The Fourth Kazekage's rise to power was a major event for the entire shinobi world, but with the current situation so turbulent and unrest simmering within every nation, the villages merely sent letters of congratulations, just as they had during the recent change of Raikage. Sunagakure did not hold any formal ceremony either.
At almost the same time, the disappearance of the genius puppeteer was quietly suppressed within Sunagakure. Aside from the small number of people from the Land of Wind, Land of Fire, and Land of Water who had been directly involved, not many others knew the true inside story of the Sasori of the Red Sands incident.
And at this moment, Sasori of the Red Sands had already taken up the position of Kirigakure's Minister of Technology. His Puppet Workshop was also being expanded, and that place would be the future site of Kirigakure's Technical Research Institute.
This position was newly established. Kirigakure had never had any department specifically responsible for technological research and development before.
After all, a ninja's ninjutsu was honed in battle. If one shut oneself away to conduct research and development, the results might not necessarily come faster than developing techniques while carrying out missions.
An even more important reason was that Kirigakure had previously had neither projects worth researching nor talent in this field.
Take Konoha, for example. Before, it had the massive pile of forbidden techniques left behind by the Second Hokage that could serve as research projects; later, it had research geniuses like Tsunade and Orochimaru, though Tsunade's research talent was limited solely to the field of medical ninjutsu.
But Kirigakure was different.
First, because there were far too many Kekkei Genkai clans of every size in the village. Everyone already had their hands full just studying their own bloodlines, so