There was no trace of the bird in the sky, and I, long since flying.

The Red Sand Scorpion finally walked out of the darkness that might have swallowed him according to its original trajectory.

Scattered all over the desolate Shayin Village, on the endless sand dunes that rise and fall from far and near, on the extremely flat carpet composed entirely of yellow sand, there are suddenly discordant pits the size of glass balls.

Immediately afterward, one of the pits turned into two, as if subjected to an extremely dense rain of shurikens, and the sand dunes were unrecognizable in the blink of an eye, and there was a splash of flying sand unwillingly, and then there was no sound at all.

"It's the rainy season." Before a drop of rain fell, it was shattered by the long hair of the scorpion like a hedgehog and the whip.

It's really raining, not Uehara's water escape attack.

"Hey, Uehara, shall we dodge?" The scorpion frowned, and no one around responded to him.

The bean-sized raindrops crackled down, and it hurt too much to hit the face, and the scorpion was quite embarrassed to hold its head and quickly leave the training ground.

"But," looking up at the rain curtain, the rainy season is inexplicably coming," time flies so fast. The scorpion thought to himself.

Meaningful time, of course, will pass quickly.

Curled up in the shadows of the room, recalling those painful pasts over and over again, as if it were the whole meaning of life, the time when you didn't even glance at the scenery outside the window, it was painful and long and almost suffocating for the scorpion.

Almost instantly, at the inadverence of Scorpion, Chiyo, Uehara, and all of Scorpion himself, the Scorpion grew up.

Running at an almost instantaneous speed, the scorpion ran out of the training ground as fast as possible, so he didn't care about Uehara, he was willing to be drenched in the training ground, just go with him. Remembering the good idea of playing tricks on Uehara, the scorpion couldn't help but be happy.

The scorpion, who was getting happier and happier, rushed all the way to the cold drink shop, and then, his expression froze. No way, some guy should be in the rain...

"Bastard Uehara, why are you here?!" The scorpion walked behind Uehara and slapped Uehara on the shoulder. The scorpion's good mood suddenly vanished, and he became puffy, completely forgetting that he had just wanted to play the same trick on him.

"O," Uehara motioned for Scorpion to sit down and pushed his cold drink in front of him, "It's raining all of a sudden, so I don't want to stay at the training ground anymore." “

"So I left."

"Why didn't you tell me if you were going to end your training?" The scorpion snatched Uehara's cold drink and removed the lid, and took a few sips like uncles drinking beer, "You definitely want to sneak away and let me get wet in the rain alone, bastard Uehara!" ”

Open your mouth bastard, shut your mouth bastard, this little devil is getting more and more rude. By the way, when did the scorpion become a little bastard? Uehara frowned and thought about it, and found that things were not simple.

Maybe it was because the training was too tiring, and after that, neither Uehara nor the scorpion spoke, and all that was left was the sound of the scorpion's teeth creaking and fighting with the ice.

(No, it's not.) After a long period of practice, the scorpion suddenly realized that he must have missed something, and his eyes quickly became sharp, and his gaze quickly swept around.

Other than that, he didn't make any other moves, and even the sound of shaking the ice cubes in the cup was deliberately louder, in order not to attract Uehara's attention.

(Three empty cups) The scorpion's turning gaze lingered on the cup in front of Uehara, (...) Will it be someone else's invitation? )

The scorpion hesitated, self-doubting.

(However, the puppet class is practicing puppetry, so they don't have much free time to come here.) ）

(Is it a bug?) It's also unlikely, the guy got sick. Also, the bugs don't like vanilla very much. ）

His gaze shifted from the three empty cold drink cups to Uehara, who lowered his head and pondered, and the scorpion's movement of shaking the cup couldn't help but slow down, and he showed a look that saw through everything, (The three cups are all vanilla, this is what Uehara likes.) ）

(It's impossible to drink three cold drinks in such a short time.) The scorpion became more and more determined and confident, (so Uehara, you bastard, slipped over early, right?) )

Puppets have extremely powerful offensive and defensive capabilities, and even if you ignore the most terrifying and deadly poison of puppetry, the firepower of the simplest hidden weapon released by the puppet is enough to suppress a ninja squad.

So, what is the most fatal weakness of puppetry?

Both Scorpion and Uehara believe that the fragile puppeteer is the easiest flaw for the puppet to be defeated compared to the sturdy puppet.

The most effective of all the tactics of fighting the puppeteers is to get rid of the entanglement of the endless puppets and perform the decapitation tactic.

Yes, for the puppeteer, it would be very fatal if the enemy was completely hidden and could not find the slightest trace. This means that the powerful firepower of the puppet instantly loses its room for catharsis, and at the same time, there is a danger of being defeated by each one.

So, after the discussion between the scorpion and Uehara, the relative targeted practice began. The first is to design a more reasonable puppet, so that the puppet can shoot a rain of hidden weapons without dead ends, so that the hidden enemy will still be restrained everywhere.

Second, using perceptual ninjutsu to restrain stealth is a very effective method.

The puppet talent of the scorpion does not need to be questioned, the transformation of the puppet does not take much energy from him, and today, the scorpion and Uehara are training in stealth and perception ninjutsu. Uehara uses stealth to hide, and Scorpion uses a very rusty perceptual ninjutsu to find it, it's that simple.

It was supposed to be like this, but Uehara, a bastard, slipped away from the training ground halfway, no wonder he couldn't be found with perceptual ninjutsu.

The scorpion was about to die of anger, and he put down the cold drink cup, ready to teach Uehara a lesson.

After the cup was lowered, the scorpion hesitated again. Suspiciousness is not the character of a scorpion, but in the year-long relationship, Uehara embarrassed him too many times.

(If I were to say that Uehara slipped away in the middle of the game, he would definitely say, ah, only a little bit of a moment.) Scorpion's mind raced, (You have to be sure of the exact time this guy slipped away, you can't give him any excuses.) )

Every time you train, you want to try your best to overcome each other and surpass yourself, and that's what the practice is all about.

Uehara was just thinking about things, he didn't notice it at all, and the scorpion quietly removed the straw and went to pick it up again.

(How do you know when this guy slipped away?) Unleashing ninjutsu will inevitably leave traces on the body, and Uehara obviously does not have the ability to completely hide the traces. )

(This guy has the worst ability to escape, so the traces should be more obvious.) )

(In this practice, he released a total of three water escape ninjutsu.) ）

Scorpion tried to recall every scene on the training ground in his mind, and memorizing the characteristics of most conventional ninjutsu was a very boring job, which was Uehara's own habit, practicing and training together, and this habit naturally affected Scorpion.

And now, this good habit has really helped the scorpion.

(The first technique, which should be about 10 minutes after the training starts...) The art of hydrating a thousand books? The scorpion hesitated, his gaze fixed on Uehara's hand, and looked and looked. This technique is small in scale, and the caster uses a high-density water escape chakra thousand condensation to attack the enemy. On the training ground, Uehara used this technique to test it, and he only condensed a thousand books, so it was unlikely that he would get his sleeves wet.

(The second technique, about one hour and forty minutes, the strange power of the water fist...) Uehara's invention of the water escape ninjutsu, similar to the rock fist, uses a large amount of water to wrap the fist as a supplement to the physical arts, which can not only protect the arm, but presumably the rock, the strong fluidity of the water flow gives the water fist a series of powerful destruction methods such as rotation, blasting, tearing, etc.

(I think this technique will leave marks on the body.) After pondering, the scorpion smiled faintly, remembering that three days ago, Uehara complained that the technique always wet his sleeves and was too slow.

With the scorpion's understanding of Uehara, three days is not enough for Uehara to master a completely unfamiliar technique.

The cuffs of Uehara are intact and there are no traces of water.

This couldn't be more obvious.

(Plus the third technique, the Water Spiral Pill, you guy detonated the water storage tower with water, and the water flow covered the entire training ground.) ）

However, the scorpion observed, and there was no sludge on Uehara's shoes.

This also means that at least before the third ninjutsu, Uehara left the training ground with a clone instead of the main body.

Some judgments are done.

"Uehara, you seem to have broken the rules." Scorpion kindly reminded, "At least an hour and forty minutes before the start of training. That is, before the third Water Escape Ninjutsu, you left. ”

"You're talking nonsense!" Uehara was awakened, he was in a hurry, and slapped on the table angrily, "I left only when it rained." "Can you admit such a thing? There must be quibbles.

"Oh," the scorpion tilted his head, looking like it was so, "Well, I'm curious, Brother Uehara." ”

The scorpion pushed the three empty cups in front of Uehara with bad intentions, "I don't understand, how did you finish three cold drinks in one minute." ”

"Also, you're not proficient in the Strange Water Fist technique, and..."

…

Finally, I finally let this little ghost get scared once. Uehara looked at the scorpion with a smile, and watched him list the evidence of Uehara's slippage one by one in a logical and coherent manner, and Uehara also laughed more and more happily.

"So Uehara, stop arguing. But you, why did you slip out of the training ground? No wonder I couldn't find you anymore. ”

"Slip away?" Uehara shook his head, "You don't have a rule that you have to stay in the training ground. ”

"Moreover, your perceptual ninjutsu failed to distinguish between the ontology and the doppelganger, and you don't even know when I slipped away," Uehara shook his head, looking at the scorpion with regret in his eyes, "Scorpion, it seems that you really don't have the talent to perceive ninjutsu." ”

"Nonsense!" The scorpion is dissatisfied. This stubborn little ghost, he thinks that no matter how difficult the technique is, as long as he puts in enough effort, he can master it.

"Also, I didn't slip away halfway through." Uehara smiled mysteriously, "It was my doppelganger who went to the training ground at the beginning, and I didn't go to the training ground at all today." ”

“… Yes?! The scorpion was amazed. It's just a clone, and if you had tried it with an attack earlier, you would probably have found out. However, before training, it is likely that it is deliberately stated that if you want to train perceptual ninjutsu together, the efficiency of using offensive ninjutsu will be disrupted, so that's why...

It seems that this is what Uehara said about the mindset and thinking misunderstanding, Scorpion thought. He has an important harvest again.,Offensive ninjutsu,In fact, it's also a super easy to use perceptual ninjutsu.,Suspect that there is an enemy in a big tree.,First throw a hundred detonation charms over.,Wait for the detonation charm to explode.,If someone screams "ah~",It means that there is an enemy there.,If there's no ah.,It means there's no enemy there.,Perception is complete.。

As for the powerful enemies, they are immune to explosion damage and still hiding in the trees... No way, the tree has already blown up.

"Scorpion, it's time for me to go." Uehara lifted the prosthetic leg of his left arm, which was full of silver and full of sci-fi colors, and smiled, "Thank you for your puppet arm, it's super easy to use." “

"Huh?!" Surprised, his mouth could not be closed, and he stared blankly at Uehara, and the scorpion's mouth opened even wider.

There was a flurry of panic and confusion for no reason, "That, that," Scorpion was speechless for a moment, and he kept tugging at his hair with his hand, "I almost forgot, you are Iwa Shinobi." ”

"Oh, that's right." The scorpion's somewhat depressed mood suddenly became high, "It's about to take the middle ninja exam, Brother Uehara, can you wait for me to become a middle ninja before leaving?" “

"What, are you afraid of being eliminated?" The child's thoughts, Uehara could see through at a glance, and he laughed, "Don't worry, the scorpion is so powerful, you will definitely be able to pass the exam successfully." “

"It's not me!" Scorpion muttered, "It's the puppet class kids, they also have to take the exam, I can't help them." “

The scorpion is a very proud fellow, even if he is still a very small little ghost, he really can't say anything about being reluctant to let someone leave and begging to stay longer.

He found just the right reason - to help the stupid imps of the puppet class pass the middle ninja exam together.

"Alright, then let's go back after witnessing the scorpion become a real ninja."

Hearing that Uehara was going to stay for a while, the excited expression couldn't hide it on the scorpion's face, and the scorpion almost jumped up.

"Then, I'll go back first, Brother Uehara." Scorpion shook his fist vigorously, "I should have prepared for the exam earlier." ”

Watching the scorpion whizz by like the wind, he almost knocked down the new customer.

It wasn't until he had not gone far that the scorpion suddenly stopped, and he secretly looked back, and his eyes happened to meet the eyes of Uehara who was smiling at him in the window.

Uehara nodded in acknowledgment, his eyes full of encouragement.

The scorpion nodded vigorously, he turned around, and waved his fist vigorously at Uehara to say goodbye to the afternoon, "Brother Uehara, today's cultivation should be counted as my victory, right?" You can't fool me now! ”