Hiding in the sand, splitting into many places, starting with Arkham

In Scorpion's home, a round table was set up in the courtyard.

Chiyo, Ebizo, Shimizu, and Scorpion were gathered here, sharing dinner.

"Ah ha, it's been a long time since we've sat together like this to eat, Scorpion."

Chiyo raised her wine glass and drank heartily.

"No, Grandma, a week ago, the night Shimizu came to our house for the second time, we ate at the restaurant owned by Komushi's parents."

Scorpion looked at the cactus juice with sugar in front of him, and said with a cold expression.

Chiyo smiled, her face full of red light.

In private, her personality was very cheerful.

It's just that she spends most of her time on official business, and doesn't have much private time.

"Speaking of which, how is Komushi doing? This old woman remembers that he should be graduating this year, right?"

Chiyo put down her wine glass and muttered curiously to Ebizo.

Komushi was Scorpion's friend when he was young, and also the only peer he could talk to besides Shimizu.

Even after Scorpion's parents died, and Scorpion was immersed in his own world for quite a while, they could still be considered friends.

"Next semester, Komushi will be a student in the graduating class of the Ninja School. A month ago, his family spent money to hire two Chunin to teach him ninjutsu, in order to graduate smoothly."

Ebizo took a sip of wine and said slowly.

Without even the confidence to graduate smoothly, and having to hire someone to guide him, Komushi's talent is obviously not very good, at most it can be considered as average.

"Komushi?"

Shimizu raised an eyebrow.

In the original timeline, because he was dying from poisoning, and because he once said to Scorpion, 'I wish I could be as powerful as the puppets you make,' the person who was eventually turned into a puppet by Scorpion was Komushi.

"Ah, that's Scorpion's friend. If there's a chance in the future, I can introduce you. After all, you're all the same age."

Ebizo stretched out a chakra thread and activated the mechanism on the table, causing the puppet arm in the center of the table to actively move the dishes opposite him to Ebizo's side.

That's what he said, but in reality, he wasn't very optimistic about Komushi making friends with Shimizu, at most they would just nod to each other.

Even Scorpion and Komushi's friendship, Ebizo wasn't particularly optimistic about.

Komushi's talent destined that it wouldn't be easy to become a Chunin in the future. The widening gap in strength, class, and status would inevitably make the relationship between Scorpion and Komushi slowly become distant.

"Alright, everyone's almost finished eating, right? This old woman suggests that it's time for some after-dinner exercise."

Chiyo stood up from her chair with a smile.

"After tonight, it's estimated that it will be difficult to have such free time again. Scorpion, Shimizu, you two come to the back mountain and spar with this old woman."

Saying it was a spar, but it was actually guidance.

"Okay! Teacher Chiyo!"

Shimizu couldn't wait to pick up the sealing scroll beside the chair.

Chiyo is the number one puppeteer in the world. As Chiyo's newly accepted disciple, Shimizu is also looking forward to learning something from Chiyo.

Walking out of the back door of Scorpion's house, there was a bare barren mountain. Besides the brown earth, there were only scattered weeds and scattered shrubs and dead branches.

It was a good place to practice ninjutsu and experiment with puppets.

"Alright, this old woman won't bully you. To deal with two people, I'll only use two puppets. Try your abilities."

A sealing scroll slid out of Chiyo's sleeve, smoke rose, revealing two white-robed human puppets.

The Chikamatsu Ten Puppets!

The masterpiece of the great master of puppetry, Monzaemon. Each of the ten human puppets is a first-class puppet. If the power of the ten puppets can be fully exerted, their strength is no less than that of the Five Kage.

The two puppets that Chiyo revealed both wore masks on their faces.

One was tall, nearly two meters, wearing a bull-headed mask with long horns, and the other was relatively short and slender, only about 1.6 meters tall, with erect yellow hair on the top of its head, wearing a red cat-faced mask.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Another cloud of white smoke dissipated.

Shimizu and Scorpion summoned all their puppets, exchanged a glance, and then launched an attack together!

The two were already teammates, had cooperated on missions, and often sparred with each other. They knew each other's abilities clearly, and cooperated quite well.

"Black Secret Technique: Hand Manipulation Dance!"

"Black Secret Technique: Rapid Performance Method!"

In an instant, six long arms shot out from Black Ant's body, covering Little Boy as he sped towards Chiyo.

Chiyo moved two fingers slightly, and the sides of the bull-faced puppet's body opened, growing four new arms, which grabbed Black Ant's six tentacles together with the original arms.

The red-faced cat-faced puppet ejected long thorns from its arms, and entangled with it at a speed even faster than Little Boy.

Shimizu and Scorpion looked at each other.

In the next second, the Fatty puppet instantly covered Shimizu's body, rushing towards Chiyo like a tank.

Scorpion took out a string of kunai connected by steel wire from his ninja tool bag, avoiding Shimizu and throwing them towards Chiyo.

"Puppet Technique: Manipulating Attacking Blades!"

Puppets can be manipulated by chakra threads, and ninja tools such as kunai and shuriken can naturally be manipulated as well. Kunai manipulated in this way can even compete with the Uchiha clan's Manipulating Shuriken Technique.

Chiyo raised her right hand and pulled slightly.

The bull-faced puppet backhanded Black Ant's arm and swung it like a windmill, smashing all the kunai away, and also throwing Black Ant towards Shimizu.

Scorpion's eyes moved, and he separated Black Ant's body parts with chakra threads, so that it happened to avoid Shimizu.

"Boom!"

Fatty's pneumatic fist was blocked by one of the bull-faced puppet's thick hands.

A circle of air waves oscillated out with the two fists as the core.

Chiyo nodded slightly.

The force sensed by the bull-faced puppet was still very strong. It was only because this bull-faced puppet itself was the top puppet in this world that it could easily take it.

Of course, Chiyo did not fully exert the power of these two puppets.

Otherwise, not to mention Shimizu and Scorpion, even if two ordinary Jonin were replaced, they might not be able to win.

Shimizu swung his other fist and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the bull-faced puppet.

The separated Black Ant was reassembled by Scorpion with chakra threads, and six slender, spiked sub-limbs grew barbs, changing targets and attacking the red-faced cat-faced puppet.

Even if Chiyo only limited the red-faced cat-faced puppet's speed to only a little faster than Little Boy, it still steadily occupied the upper hand.