome, not to mention a puppeteer like Sasori of the Red Sand who can kill the Kazekage.

Even if this ability is weak, it can't be that weak, right?

As a unique secret technique of Sunagakure, the Puppet Technique is quite distinctive.

[Control puppets or corpses through chakra threads to fight; hidden weapons and mechanisms can be installed to compensate for weaknesses in close combat.]

However, since Scorpion's death, puppetry has basically stagnated.

[Both the puppet's design and the puppet's manipulation techniques are basically the same as before, even giving off a sense of melancholy.]

Iwagakure Village, Tsuchikage's Office.

Onoki floated in mid-air, arms crossed, a smile on his old face.

"Hmph, Sunagakure's puppet techniques haven't come up with anything new in a long time. I fought against Sunagakure when I was young, and those puppets only used a few moves over and over again. Once you figure out their routines, they don't pose any threat at all."

Huang Tu stood to the side and asked cautiously.

"Father, what if we encounter a puppeteer like Granny Chiyo?"

Onoki glanced at him.

"That old woman Chiyo is indeed quite capable; most people couldn't beat her. But the question is, how many Chiyos are there in Sunagakure?"

Huang Tu thought for a moment and then shook his head.

"One. And she's old."

Onoki nodded: "That's right. The inheritance of puppetry relies too much on individual talent. Once there is a break in the lineage, the entire system will rapidly decline."

[Puppet Technique, as a special type of ninjutsu, has significantly different standards of evaluation compared to traditional ninjutsu.]

Traditional ninjutsu relies on chakra reserves. For example, if two genin and jonin simultaneously unleash a Fire Release technique, it's immediately clear who is stronger.

Puppetry tests the puppeteer's ability to control a large number of puppets simultaneously; the more puppets a puppeteer can control at once, the more skilled they are.

[From Kankuro controlling one puppet with both hands, to Granny Chiyo controlling one with a single finger, to Sasori of the Red Sand appearing and controlling 100 puppets simultaneously.]

Their experiences clearly demonstrate that the number of puppets simultaneously controlled by the Sunagakure ninjas is increasing, proving that Sunagakure's puppeteers are actively upgrading their puppetry techniques.

A training ground in Sunagakure Village.

Several young puppeteers were gathered together, looking at the words on the sky with longing expressions.

"Grandma Chiyo can control ten puppets at the same time?!"

"One finger controls one? Doesn't that mean one hand can control five?!"

"That's incredible!"

An older puppeteer remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking.

"Grandma Chiyo is indeed powerful, but have you ever wondered why she's able to control so much?"

The young people looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Because...she's been practicing for a long time?"

The older puppeteer shook his head and revealed this to the group of younger puppeteers.

"Because she modified her body, one of her arms is a prosthetic, and that thing has undergone special chakra circuit modifications. This allows the chakra lines to extend directly out of her body, and there is another device inside that can reduce the time loss of ninjutsu hand seals."

"So, if you want to become stronger, you have to take care of your body."

Konoha, Hokage's office.

Tsunade rested her hands on the table, looking at the description of puppetry on the screen above.

"Controlling a hundred puppets simultaneously...it sounds incredible, but what's the actual effect?"

"That scorpion could manipulate so many puppets, but in the end, didn't he still die?"

"An ordinary puppeteer can only control two or three puppets at most, even if they practice until they die. A genius puppeteer can control ten, which is already the limit."

"But even at the limit, it seems like that's all there is to it."

"No wonder Tianmu said that puppeteers have declined."

The problem is that both Granny Chiyo and Sasori of the Red Sand are able to control so many puppets simultaneously because they have modified their own bodies.

[Ninjutsu that requires body modification is, to some extent, a forbidden technique in the ninja world.]

Since Gaara became Kazekage, Sunagakure has completely severed ties with its dark past, so these kinds of forbidden techniques naturally won't appear in Sunagakure anymore.

Therefore, the decline of puppetry was inevitable.

Sunagakure Village, Kazekage's office.

Luo Sha was stunned when he saw this line of text.

"What?! Gaara became the Kazekage?!"

He suddenly stood up, his chair sliding back a short distance, his expression incredibly interesting.

"That inherently evil Gaara actually became the Kazekage?!"

After the initial shock, Rasa gradually calmed down.

"If Gaara becomes the Kazekage... what will happen to the village?"

Chiyo did not answer Rasa's mutterings; she knew perfectly well what was going on.

Gaara may have an extreme personality, but he is kind at heart. It's just a pity that he has a biological father like Rasa.

If he becomes the Kazekage, he will most likely do a better job than Rasa.

Luo Sha, however, was always thinking about how to mine gold to supplement the government's finances.

But ultimately, he wasn't very good at being the Wind Guardian.

On the other side, on the streets of Sunagakure.

Two villagers stood under the sky, looking up at the words, their faces filled with disbelief.

"Gaara? That brat who killed so many people? He became the Kazekage?!"

"This...how is this possible? Wasn't he always killing people?"

"Maybe it returned to normal afterward?"

"Normal? How could someone like him be normal?"

Secondly, a puppet is not a robot; it is merely a mindless doll that must be controlled by a sorcerer to fight.

Because human energy is limited, no one can multitask effectively.

Although Sasori of the Red Sand could control 100 puppets simultaneously, his accuracy noticeably decreased.

[In actual combat, he actually fought to a draw against Chiyo's 10 puppets and one Chunin, Sakura. This increase in numbers doesn't really make much difference.]

Therefore, even if a future puppeteer were to ruthlessly modify his body, his strength would not see a significant increase, because that's the bottleneck of puppetry.

[Unless Sunagakure can create a puppet with self-awareness that can fight independently of the puppeteer, like the Impure World Reincarnation.]

But that defeats the purpose of puppetry.

Amegakure Village, the Akatsuki's stronghold.

Deidara looked at the words on the sky and burst into wild laughter.

"Hahahaha! Scorpion! Did you hear that! Your puppetry skills were deemed useless by Tianmu! Hahahaha!"

Scorpion sat in the corner, his puppet body motionless, as if the words on the sky were not about him at all.

Hidan, carrying his scythe, approached Sasori and tilted his head.

"Hey, Scorpion, aren't you angry about being described like that?"

Scorpion's voice came from inside the puppet, flat and devoid of any emotion.

"Puppetry does have its limits, that's a fact."

Deidara's laughter stopped abruptly.

"Aren't you angry?!"

"Why are you angry?"

Sasori was somewhat dismissive of Deidara and Hidan's reactions.

"I have found the path beyond puppetry. The eternal art needs no manipulation."

Deidara paused for two seconds, then suddenly jumped up.

"Eternal art?! What kind of art is that! Explosions are art!"

Scorpion's lips twitched. "Your art has already killed you."

Deidara: "...That, that was just an accident!"

Therefore, the root of puppetry lies in its awkward position.

If a puppeteer refuses to cross moral boundaries, then Granny Chiyo represents the pinnacle a puppeteer can achieve: simultaneously controlling 10 puppets.

[If a puppeteer is willing to break moral boundaries, transform themselves beyond recognition, and forcibly increase the number of puppets they control.]

However, its performance in actual combat won't be much better than the Chiyo, because its accuracy has decreased.

[The Sand Village later realized their weakness and thus created the Magnet Release technique for remotely controlling puppets, eliminating the need to control the chakra threads.]

……

Buddha isn't sinister, is he?