The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 212 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
Not long after, Hideki returned to the orphanage with the three children, carrying Nono, who had not yet woken up.

"Hideki, you guys are finally back!"

"What about the other kids?"

"What happened to Nono? Is his life in danger?"

Matt Dai, Kelly, Kemp and others were waiting anxiously at the door, and as soon as they saw him, they all asked about the situation.

Hideki smiled bitterly, asked someone to send Nono to the infirmary, and then briefly explained what had happened.

Seeing everyone's worried faces, Hideki comforted them:

"Don't worry too much."

"Whether they are simply kidnapping children or coming for our orphanage, the children's lives should not be in danger for the time being."

"Most importantly, I already know how to find the children."

Probably to reassure everyone, Hideki smiled and explained:
"Don't forget that Atla took Jerry out today."

"In order to prevent our orphanage's big star from getting lost, its collar is made of precious chakra metal and has many functions."

"Today, I had to go out, so I turned off the function that restricted it from going out, but the function for locating it was still working."

"Although I can't lock its location because it's too far away."

"But fortunately, we now have sufficient materials. As long as we modify the receiver, we should be able to expand the reception range a lot."

"And now the entire police department has been mobilized to conduct an investigation."

"Once they narrow the search area down to a certain size, I'll be able to use the receiver to find Jerry and the kids."

After hearing Hideki's clear plan, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But no one planned to just wait.

Dean Kemp decided to mobilize his connections to find out the situation and see if he could find the children as soon as possible.

Might Dai and the children from the security team also wanted to go out to look for them, but were persuaded by Hideki to stop them in case someone took advantage of the chaos to attack the orphanage.

So they patrolled the orphanage as if they were injected with chicken blood, not letting even a mouse go.

Aunt Kelly turned and strode towards the kitchen, saying that everyone had to eat a full meal so that they would have the strength to win the battle.

Hideki heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing this, and asked everyone not to disturb him, saying that he wanted to concentrate on modifying the receiver, and then he returned to his room.

However, no one knew that Hideki did not actually start working after returning to the room.

His body movements suddenly became a little stiff, and he slowly walked to the bed and sat down.

Then he grasped his left palm with his right hand and pulled hard, but he actually pulled his own palm out...

呲!
Blood gushed out from the broken wrist and palm, but Hideki didn't care at all.

He shot out a few chakra threads from the fingers of his right hand, put them into the palm of his left hand and fiddled with them for a few times before putting them back on his left wrist.

After rotating his palm several times in a manner that violated the limits of the human body, Hideki began to mutter to himself:

"Sure enough, this puppet clone needs to be improved. Its operation flexibility is too poor and it cannot be used in actual combat at all."

"And just coming back here costs me one-tenth of my chakra. I can't afford this kind of consumption."

Yes, the Hideki in this attic room at this moment was not his real body, nor was he his shadow clone, but the puppet clone that he had been researching and developing recently.

How to control puppets at a long distance without using chakra lines has always been one of Hideki's research and development goals.

There are basically two methods. One is to remotely control the puppet through chakra waves like Nagato.

However, this is similar to wireless charging technology, and the consumption of chakra will increase exponentially depending on the distance.

Although chakra capacitors can be configured in the puppet to alleviate the problem, there are still problems such as chakra interference and signal delay.

Perhaps only someone like Nagato, who has both plenty of chakra and top-level chakra conducting materials like the black stick, is qualified to use it in actual combat.

Therefore, Hideki's temporary research and development direction is the second one, which is to imitate the robots in science fiction stories and directly give the puppets self-awareness.

This sounds like it would be much more difficult than wireless control, but it is not impossible to achieve in the ninja world.

After all, one only needs a B-level Shadow Clone Technique to create a shadow clone that has the same memory as the caster and can think independently.

And Hideki's brainstorming technique was made possible thanks to the magic of chakra.

Therefore, Hideki's idea is to combine the Shadow Clone Technique with puppets to create a puppet clone that cannot be broken by a single blow and can perform tasks independently.

But this is actually not as easy as it sounds.

There are ninjutsu that combine the Shadow Clone Technique with external objects.

For example, water clones, rock clones, thunder clones, and even bird clones.

But they all transformed external objects into a part of the clone's flesh and blood, completely losing their original characteristics. At most, after the clone was broken, they could use the original characteristics to exert their effects.

In fact, Hideki had done related research before, and was even able to transform specially made clay puppets into rock clones.

But he still couldn't solve this problem. Unless the clone was broken by someone or it was released by itself, the mechanism in the puppet could not be activated at all.

Of course, being able to harm the enemy through the mechanism after it is released is already a pretty good puppet ninjutsu.

But this is not the effect that Hideki wants after all.

But that's true. If it's really that easy to achieve, wouldn't it make the Sand Village, which has been researching using chakra strings to control puppets for generations, seem too stupid?
Therefore, it was not until he returned to Konoha as a teacher and got the opportunity to systematically study sealing techniques that Hideki gradually came up with new ideas.

Since turning the puppet into a clone doesn't work, just let the shadow clone act as the driver to control the puppet.

In fact, there is a precedent for this in the ninja world, that is, a Jinchūriki like Kushina.

Because if the Jinchūriki cannot suppress the tailed beast, the tailed beast can use its own chakra to forcibly control the Jinchūriki's body.

This is exactly the same effect that Hideki was pursuing.

Moreover, the Shadow Clones and the Tailed Beasts have many similarities, and both are chakra life forms in a sense.

Therefore, sealing this chakra in the puppet before the shadow clone is formed is the fundamental principle of Hideki's puppet clone technique.

According to his guess, in the original work, Minato and Kushina were able to meet Naruto in his spiritual space, probably using a similar method.

However, no matter how lifelike the puppet is, it is not a real person after all and has no spiritual space.

Therefore, how to create a carrier to carry the shadow clone's chakra, how to let the shadow clone maintain consciousness inside, and then control the puppet through chakra, became a problem that gave Hideki a huge headache.

Fortunately, the Sandaime had previously given him permission to read sealing techniques below level B.

After reading about several B-level sealing techniques in a targeted manner, Hideki finally made a breakthrough and had a basic idea of ​​creating a sealing cube as a carrier of shadow clones.

After installing it on his previous dummy puppet, it became the current test version of the puppet clone.

However, if you want to achieve better results, or even use it in actual combat, you probably have to use more advanced sealing techniques.

Fortunately, now Hideki only wants to rely on him to confuse the enemy, so that the main body can go from light to dark and have the opportunity to act in secret.

As long as he stayed in the room under the pretext of modifying the receiver and showed up occasionally, no one would become suspicious too quickly.

However, in order to save chakra consumption, the puppet clone decided to enter a dormant state, and its eyes began to lose their brilliance.

Before falling asleep, he murmured to himself one last time:
"It's up to you now, Master. I hope the children are safe."

……

As for the whereabouts of Hideki's real body, we have to start from not long ago...

After asking Takaki to look after Nono and her two younger sisters, Hideki and Fugaku went outside to continue their previous conversation.

Fugaku asked:
"Hideki, from your tone, it seems that there is a way to find the whereabouts of the children quickly."

"If it were normal times, it would probably be a little more troublesome."

"But it was their bad luck that Jerry was kidnapped as well..."

Hideki smiled playfully, and then a square floating cannon flew out of his sleeve, and then with a bang, it turned into a blue and white cat.

"Tom!"

Fugaku said subconsciously in surprise, causing Hideki to look at him sideways.

Fugaku coughed a few times to cover up, and Hideki also considerately pretended nothing happened and continued:
"Fugaku, you should know about Chakra waves."

"In fact, similar to electromagnetic waves, chakra waves can also spread to a very long distance as long as there is no interference."

"Usually, when we say chakra dissipates, it just means that the chakra is difficult to control because of the distance or excessive dilution. It does not really disappear."

"And in order to prevent Jerry from getting lost, I specially added a function to emit high-frequency chakra waves to his collar."

"So as long as we use the chakra wave direction-finding device built into this Tom to receive it, we should be able to easily determine the direction where Jerry is."

"If we continue this cycle, we will find the whereabouts of the children sooner or later."

"But considering the consumption of Jerry's chakra, it will only fire once every fifteen minutes."

"And now it's almost time..."

So both of them stopped talking and started watching Tom's performance.

I saw it standing up, holding its tail and exploring around seriously.

Fugaku really wanted to complain, shouldn't this device normally be installed on the ear?
Fortunately, Tom soon discovered something. When he pointed in a direction, the hair on his tail stood up...

Seeing this, Hideki snapped his fingers, then smiled like a villain and said:
"Bingo! I caught your tail..."

(End of this chapter)