Doki Manipulation Technique
The afternoon sun casts its rays through the gaps in the branches of the dense forest.
Noisy, dazzling, and intense.
Just like the restless human heart.
The dappled sunlight cast shadows on the clearing in the woods, dividing the chaotic and messy area, which had just experienced a brief but intense battle, into irregular patches of color.
On the open ground, the corpses of the ninjas wearing Sound Ninja Forehead Protector were scattered here and there like broken dolls by naughty children.
Looking into the distance, the most striking feature in the center of the battlefield was a patch of ground cracked like a spiderweb. The girl's sudden stop with her foot had created a shallow pit in the solid earth, and cracks extended from the deep indentation in the center, covering an area of ten meters in radius. It was evident that the violent and unrestrained power that came with that stomp had caused even the earth, which bore the weight of everything, to burst open under its own weight!
The last three Sound Ninja corpses, charging towards the center of the battlefield, came to a halt before the cracked earth.
The icicles piercing through their bodies became their final support, sustaining their last charge. Dark red blood gushed from the wounds, splashing behind them and creating a fan-shaped patch of bloody mud. Their lifeless bodies stood silently, seemingly exuding an aura of heroic sacrifice.
The heroic spirit of charging forward despite facing a formidable enemy.
It was heroic, but utterly meaningless.
The aura of Ice Release still lingered in the clearing, bringing a chilling sensation to the restless, scorching air.
Or perhaps, this chill actually originates from these desolate and silent remains?
Broken ninja tools, scattered ice shards, and dark red human fragments lay intertwined in the grass. Blood pooled, overflowing, and then flowed into a babbling brook, its surface still and its phosphorescence dim. The blood-stained ninja tools, the haphazardly twisted bodies, and the wide-open, lifeless, dim eyes of the Sound Ninja seemed to be telling a silent story.
Is it a lament about the cruelty of fate?
Or is it the happiness of liberation?
The thoughts of the deceased are now unknown.
Such is the fate of ninjas. They are crammed into the battlefield like cannon fodder by their superiors, their lives devoured by this meat grinder, dying in battle, and then their bodies left to rot in the wilderness.
He died alone and silently in the deserted wilderness, with no one to collect his body or dig his grave.
Golden sunlight streamed down, illuminating the brutal battlefield. The dark, murmuring streams flowing on the ground were a somber color, casting a gloomy glow on those who saw them.
On a tall tree at the edge of the battlefield, a figure stood silently in the shadows, his back to the battlefield.
Sakura Haruno is the victor of this battle, or rather, this one-sided slaughter.
Having just completed a bloody massacre, her clothes remained spotless, and her pink hair swayed gently in the wind.
Silently turning her head, her emerald eyes coldly gazed at the cruel killing field she had created.
His breathing gradually calmed, and his strength was rapidly recovering. The boiling killing intent subsided as the battle ended, and the cold light in his eyes faded, leaving him as indifferent and calm as an iceberg.
After the battle ended, a jumble of emotions welled up inside me.
Despite some regret, the girl was acutely aware that she was no longer the peaceful and kind citizen she had been on Earth before her transmigration, someone who had never even killed a chicken.
To use such a brutal fighting style to kill enemies in order to conserve energy, and to be able to do all of this calmly, already makes him a qualified, ruthless ninja.
If you can't be powerful enough to change the world, then you can only let the environment change you. That's the rule of this world; if you don't want to be killed, you can only learn to kill cruelly.
I didn't have such a clear understanding when I read the manga, but after being transported to the real ninja world, I realized its cruelty. Although war has never stopped on Earth, the people of a certain great power can still enjoy peaceful days; but here, even living in the strongest country, Konoha, one can only choose between being an ordinary person sitting at home with the possibility of being killed at any time, or becoming a ninja and becoming the one who spreads killing.
Killing and being killed, what a crazy world.
What's even more disheartening is that one has to accept such a bizarre worldview in order to live like a human being.
The world is wrong, but we are the ones who need to correct ourselves.
Realizing this is bitter.
Then there was the anger that was buried deep in his heart and gradually accumulated.
Outraged by war that has caused countless tragedies, outraged by this distorted world!
I want to make changes, but I also know in my heart that I am not yet able to change anything. Until the very end, I will change everything and bring peace and happiness to the world and to myself.
Before that, they need to accumulate strength, find like-minded people who are dissatisfied with the world, and... kill even more people.
I glanced at the empty space one last time, pulling my scattered thoughts back to reality.
The girl pushed off with her feet, leaping towards the distant battlefield and disappearing into the depths of the forest.
On the other side.
Hinata's battle with Kabuto has completely fallen into Kabuto's control!
Kabuto's Ninjutsu is an improved version that combines Sasori's "Puppet Manipulation Technique" with Orochimaru's bio-modification technique.
A powerful Ninjutsu called "Doki Manipulation Technique"!
The so-called "puppet" is nothing more than a mechanical creation that imitates human beings.
The combat power of a puppeteer largely depends on the combat power of the puppet. The more sophisticated the mechanisms on the puppet, the more skillful, agile, and powerful the puppet will be.
Every puppeteer tirelessly pursues more sophisticated and powerful puppets. Every powerful puppeteer is also an extremely skilled puppet maker!
So, what is the most sophisticated and powerful puppet?
People.
No matter how sophisticated a mechanical creation is, it can never be more sophisticated than a human being made of flesh and blood.
No matter how powerful a puppet is, it can never be stronger than Kage Level powerhouse.
Therefore, top-tier puppeteers like Scorpion would even challenge the Kage of a village, just to kill him and use his corpse to create the most powerful puppet.
However, turning corpses into puppets would still be too wasteful for Kabuto.
Kabuto, who studied under three powerful Yakushi Nonō, Orochimaru, and Sasori—possesses exceptional talent in Ninjutsu. His Puppet Manipulation Technique, bio-modification, and Medical Ninjutsu, combined with his profound knowledge of anatomy, allowed him to successfully integrate these three elements, developing the powerful Ninjutsu unique to Kabuto Yakushi.
"Dead Soul Technique" temporarily makes the heart of a recently deceased person beat, giving the corpse the ability to move and manipulate it to attack enemies. This was the Ninjutsu Kabuto used when Kakashi and Sakura faced him in Sasuke's hospital room, and it was only the tip of the iceberg of Kabuto's Ninjutsu system.
"Doki Manipulation Technique" modifies and seals corpses in scrolls, which can then be summoned and manipulated when encountering enemies. It can be used for offense, defense, and to confuse the enemy. This is Kabuto's core Ninjutsu. It sounds ordinary, but its true essence lies in the fact that the modified corpses do not lose much strength. On the contrary, due to Kabuto's superb skills, their strength is greatly preserved, and in some aspects, they are even stronger than when they were alive!
What's even more terrifying is that the meticulously modified and preserved corpses in the scrolls didn't have completely atrophied brains. They could understand simple commands from Kabuto, attack enemies instinctively, and even use specific Ninjutsu! This drastically reduced the difficulty of manipulation, allowing Kabuto to instantly summon a large number of corpses, overwhelming enemies with sheer numbers and considerable quality!
The specially modified Doki are not weak in combat, especially the corpses of Taijutsu -type ninjas. Not only have they retained most of their combat instincts, but what's even more terrifying is that they don't feel pain or fatigue. They fight without any worries and are not even afraid of death.
They can fight continuously until their bodily functions collapse; they can exert 100% of their physical strength without caring about the damage to their bodies; they can trade injury for injury, or even their lives, without hesitation!
In battle, such corpses can sometimes be more threatening than living people.
This kind of Ninjutsu is also the source of Kabuto's confidence that his combat strength is no weaker than Kakashi's.
As a spy, he couldn't do too many attention-grabbing things, so what he lacked was simply the ability to collect and accumulate information.
The collection of corpses, especially high-quality corpses.
If he could obtain a complete corpse of Kage Level ninja, perhaps Kakashi, who is currently only an Elite Jonin, would be no match for him!
Even so, with his current resources, if he were to fight Kakashi, he could at least escape unscathed.
After all, others fight desperately, risking their own lives, and may suffer lifelong disabilities if they are not careful; but when you fight desperately, you are risking the lives of corpses, and all you lose are the corpses you collect. Even if you are wiped out, you can collect more later and make a comeback.
At least until the enemy has an overwhelming advantage in combat power over the corpses he manipulates, Kabuto's Doki Manipulation Technique, even if not "invincible among his peers," is extremely troublesome.