The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 139 Prison Break
Time passed, and soon nearly two weeks had passed.

At night, in the orphanage dormitory.

"Twirl around."

"Wall around."

"360-degree front somersault Thomas jump followed by a triple-and-a-half sideways spin."

There was a cute little brown mouse on the table, doing various fancy moves under Atla's instructions.

A circle of little girls with loving eyes were gathered around the table, clapping and cheering for every move of the little mouse.

"Oh, Jerry is so cute!"

"I also want to have a little mouse like this."

"Atla, can you lend it to me for a few days?"

Listening to everyone's chatter, Atla smiled and stroked Jerry's head with his index finger, praising him:

"That's great Jerry, everyone likes you very much."

"Squeak!"

Jerry squinted his eyes comfortably, enjoying the caress from his master. His cute appearance caused the little girls to scream in surprise.

After a long while, everyone gradually changed the topic.

"Atla, we got our salary a few days ago and we want to go to the village to buy some things on the weekend. Do you want to go with us?" a girl asked.

Atla shook his head and said, "Have you forgotten what Brother Hideki said?"

"There have been a lot of bad guys near the workshop recently, and they seem to want to sneak in and steal things."

"So it's best for us not to go out casually for the time being. If we need to buy anything, we can ask Izka and the others for help."

Many girls sighed in disappointment.

That being said, what’s the point of shopping if you can’t take your time shopping and compare prices?

However, Jerry, who was chewing a biscuit on the table, suddenly froze in place, and even the biscuit in his hand fell onto the table.

"Workshop... sneak into... steal things..."

As if a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind, Jerry... no, it was Rat's eyes that suddenly became clear again.

"Fuck! I lost my self-awareness again!"

"How many days have passed this time?"

"Damn it! If this continues it's really going to be bad..."

The Rat paced back and forth on the table anxiously.

The transformation technique it is performing now is to temporarily change its body into the form of a mouse, so it can sneak in here without any flaws.

However, as a price, its thinking consciousness will be affected by the mouse's pitiful brain capacity, gradually becoming blurred, and even losing memory and self-awareness.

Therefore, when the Rat transformed into a mouse to perform tasks, he would find an opportunity to transform back to his original form for a while every one or two days to reset his consciousness.

But it never expected that this black-hearted orphanage was so cruel. After so many days, it didn't even give it any chance to be alone!
Every morning at dawn, I have to go to the training room to run on the wheel. If I am lazy, I will be fed chili pills. It is simply a life worse than death.

When it comes back from exercising at night, it is already exhausted. If it closes its eyes carelessly, it will be the next morning when it opens again. It has no time to steal information or change back to its original form.

And when he thought of this, the fatigue that the Rat had accumulated today burst out immediately, making him drowsy and his eyelids began to fail to stay open again.

"No! If I fall asleep now, I don't know if I'll have the chance to wake up next time. I must find a way to not fall asleep."

The Rat gritted his teeth and held on, trying hard not to fall down.

Unfortunately, misfortunes never come alone, and Atla also noticed its abnormality.

"Ah, little Jerry is sleepy again, so go to bed early, you still have to work hard tomorrow."

As Artela spoke, he gently picked up Jerry with both hands, put him on a mini bed in the pet cage, and covered him with a small quilt.

As soon as Zishu's body sank into the soft bed, he almost lost consciousness.

Fortunately, the willpower cultivated over many years of ninja career allowed it to move its little paws hard, trying to pinch its body in the quilt and use the pain to maintain its consciousness.

Although based on its previous experience, this trick probably wouldn't have much effect.

I'm afraid that this time, the opportunity to wake up will once again be in vain...

However, at this moment, the little rat's paw inadvertently reached into the gap between the bed and the wall, and seemed to touch something...

It felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu in this situation, so it forced itself to be alert and secretly took the thing out to have a look.

Then the rat's eyes suddenly opened as wide as copper bells.

It's chili balls!

To be precise, it was a tiny bit of crumbs of the chili balls!

Why does this thing appear here?
After a moment of doubt, the Rat quickly came up with an idea.

Is it...

It gently licked the crumbs of the chili pills.

hiss! ! !
Zishu clutched the bed sheet tightly, resisting the urge to roll around on the bed, fearing that the little girls who were still chatting in low voices not far away would notice anything unusual.

After a while, it finally recovered.

It’s really spicy!

But…it’s also very refreshing!

The Rat, who had temporarily driven away the sleepiness, had a clear mind and was filled with emotion.

Unexpectedly, the chili pills that usually caused it so much pain would actually become its life-saving straw now.

As long as you lick this thing every once in a while, you should be able to stay clear and make it until the late night when everyone is asleep.

However, such a small amount of crumbs might not be enough, so the rat reached its claws into the gap again to feel around, and found some more chili pill crumbs.

"As I expected, it's no accident that these crumbs appear here!" "It must be that every time I was awake during the day, I would secretly leave some chili pill crumbs and bring them back to hide here."

"It seems my condition is more serious than I thought."

"I must have thought of this plan many times, but now I don't even remember it..."

Thinking about how countless of himself had carried out this plan one after another, but had been forgotten in the corner of memory, Rat couldn't help but feel a sense of tragedy in his heart.

It was as if countless past selves were shouting at my present self:

"Go! Over our dead bodies!"

"I will, my past self. Your sacrifice will not be in vain!"

The Rat made up his mind secretly in his heart, and at the same time a tear rolled down from the corner of his eye.

Maybe it's because of the spiciness...

……

Late at night.

The orphanage, which was bustling during the day, was now shrouded in silence, with only the chirping of insects in the nearby grass being the only sound.

In Atla's room, on the desk, in the iron cage, a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly opened!

——It’s not that the rat suddenly unlocked the Sharingan, it’s just that the double torture of sleepiness and the abnormal spiciness made its eyes bloodshot.

Regardless, its purpose has been achieved.

"The time has come!"

The Rat calculated the time second by second and determined that it was now the fourth watch, the time when humans sleep the deepest.

In other words, it is the best time for it to execute its plan.

Without further ado, it tiptoed to the door of the iron cage, easily pulled out the bolt from the outside with its long tail, slowly pushed the door open, and then quietly slipped out.

"—Jerry, backflip."

Suddenly Atla's voice was heard.

The Rat was horrified, but his body reflexively did a backflip on the table...

Snapped!
The sound of the floor falling, which is usually not obvious, seems particularly harsh in the quiet room.

"hiss--"

The Rat couldn't help but stand there with his teeth bared, not daring to move an inch.

After a long while, when there was no other movement in the room, it dared to turn its head to look.

Atla was sleeping soundly, and it was obvious that what he said just now was just dream talking.

"Damn it, he's playing tricks on me even in my dreams. What a horrible child."

The Rat would like to take some revenge now.

But it was worried that Atla would talk in his sleep again. If he said those difficult moves, all the children in the room would probably be woken up by him.

So it didn't dare to stay for long, and quickly jumped along the table leg to the ground, then jumped along the wall to the window, and flowed out from the slightly opened window like liquid.

Then it slid down the drainpipe to the ground, first looked in the direction of the workshop, then turned around and ran out of the orphanage.

Although I really want to complete the task quickly and leave this damn place.

But before that it must transform back into human form and reset its consciousness.

Since chakra is required for transformation, it is very likely to be detected by the perception barrier here, so it must be transformed far away from here.

Fortunately, the experienced Rat has made all the necessary preparations...

……

A moment later, in the forest near the orphanage.

The Rat transformed into a black shadow and came to a peculiar willow tree. He first looked around, and then gently pressed an inconspicuous knot on the tree.

Then a root under the willow tree arched up slightly, revealing a small gap extending underground.

The Rat looked around again and saw nothing unusual before crawling into the gap.

Then the roots slowly closed, as if nothing had happened.

The rat wandered around in the crevice for a long time before entering a relatively spacious underground cave.

Although it is a cave, there are all kinds of things placed inside: clothes, food, weapons, medicine, and even books. It is obviously a secret supply point.

Every time the Rat goes on a mid- to long-term mission, they will set up a supply point like this near the infiltration site, just in case.

Then, a muffled cry of pain began to echo in the basement.

The squeaking of mice gradually turned into the wailing of an adult male, which was creepy to hear.

After the cry of pain, a figure casually put on a piece of clothing, then picked up the snacks and dry food beside him and started eating them.

After taking a big gulp of Coke, the Rat said with a sense of relief:
"Hiccup - I'm finally alive!"

"How can this be repaired! Damn Kimura Hideki! Damn Mighty Dai!"

"After completing the commission from Master Danzo, I will definitely make you two look good..."

As soon as the Rat turned back into human form, he began to chatter to himself incessantly, as if he wanted to pour out all the words that had been held in his heart.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a male voice far more pleasant than his suddenly sounded in the basement:
"So it's Danzo's doing again. What an uncreative answer."

The sound coming from behind made the rat feel a chill rushing from its tail vertebrae to its brain, and its whole body shuddered.

clack clack...

The rat looked back stiffly like an unoiled machine, and indeed saw the figure it least wanted to see at this moment...

Hideki Kimura!
(End of this chapter)