Artificial Humans' Natural Energy

Faced with Deidara's scorching gaze, so intense it seemed about to throw off sparks, and that fanatical cry of kindred appreciation, Menma's expression did not waver in the slightest.

He merely drew another ordinary kunai from his ninja tool pouch, one without any Explosive Tags tied to it, and casually flipped it between his fingers, tossing and catching it as the cold gleam of metal flashed icily through the air.

Menma's gaze passed straight over Deidara, whose eyes were filled with the fervor of someone who had found a kindred spirit, and landed on Ōnoki Ku and Kirara.

"Artificial humans... and not the crude half-finished products from the Boruto era," Menma analyzed inwardly.

In his memory, during the Boruto era, out of paranoid concern for the Shinobi World's future, Ōnoki had secretly created artificial humans such as "Ku" and "Kirara." Although they possessed special abilities, they also had serious flaws, required frequent maintenance, and were extremely limited in both range of movement and endurance. They were more like unstable experimental products.

But the two before him had not only followed Deidara all the way to Konoha and taken part in the Forest of Death exam that had lasted for several days, they had even reacted swiftly under an explosion of that scale just now and used Dust Release to defend themselves. Their stability and degree of completion far surpassed the creations from twenty years later in Boruto.

What concerned him even more was that, under the extremely subtle perception of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, the chakra flow within Ku and Kirara, aside from the peculiar unnatural emptiness and machine-like precision unique to artificial humans, was also faintly entwined with an extremely thin trace of natural energy.

"Fine," Menma thought, a cold glint flickering in his eyes as the