Red sand dust

"It's not for me..."

As he spoke, Daimaru used his psychic technique to summon a stand-in puppet.

"Cultivating it yourself may be a little biased, and it's too late. Just wrap the spiritual seeds in this puppet with a layer of false will and let it think it is my true body..."

"Are you trying to deceive even your own puppet?"

Daimaru's request made Kurama Yakumo feel a little strange. Even though he had a super powerful genjutsu-type blood successor limit, he had never imagined such an operation like Daimaru.

"It's not that I'm crazy, it's that I really have no choice..."

How can Dawan survive the ambush of the Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara when he has taken the bait?

After repeated weighings, Daimaru found helplessly that the chance of Daimaru surviving being attacked by these two S-class rebel ninjas was extremely slim.

This is not about playing a game and completing quests to earn dungeons. The opponents are all programmed tools. If you feel unsure, the Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara will not show up.

But when they feel they are sure to capture or even kill them, does Daimaru have the trump card to escape?

To count on this possibility, it is better to hope that the fellow sand ninjas will discover the traces of Deidara and the Red Sand Scorpion in advance.

If the sand ninjas really had such ability, they wouldn't have been unable to catch the shadow of the Red Sand Scorpion back then.

The Sand Ninjas who have mobilized most of their elites to capture the Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara may feel that their chances of winning are not small. The biggest risk lies in whether Daimaru can lure the two out while saving their lives.

The compatriots are quite confident, but Daimaru is not so optimistic.

How to survive the first round of confrontation depends on your own ability.

Daimaru, who is also a puppet master and has rich experience, realizes that he cannot deceive the Red Sand Scorpion by pretending.

Therefore, Daimaru decided to turn the substitute puppet into his "real" self.

If you can't even deceive your own people, how can you possibly deceive the Red Sand Scorpion who is better at disguising?

"Okay, as long as you're happy..."

Kurama Yakumo sighed and formed a seal with his hands. In an instant, a dark shadow space enveloped the two of them.

Daimaru, who was not surprised, stretched out his hand, and a milky white light ball emerged and floated into the air. Kurama Yakumo reached out and took it. After a slight adjustment, the light ball turned into the shape of Daimaru sleeping with his eyes closed, and then was Pressed close to the body of the stand-in puppet.

"Extract part of your own memory, and then knead it into a false will to act as your agent, while you hide behind the scenes..."

Kurama Yakumo asked quietly,

"This is a difficult situation that is almost impossible to escape. I want to fake my death to escape the tribulation..."

"As expected, I can't hide it from you..."

It's hard to have the best of both worlds in this world.

Among the masters who can reach the pinnacle of the ninja world, which one is not a human spirit? Uchiha Itachi, who was notorious for massacring his entire clan, went undercover in the Akatsuki organization, but was still on guard everywhere.

The Red Sand Scorpion, who had lived incognito and as a "dead man" for more than ten years, was a senior, so it was difficult for Daimaru to hide his tricks from his eyes.

Taking "die once" as the default premise, the only way is to let the Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara enter the sand ninja encirclement with confidence.

"Don't die..."

Looking at Daimaru who was still smiling calmly with his eyes narrowed, Kurama Yakumo shook his head slightly.

"The limit of the Kurama family's blood inheritance is, after all, only Yin Escape. It can be given a body, but it cannot bring back the dead..."

Even if the false will is created, it is not created out of nothing, but Daimaru provides "materials" and molds it with the genjutsu Shinsei ability of blood successor Kaikai.

"Don't worry, I'm so afraid of death that I won't take risks easily if I'm not sure..."

As he spoke, Daimaru took out a stand-in puppet again, merged with himself, and disappeared into the air.

"Are you going to start pretending now? You obviously want to say a few more words..."

Kurama Yakumo said, patted the puppet Daimaru that fell on the ground with both hands, smoothed out the strange fluctuations in it, adjusted the matching of chakra and spirit, straightened it, and then closed the genjutsu space.

A few minutes later, "Daimaru" opened his eyes and looked at Kurama Yakumo who was looking at him with some strangeness.

"Is there something dirty on my face?"

"I'm just a little curious..."

"What are you curious about?"

Kurama Yakumo smiled but didn't answer.

Everyone may have different evaluations of others. Kurama Yakumo, who has only known a lot of people since he was young, is really curious about what Daimaru thinks of himself. The performance of "Daimaru" in front of him may be able to explain something. question.

"Forget it if you don't say it..."

It was just a trivial matter, "Daimaru" didn't take it to heart.

"What you said just now is that you spent a lot of money to rent my 'White Zetsu Clone'. Is that true?"

"Well?"

Kurama Yakumo's face froze, and he immediately understood something, and couldn't help but his shoulders began to shake.

"Sorry, let me laugh for a while first..."

"This... you are not fooling me, are you?"

"Daimaru" has an ugly face, and I really can't think of anything funny about him.

"Absolutely not!"

Kurama Yakumo suppressed his laughter and pretended to be serious.

"I just suddenly remembered something happy..."

"What happy thing?"

"secret……"

The little girl adjusted her attitude and said narrowly,

"As long as we can pass the exam, money is not a problem. Our Kurama family is so poor that all we have left is money..."

"It's amazing to have money..."

"Dawan" muttered with a sour taste, as if he couldn't bear the fear of others showing off their wealth in front of him, so he stood up awkwardly,

"Then it's settled. When my mission to the south is over, the deal will be completed! You have to prepare the money and pay it all in one go. You won't accept IOUs or installment payments..."

"Daimaru", who was fully thinking about how to negotiate an agreement with the big customer introduced by the enthusiastic jounin Centipede, left in a hurry.

After the room returned to calm, Kurama Yakumo, who couldn't help but smile, lazily lay on his side on the tatami, preparing to take a lunch break.

"You're such a big idiot. If you want help, just say so. I didn't say I wouldn't accept it. They also pretended to negotiate the price and made it look like a fair deal. Are you afraid that my entanglement will affect your relationship with Temari? 』

"Daimaru", who had the necessary memory, had quite a discrepancy between the key points and the facts. Such a cautious appearance reminded Kurama Yakumo of the first time he met Daimaru and captured him last year.

After the "Konoha Collapse Plan", Daimaru, who was escaping in a hurry, accidentally ran into himself, and that was the story that followed.

It was really thanks to the accident at that time that I was able to lift the confinement and gain the qualification to continue working hard for my dream of becoming a ninja.

"Come back soon, I really want to know what the big price in your heart is..."