Caw~
Caw~
Two or three seagulls soared happily through the blue sky while, below them, a medium-sized ship sailed steadily south.
It was still the same cabin as before, but its original appearance was now completely unrecognizable.
After receiving Araki's permission, Sasori of the Red Sands immediately got to work.
He first took two storage scrolls from his robes.
With two soft pops, the smoke dispersed, revealing a large pile of strange tools and instruments inside the cabin.
Sasori took out another scroll and released two humanoid puppets.
Then, the fingers of his left hand twitched, shooting out two chakra threads that attached themselves to the puppets and controlled them as they began arranging the space.
Although Araki could not see the chakra threads, he could clearly see that only two of Sasori's fingers were trembling slightly.
"Is this Elder Chiyo's legendary secret technique, the Ten-Finger Technique?"
Araki was secretly amazed. He had not expected Sasori to have already mastered Elder Chiyo's greatest secret technique at such a young age.
By that logic, if Sasori were given top-tier puppets like the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets now, his combat strength might already surpass Chiyo's, right?
"Mm, it isn't actually that difficult."
While dividing his attention between controlling the two housekeeping puppets, Sasori answered casually.
"..."
Araki fell silent. Fortunately, he was not much worse than Sasori himself, and he did not practice Puppetry Technique. Otherwise, Sasori really would have shown him up.
In a sense, Sasori truly was an unparalleled genius born with Sunagakure's accumulated fortune of a century behind him!
The two puppets worked quickly. Before long, an exquisite workbench appeared in the center of the room, surrounded by several mysterious instruments that even Araki could not recognize, arranged in a neat yet scattered pattern.
Sasori stood up and waved his