Naruto Puppet Master

"What's the result?"

"It is said that Kurama Yakumo was seriously injured and fell into a coma. The monster slave who was either a senior warrior or a jounin more than ten meters away died tragically on the spot." Keiko, the mother of the dead soldier, said.

"Oh! Are the losses heavy?" Shizun Aburame chuckled and said, "Three people attacked me last night. They forced me to break the seal myself. Do you think they were a group? "

"This." The two people who heard this looked at each other with cold sweat on their foreheads and then said: "This subordinate deserves to die. I will definitely find them."

Seeing the trembling looks of the two of them, Aburame Shizun said casually: "I don't mean to blame. After all, I owe my current good condition to those three guys."

"What I'm asking is, do you think the three guys who attacked me are also slaves of monsters?"

"You must know that although the strength of those three guys is not very good, they still have their own characteristics."

"Looking back now, if my true strength is not much different from theirs, I seem to be very restrained by their abilities!" Aburame Shison thought thoughtfully.

To be honest, the fact that youkai forces would even think of capturing Kurama Yakumo surprised Aburame Shisun, especially since they did not hesitate to use so many lurking Anko slaves, and they would definitely attack him as well. Aburame Shizon felt incredible.

Although since the passage to another world was opened, the blood moon replaced the original bright moon hanging high in the sky, and the evil spirit spread throughout the Chi Yuan world, countless talented beings have embarked on the path of evolution because of the evil spirit and have become thousands of people. One of the thousand monsters.

However, the annual demonic disasters directly wipe out more than [-]% of the demons and ghosts, and the remaining [-]% are hunted by the temple priests from time to time. As a result, the real demons that have been living in the wild demon forest for many years are Very few.

Especially the more active ones, as long as they appear in the eyes of humans, it is almost impossible to survive for more than one or two years unless they have directly cultivated to the realm of monsters that can rival the supernatural realm and evolved into the form of a half-orc. Deadline.

And those who can really have the power and influence to arrange Anko's slaves among human forces like Konoha Village are definitely old demons who have evolved into half-orc form.

And they are powerful and have a wide influence, but the big reason why they can still survive is because these old monsters who are not inferior to humans in wisdom will never take the initiative to attack humans, and even most of them will not. Taking the initiative to get close to the human base is the real reason why these old monsters can survive the demonic disaster and avoid being hunted by the temple.

Between the position of demons and the position of humans, these old monsters have chosen neutrality.

Therefore, when he heard that these monsters who had never directly interfered with the human base would actually attack Kurama Yakumo, Aburame Shisun not only became interested in Kurama Yakumo, but also became interested in the three people who were obviously targeting him. The enemy has doubts.

"What on earth could make those guys go to such great lengths to attack Kurama Yakumo and me?"

In fact, Aburame Shizun's thinking was completely wrong at this time. It was true that the three people in the red copper armor were targeting him, but saying that they were slaves of the monster was open to question.

However, before Aburame Shizun could think of anything, a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Here we come." At Aburame Shison's signal, the deceased's mother said loudly as she walked quickly toward the door.At the same time, Aburame Shison and the dead man's father also stood up again and took their seats on the table beside them.

"With a creak" the door opened.

Then an ANBU followed the dead soldier's mother, Keiko, and walked in.

"Aburame Shison, Hokage-sama asked me to tell you that due to unexpected circumstances, there will be changes in the Demon Hunter's assessment."

"Three days later, all candidates who have registered for the assessment will take a make-up exam. The rules of the assessment are ring battles." Anbu came in and said directly to Aburame Shizun.

"Is this a battle where numbers are directly checked?" Aburame Shizun said with a slight frown.This change was obviously not within his expectations.

"I thought it was already decided. Why would there be such a change? The Third Hokage's tone just now clearly didn't sound like he was giving in."

"Who can change the will and decision of the Third Hokage?" As he thought about it, a gloomy face appeared in Aburame Shizun's mind.

"It seems that it's him in the eighth chapter, Danzo Shimura?"

"No, it's an arena challenge. At that time, Mr. Hokage will select the three candidates with the strongest strength and potential and the best performance based on your performance in yesterday's half-time assessment. The top three will be directly determined, and then the other candidates will be selected. Candidates who failed can freely challenge to determine their strength ranking."

"But although those outside the top ten can challenge by leapfrogging, once they get within the top ten, they can only challenge the top candidate first and cannot challenge by leapfrogging." Anbu explained in a deep voice.

"It's to avoid wheel fighting." Aburame Shison thought in his mind.

"Based on my performance last night, I'm afraid I can't compare to it. Now it depends on whether Kurama Yakumo's performance after being attacked will be included in the assessment. But it's hard to say whether she can participate as promised, but in any case, she is not the first. That’s second place.” Aburame Shizun thought to himself.

"As long as we leave a good third party as a shield, we can avoid trouble to a large extent. In the end, we only need to deal with one more opponent." Aburame Shison thought confidently: "Challenge me alone. I don’t believe that any of the candidates will be my opponent.”

"I understand. Please reply to the Third Hokage and ask him to rest assured that I must be number one."

Looking at the confident face of Aburame Shisun, although the ANBU did not know his true strength, he was sent by the Third Hokage to inform Aburame Shisun that he himself belonged to the Third Hokage. Therefore, this ANBU also knew the Third Hokage very well. Looking at Aburame Shisun, otherwise he would not have been allowed to explain clearly to the other party.

"I will tell Hokage-sama."

"Farewell!" After saying that, the ANBU turned around and left.

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Time passed, and in the blink of an eye it was the morning three days later.

In Konoha Village, in the lively early morning, the mortal streets are full of bustling scenes of hawking. On the streets, gorgeous and majestic bicycles are driving in a row on the central road.

"What day is it today? There are so many businessmen, celebrities and masters going out."

Because of the demon disaster, today's continent is full of human forces and neutral and chaotic monster forces and evil forces fighting each other.

Therefore, the country's highly centralized and huge

Except for the Red Sand Empire, all the forces have completely disappeared. Except for the people from the empire, all the forces exist in the form of ninja bases.

As a military base that is like nails, firmly nailed on the map and always controls the power of hostile forces within its sphere of influence, ordinary mortals without direct combat effectiveness in the Ninja Village Base are naturally subject to great restrictions.

Even in a great ninja village base like Konoha Village, the living area of ​​ordinary mortals does not exceed [-] kilometers, and ordinary people rarely leave this safe area, whether it is because of the prohibition of ANBU ninjas, or Because of the dangers outside.

And this is the first time such a large-scale collective action has occurred in this dangerous world!

"You don't know! I heard from my relatives that today the Hokage seems to have held a cultivator assessment competition in the village, and invited many famous and powerful adults to participate!"

"Ah! Can we go then?"

"Stop your wishful thinking. We commoners have a chance! Only adults have the chance to be invited to the village."

"Damn the world, I haven't stepped out of my living area in six years. It's like being in jail."

"Ai, bear with it! It's better to go to jail than to lose your life."

"Why don't brothers join the long-distance caravan? Even though it's hard work there, you can leave here with the caravan and see the outside world."

"Bah, if you want to fool me, I won't die! Do you think we don't know that the mortality rate of workers in long-distance caravans is as high as [-] to [-] percent?"

"That's right, it's better to live than to die! That kind of work is not something that normal people can do."

"Yita, let's go look for work somewhere else!"

"Yes, brother."

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Today, Aburame Shizun prepared everything early in the morning and set off towards the assessment venue that was announced early in the morning.

Although we did not pass through the living area of ​​ordinary mortals along the way, we also saw the majestic vehicle frames driving out of the living area and the ANBU teams escorting them along the way.

"Have we actually invited many representatives of the traveling caravan here today? It seems that the Third Hokage wants to confirm it at once!" Aburame Shison thought to himself: "It seems that he is really under a lot of pressure. ! The only way to get the three Hokage advisors to acknowledge this matter is by making a formal noise?"

Three days were enough for Aburame Shizun to figure out the many changes that had happened before.

For example, the Third Hokage wanted to directly confirm that he was a demon hunter that day, and the subsequent challenge proposed by Shimura Danzo on the basis of fairness. Even later, Shimura Danzo secretly persuaded two Hokage advisors, and the three of them jointly put pressure on the Third Hokage. , hoping that the Third Hokage would confine themselves to Konoha Village as they thought, the proposal was also heard by Aburame Shizon.

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In the dark underground space, in the base of the original Konoha root, in a small room with a few candles lit, Shimura Danzo, who had just received the news of the Third Hokage's action, angrily hit the ground with his wooden cane and said: "This time Sarutobi went too far and actually directly invited the people from the traveling caravan and so many big businessmen and masters in the village. Does he want to make the matter completely public?"

"Oh, maybe we pushed too hard!" said Hokage advisor Koharu.

"Sarutobi is very determined this time!" Mito Kadenyan said.

"He is determined, are we going to give up?" Danzo Shimura roared: "He has already missed once, and I can't see him making a mistake a second time."

"There was no room for redemption for what happened with Orochimaru. Although Sarutobi, as a teacher, has to bear a great responsibility, although I regret not having done this earlier, I also know that I have grown up in the face of it. Orochimaru, we actually don’t have many robust solutions to solve each other’s problems.”

"But it's different now. Aburame Shisun hasn't fully grown up yet. We still have time to make up for our past regrets."

"Although his current strength is very good, even amazing, after all, he is only six years old, and his mental experience cannot be that high!"

"And I don't want to cultivate him into a tool root, but I hope to keep him in Konoha and cultivate him so that he can have a sense of belonging to Konoha. Am I wrong?"

"Even if Sarutobi doesn't trust me and wants to train him, I won't object for the sake of Konoha, as long as he can stay. Am I wrong?"

Facing the angry roar of his old friend Shimura Danzo, Mito Kaden said in a deep voice: "Yes, we also support you on this point, but it is too late now. Sarutobi has already notified many famous and prestigious people. There are many people, many of whom are even members of the traveling caravan wandering around the village."

"This assessment has been completely exposed. There is no way we are tampering with it. Otherwise, the empire may no longer be able to turn a blind eye."

"For today's plan, we can only win today's game with dignity." Koharu said: "How is Kurama Yakumo doing?"

"hateful."

Shimura Danzo first cursed angrily secretly, and then said: "Kurama Yakumo was rescued yesterday, and I sent someone to take her to the assessment venue this morning."

"We should have arrived at the assessment venue by now."

"Well, didn't she recover after sending it?" The two Hokage advisors who thoroughly understood Aburame Shisun's strength from Danzo both knew Aburame Shisun's strength and potential, otherwise they would not have agreed with Danzo of Will Village. idea.

But precisely because they knew it, in the eyes of the two of them, the so-called assessment there today was actually just a competition between Kurama Yakumo and Aburame Shison.

"Not only are the two the youngest, but they are also the strongest among this group of people. Even if there are hidden dark horses among the other candidates, they don't think they have the strength to compete with Aburame Shisun and Kurama Hachi. Dark horse above the clouds.”

Therefore, when they heard that Kurama Yakumo seemed to have not fully recovered, at this moment, the two Hokage advisors felt a little regretful that they had not helped Danzo Shimura put pressure on the Third Hokage.

"If only it had been a week, Kurama Yakumo would have been able to fully recover with the help of the energy crystals. It's a pity."

"It's okay. Although Kurama Yakumo has not fully recovered, I gave her a special potion that will prevent her from being affected by the injury for half an hour and allow her to fully display her strength. Come."

"There won't be serious side effects! Although I hope Aburame Shizono can stay, if Kurama Yakumo is destroyed, the price will be too high." Mito Kadenen said with a frown.