Chapter 8: The Legendary Puppeteer

"Those weapons are poisoned!"

Kosuke felt the paralysis of his body returning to his brain.

"Damn, I thought it was just some dead things, careless!"

Kosuke secretly regretted it.

But the wooden people have no ability to think, and they are still faithfully carrying out their orders.

Expelled invaders.

As a result of destroying a wooden doll himself, Kosuke even saw a new doll.

He is as tall as a normal person, and his limbs, facial features, and body shape are all the same as those of a real person, and the materials are not all wooden.

If it weren't for the fact that there were so many wooden figures around him as a foreshadowing, Kosuke wouldn't be able to directly confirm whether this was a real person or not.

I saw that the simulated puppet came to him in an instant, and kicked away Kosuke, who was paralyzed.

Kosuke, who was flying in the air, clearly saw those wooden puppets gathering at his landing point, and raised his sharp weapons towards Kosuke.

Even Kosuke didn't expect that it should have been an easy investigation, but now he even had to put his own life into it.

"I've really, I've always been so reckless, a failure, Lord Nidaime, Lord Vorkage."

Kosuke closed his eyes in resignation.

"Bang!"

As expected, I didn't feel the pain of being pierced by a sharp object, but instead felt my whole body smashing against the wooden figure.

Kosuke slowly opened his eyes, and his puzzled eyes saw the wooden people around him who had lost their mobility and were paralyzed on the ground.

"Fortunately, the old man, I came back in time and didn't cause a big disaster!"

It was the last word Kosuke heard before he lost consciousness, and the old man with an angry face he saw in his sight.

When I opened my eyes again, I was greeted by an unfamiliar ceiling.

Realizing that he was lying in an unfamiliar room, Kosuke quickly got up, and the paralyzing feeling on his body had disappeared, which gave him the confidence to protect himself again.

But before he could push the door open, he heard the roar of the old man in the courtyard outside.

"Tell me, who put those dangerous things on the wooden figurines for your practice?!"

"Isn't this more and more foreigners on the other side of the port? We felt we needed to be prepared to defend ourselves against the bad guys, so we just-"

"Shut up! Is this something you guys have to think about? I had a word in advance, but outside, I can't shut you down what you want, after all, you are not my disciples. ”

"But as long as you are with me, I will not allow you to disobey my orders with me!"

"But, Kinmatsu-sama, in case someone-"

"No in case! Even if there is, the old man, I will die as soon as the lonely old man dies, and there is nothing to regret! ”

The old man's anger seemed to dissipate somewhat, and he could only hear him sigh and speak:

"I know what you guys think, but I don't want to see anyone die because of my craft, that's not my intention, I've already gone wrong once, so I don't want to go wrong again this time!"

"If there are any of you involved in this matter, go back, you don't have to come here again, and I won't allow you to step here again."

The old man's tone was filled with a hint of helplessness and depression.

Kosuke listened to everything that happened outside, and although he didn't see the picture, Kosuke had a new understanding of the old man's image.

While Kosuke was still thinking to himself, the door was pulled open from the outside.

Kosuke was startled and looked up to find that it was the owner of the house who had walked in.

"Are you awake? Today's incident is the fault of my old man, I hope you don't go to their trouble, they are still young, I believe that after today's incident, they will realize the problem. ”

Before Kosuke could open his mouth and want to apologize for his forcible break, the old man opposite took the lead in apologizing.

This made Kosuke's words stuck in his throat.

Stunned for a moment, Kosuke hurriedly reacted, leaned over and said:

"It's my reason that I entered your house without saying hello, I'm so sorry, Kinmatsu-sama!"

The old man's surname is Konmatsu, which he inquired about from other people, and as for the name, it seems that the old man doesn't want to make it public, so the people of the country of Wave also call him by his last name.

"I know I'll be suspected by you sooner or later, and I don't want to hide it, as for the things in the courtyard of this house, I don't mean to keep it secret, I thought that if you want to check it, I'll let you go, but I didn't expect them to secretly install weapons from me, it's really annoying to me!"

The old craftsman Konmatsu was still a little angry, and his chest rose and fell violently, which made Gusuke find that the other party's physical fitness was far above that of ordinary people.

"Whew-" The old man calmed down before he spoke to Kosuke again.

"Since you have suspected that you want to carefully investigate my residence, then simply solve it now, if you have any questions you want to ask, I can answer you, old man."

The old craftsman Konmatsu sat upright and said.

Seeing this, Kosuke admired the old man's upright style of doing things, so he simply followed his wishes.

"I've heard that you, like me, didn't live in the Land of Waves from the beginning, so where and what did you do before?"

Kosuke asked.

"Hah! Don't be so tempted, I see, you want to investigate my past, right? ”

"Then I'll tell you directly, but I hope you can still help me keep the content that shouldn't be disclosed secret, I think you can understand what I mean, and this is also for the good of the villagers."

Seeing Kosuke nodding, the old man talked about his past in a tone of meaning and nostalgia.

"My name is Konmatsumon Saemon, and before I came to Ha no Kuni, I used the name Monzaemon, and rarely used the surname that I inherited from the puppeteer family."

Seeing that Kosuke seemed to think of something, Konmatsudo Saemon smiled.

"I hope you'll still call me by my last name like the villagers in the future, the name Monzaemon, or the title, has been abandoned by me in the Land of Wind."

"You are the pioneer of the puppet technique that is important and vigilant in the Konoha scroll?!"

Kosuke remembered the name he had heard before.

"I was in the past, I was, I am now, I am not."

"Shamon has betrayed his agreement with me, and I have had to use my skills to kill for the first time. Even though I knew that puppetry would definitely be used in battle, I agreed to his request for cooperation in order to make a breakthrough in the path of a puppeteer, and I also practiced chakra. ”

"But I never expected that he would even break the bottom line that I wouldn't kill with my own hands in the end, and now that I think about it, he should want to completely tie me up with Sand Shinobi! It's a pity that he still underestimated the determination of our puppeteer. ”