Konoha's Frozen Vortex

Chapter 181 The Legendary Puppeteer

"Those weapons are poisoned!"

Kosuke felt the numbness from his body returning to his brain.

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

Gu Jie regretted secretly.

But the wooden figurines don't have the ability to think, they are still faithfully executing their orders.

Repel intruders.

Because he destroyed a wooden doll, Kosuke even saw a new doll that appeared.

As tall as a normal person, limbs, facial features, body shape, all movements seem to be the same as real people, and the material is not all wood.

If there were not so many wooden figures around as a foreshadowing, Gu Jie would not be able to directly confirm whether this is a real person.

Seeing that the simulated doll came to him in an instant, it kicked away the paralyzed Gu Jie.

Gu Jie, who was flying in the air, clearly saw the wooden puppets gathering at his landing point, and raised his sharp weapon towards Gu Jie.

Even Gu Jie didn't expect that it was supposed to be an easy investigation, but now even his own life was involved.

"I really, have always been so reckless and failed, Master Nidaime, Master Uzukage."

Gu Jie closed his eyes resignedly.

"Oh!"

As expected, I didn't feel the pain from being pierced by a sharp object. Instead, I felt my whole body hitting the wooden dummy.

Gu Jie slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw with puzzled eyes were the wooden people around him who had lost their mobility and were lying limp on the ground.

"Fortunately, old man, I came back in time and did not cause a catastrophe!"

These were the last words Kosuke heard before losing consciousness, and the old man with an angry face in his sight.

When he opened his eyes again, what caught his eyes was a strange ceiling.

Realizing that he was lying in a strange room, Gu Jie got up quickly, and the feeling of numbness in his body had disappeared, which gave him the confidence to protect himself again.

But before he opened the door, he heard the roar of the old man in the courtyard outside.

"Come and tell me, who put those dangerous things on the wooden man for you to practice?!"

"Isn't this the more and more foreigners at the port? We feel that we need to have some preparations to defend against bad guys, so we-"

"Shut up! Is this something you have to consider? I said something beforehand. Outside, I can't shut up what you think. After all, you are not my disciples."

"However, as long as you are still here with me, I will not allow you to violate my orders here!"

"But, Chimatsu-sama, in case someone—"

"There is no chance! Even if there is, the old man, I will die as soon as I am a lonely old man, and I have nothing to regret!"

The old man's anger seemed to dissipate a little, only to hear him sigh a long time, and said:

"I know what you think, but I don't want to see someone die because of my skills. This is not my original intention. I have already made a mistake once, so I don't want to make a mistake again this time!"

"Among you, those who participated in this matter, go back, you don't have to come here again, and I will not allow you to step here again."

There was a trace of helplessness and despair in the old man's tone.

Gu Jie listened to everything that happened outside. Although he didn't see the picture, Gu Jie had a new understanding of the image of the old man.

While Gu Jie was still thinking about himself, the door was pulled open from the outside.

Gu Jie was startled, and looked up to find that the owner of the house had walked in.

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

Before Gu Jie opened his mouth to apologize for his forced intrusion, the old man opposite him took the lead in apologizing.

On the contrary, Kosuke's words got stuck in his throat.

After being stunned for a moment, Gu Jie quickly reacted, leaned over and said:
"It was my fault. I entered your house without saying hello. I am very sorry, Chimatsu-sama!"

The old man's surname is Jinsong, which he found out from other people. As for the first name, it seems that the old man doesn't want to make it public, so people in the land of wave also call him by his last name.

"I know that I will be suspected by you sooner or later, and I didn't want to hide it. As for the things in the yard of this house, I didn't mean to keep it secret. I thought that if you want to check it, it's up to you. Thinking of these brats secretly equipped with weapons without telling me, it really makes me angry!"

The old craftsman Chimatsu was still a little angry, his chest heaved violently up and down, but Gu Jie found that the other party's physical fitness was far above that of ordinary people.

"Huh—" the old man calmed down before speaking to Gu Jie again.

"Since you have become suspicious to the point where you want to investigate my residence carefully, let's settle it now. If you have any questions, I can answer you, old man."

The old craftsman Chimatsu sat down and said.

Seeing this, Gu Jie admired the old man's open and aboveboard style of dealing with things in his heart, so he simply followed his will.

"I heard that you, like me, did not live in the Land of Waves from the very beginning, so where were you before and what were you doing?"

Kosuke asked.

"Ha! You don't need to try a little bit, I understand, you want to investigate my past, right?"

"Then I will tell you directly, but I hope you can help me keep the content that should not be made public. I think you can understand what I mean. This is also for the benefit of the villagers."

Seeing Gu Jie nodded, the old man talked about his past with a nostalgic tone.

"My name is Chimatsu Monzaemon. Before I came to the country of Nami, I used the name Monzaemon. I rarely used the surname I inherited from the puppeteer family."

Seeing Kosuke seeming to think of something, Chikamatsu Monzaemon smiled.

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

"Are you the creator of the puppet technique in the Konoha scroll?!"

Gu Jie remembered the name he had heard before.

"The me in the past, yes, the me now, no."

"Sramana betrayed his agreement with me, and I had to use my skills to kill people for the first time. Even though I knew that puppetry would definitely be used in battle, I was trying to obtain it on the road of puppet master. Breakthrough, agreed to his request for cooperation, and also practiced Chakra."

"But I never expected that he would even break my bottom line of not killing people with my own hands. Now that I think about it, he probably wants to completely tie me to Sand Ninja! It's a pity that he still underestimated our puppet masters. determination."

(End of this chapter)