As soon as Ningji appeared, the two sides' mentality was completely different.

Shikamaru breathed a sigh of relief.He knew that if Neji came, at least they wouldn't be violently captured.

Kankuro also knew.

With a sullen face, he turned around and looked at Neji: "The people in your team were fighting and destroying property in our Sunagakure. I want to take him to the security office. Why should I discuss it with you?"

"Is that right?"

Neji ignored him and asked Shikamaru.

Shikamaru sighed and gestured to the Sunagakures: "They were a little drunk and scolded Choji a few times. Choji flipped the table... It was indeed us who made the first move and also caused damage to the restaurant. .”

Kankuro said: "How is it? Did you hear it?"

Neji nodded: "That's right. You should definitely go to the security office."

Ino immediately became anxious when he heard this: "Neji!"

"However." Neji hadn't finished speaking, "As the captain, I will definitely go with them. Do you mind that? It's time to pay for the loss. It's time..."

Kankuro suddenly interrupted him: "Hyuga Neji, if you accept my challenge, let's have a spar. No matter we win or lose, I won't care about anything this time. How about it?"

Neji was startled: "Are you sure?"

"Of course." Kankuro said, "Don't underestimate me...I am different from two years ago."

"Very good." Neji nodded, "Then find a place and I will let you know that there is no difference between you two years ago and you now."

"..."

Kankuro clenched his fists, suppressing the anger of being despised.

"follow me!"

He took a quick step to leave the restaurant, and Neji said to Chouji and Shikamaru: "Pay for the broken things according to the price."

"I know..." Dingji lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, Ningji, for causing trouble for you."

"It's okay. It's okay to take action after being scolded."

Even though Neji didn't see it with his own eyes, he could guess that someone was calling Choji "a fat guy" or something like that.

Is this considered Choji’s reverse scale?In short, if you are scolded with such words, you will get angry.The effect was similar to what Xiao Li had done when he was drunk before. He also made a big fuss and almost demolished the store.

Without further words, he went to find Kankuro, who took him to an open area, which seemed to be a martial arts training ground. There were no houses around, only a few large abandoned stone pillars.

"Right here." Kankuro stood still and looked at Neji. "I want to defeat you and wash away the shame of the Chunin Exams two years ago."

"Although I appreciate your attitude very much, you really can't wash it away. Instead, it will add another shame."

"Hyuuga Neji, are you too arrogant?"

Kankuro didn't expect Neji to ignore him at all, and anger arose in his heart.

Neji said: "I am not arrogant, but I am speaking objectively based on the difference in strength between you and me. It's just that your eyesight is too poor to see the gap."

"This bastard..."

The surrounding Suna ninja couldn't help it, Kankuro was the most powerful puppet master among the new generation in the village, and yet he was looked down upon so much.

"Kankuro-sama! Use your puppet to defeat this guy!"

"His teeth are all over the ground!"

"Let him see the power of our Sunagakure puppet technique!"

Sunagakure's aura was so majestic that several people in Konoha could not match it.

Choji said worriedly: "Shikamaru, tell me, am I really going to embarrass Neji?"

"...You are thinking too much." Shikamaru shook his head, "Didn't your father tell you how strong Neji is?"

"No. Did your father say that?"

"Well, he told me that Neji may already have Kage level strength."

"Shadow level?!"

Shikamaru paused: "And... Dad said this to me two years ago. I really don't know how strong Neji is now. That guy Kankuro is completely asking for trouble."

"What are you two idiots mumbling about!"

Ino glared at the two of them dissatisfied,

"Sunagakure is cheering for the people in his own village! You don't know how to cheer for Neji." She said, and she let go of her voice and shouted loudly: "Ningji! Come on!! Defeat that guy with something painted on his face. Guy!!!”

Although her voice was loud, it was still drowned in the support of the Suna ninjas.

Shikamaru looked at her: "Don't you hate Neji?"

"That depends on the situation! Besides, he accepted the challenge for you and Choji."

"Well, that's true..."

Shikamaru looked embarrassed and opened his mouth to shout: "Come on, come on."

After shouting, Ino looked at her with disdain: "Didn't you eat?"

"..."

In the crowd of Sunagakure, Temari also rushed over and stood behind the crowd.

After she heard about this, she came over immediately, wanting to see Kankuro's challenge with her own eyes.

Like Kankuro, she believes that she has grown and become stronger in the past two years.Maybe after Kankuro finishes the challenge, she can challenge him again.A double whammy.

"Are you ready?" Kankuro asked.

Neji said casually: "Look at you. Just do it when you're ready. I'll let you fight for a while."

"What did you say?!"

"Although it's a bit cruel to say this, if I attack first, you will directly... lose."

"asshole!"

Kankuro couldn't stand Neji's arrogance anymore. He waved his hand and the puppet behind him fell down.

"Come on! Crow!"

quack!

The puppet rushed towards Neji, opened its mouth in mid-air, and sprayed out a poison cone. Its joints were disassembled at the same time, releasing poisonous smoke bombs.

In an instant, Ningci was surrounded by smoke and could not see anything clearly.

Arrogant guy...

Seeing that Neji really didn't resist, Kankuro became even more angry. He turned on all the crow's attack functions and rushed into the smoke to chop at it.

However, the feeling returned from the manipulation thread... did not seem to have cut flesh.

Immediately afterwards, the silk thread in Kankuro's hand softened.

"The line is broken?!"

Someone in the crowd exclaimed that many ninjas in Sunagakure practice puppetry. When they saw the thread softening, they knew it might be broken.

As if in response to these words, Neji calmly walked out of the smoke.

Poison gas, poison cones, knives and daggers... none of Crow's attacks caused any harm to him.

Kankuro gritted his teeth and threw out a seal scroll again.Want to summon a second puppet.

However, what happened in the next second stopped him completely.

"call!"

A group of figures rushed out of the poisonous mist behind Neji.

"crow!!"

The crow that Kankuro thought had been cut off from the control line actually started to move again. However, it did not attack Neji's back. Instead...

The crow is charging towards me?

Kankuro was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the crow open its mouth, and several green bright spots flashed past.

Oops!

Crow is Kankuro's puppet, so he naturally understands its mechanism.The green light is a high-density poisonous needle. Once it hits, the target's body will be quickly paralyzed.

"Be careful!!"

Someone in the crowd screamed, and Kankuro tried his best to dodge, barely avoiding it.But in the next second, Crow had rushed in front of him and chopped off an arm full of blades.

when!

Kankuro pulled out a kunai to block it, and yelled: "What's going on?!!"

He was obviously his own puppet, why would he attack him?

Could it be that Neji took away the control power, but...

Kankuro saw Neji through the gap between the crow's bodies. The latter stood motionless with his hands in his pockets.

How is it possible to control a puppet with that posture?

Moreover, there are no control threads connected to the puppet at all.

What exactly is going on!

Kankuro was confused for a moment and couldn't even use half of his strength.The crow puppet attacks fiercely and fiercely, and is simply stronger than what I can control...

This even gave Kankuro the illusion that the crow was alive!

This puppet is no longer controlled by humans, but... it's moving on its own!

This idea was so weird that it flashed through Kankuro's mind.And this moment of distraction gave Crow an opportunity to take advantage.

The bayonets on his legs suddenly unfolded and became erect, thrust out from bottom to top, and were about to penetrate Kankuro's throat!

Teng!

Temari, who was behind the crowd, jumped into the air to stop the attack.

But before she could, the bayonet had stopped.

tick...

Kankuro's cold sweat dripped from his forehead and slid down.

wow.

At this time, the crows seemed to have lost their souls, scattered on the ground, and changed into their usual appearance.

A puppet without a puppet master is just a piece of scrap metal.

Neji said nothing and walked towards Ino and the others.

When they were about to leave, Kankuro, who had been standing there for a long time, finally shouted unwillingly: "How on earth did you do it! Why can you control my puppet? Where is your thread hidden?!"

This was not only a problem for Kankuro, but also for the other Suna ninjas who were silent.

They all wanted to know how Neji did it.

The crow's movements just now were so sharp and cunning, it was simply terrifying.This kind of exquisite puppet manipulation technique would never be possible without five, no, ten, or 20 years of puppetry experience!

Neji is not even 20 years old now, and he grew up in Konoha. He has never been exposed to puppetry at all, so it is impossible for him to be better than Kankuro's manipulation skills.

However, the crow's performance just now said it all.

Neji paused for a moment and said without looking back, "I don't need silk threads to control the puppet."

After speaking, he left.

"No need for silk thread, how is this possible..."

"Just kidding?"

"What is it..."

The Sand Ninjas were so deep in thought that they didn't even care about Kankuro's failure.

Kankuro himself, on the other hand, felt that something deep inside his heart had completely collapsed.

Wireless control?Is there really such a thing?Even Chiyo-sama can't do this, right?Or is it connected by some kind of chakra thread that is invisible to the naked eye?But……

With a pop, Kankuro collapsed on the ground.

Like the crow beside him, he completely lost his strength and could hardly get up.

"Hey."

Temari walked up to him with a complicated expression.

"Is this giving up?"

"...Temari, my training in the past two years has been a joke. That guy is stronger than before, and he used my own puppet to defeat me without even having to take action himself."

"So what?" Temari bit her lip, "If you want to give up, just give up. Anyway, I have to persevere."

"You don't understand, Temari!" Kankuro raised his head suddenly, his eyes bloodshot. "If you are proficient in puppetry, you will know that what he just did should not exist at all. If you are a puppet master, then you should kneel in front of him now and beg him to accept him as his apprentice!!"

"Then just go and beg him." Gaara's voice suddenly sounded from above his head.

Kankuro was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and found Gaara who had arrived at some unknown time, standing on the top of the big pillar.

"I love Luo..."

"If you think puppetry is important, then ask him to accept you as his disciple. If you think your self-esteem is important, don't go. No matter what you do, it is better than sitting here and complaining... There are still many things waiting for you in the village. Let’s do it. Kankuro, don’t waste your time.”

After saying that, Gaara disappeared at the top of the pillar like the wind.

"What Gaara said makes sense, think about it for yourself." Temari also turned and left.

Kankuro sat on the ground for a while, stood up, put the crow away, and took a deep look at the direction Neji left.

“I will definitely be back!”

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